Melissa F Murphy

Melissa F Murphy

January 17, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Merger Doctrine—Avoiding Piecemeal Appeals in Multidistrict Litigation

Do individual plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation (MDL) involving thousands of individual claims against a multitude of different defendants have an automatic right to appeal when all their claims are dismissed with prejudice, but only as to a subset of defendants?

By Terry M. Henry and Melissa F. Murphy

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