Consolidation or Severance (Rule 31)

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1. What common feature does Rule 31 section 1 identify for actions pending before the court that may be heard or tried joi…
2. What purposes support separate trials under Rule 31 section 2?
3. May Rule 31 section 2 authorize a separate trial of a particular issue rather than an entire action?
4. Two pending negligence actions before a competent court concern the same accident and substantially overlapping witness…
5. A counterclaim involves proof likely to prejudice fair consideration of the main claim if tried together. The court fin…
6. A court orders two cases to be tried together solely for common evidence and expressly preserves their separate charact…
7. Court X has lawful jurisdiction over one action but lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over another proposed case. A par…
8. Explain Rule 31’s common-question consolidation authority and the considerations that prevent it from being an automati…
9. Distinguish consolidation for trial that preserves separate actions from actual consolidation that merges them. Why sho…
10. A judge finds that separately trying a counterclaim or a discrete issue would improve convenience and avoid prejudice. …
11. Does Rule 31 require both a common factual question and a common legal question in every case?
12. May a court coordinate only some common matters rather than merge every issue in the actions?