Verification and Certification Against Forum Shopping

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1. Under Rule 7, Section 4, what is the proper factual basis for a required verification?
2. What period does Section 5 specify for reporting later knowledge of the same or a similar action or claim?
3. When an affiant acts on behalf of a party, what does Rule 7 require regarding authorization?
4. A plaintiff knows of another pending action involving the same issues. Which certification approach follows Section 5?
5. A pleading must be verified, but its affidavit states only that allegations are true on 'information and belief.' What …
6. Counsel signs an initiatory pleading under Section 3, but the plaintiff supplies neither the required sworn forum-shopp…
7. After filing a sworn certification, the plaintiff learns that a similar action is pending. The plaintiff reports it aft…
8. Nora is the sole individual plaintiff and has personal knowledge of the allegations in a pleading required to be verifi…
9. Sole plaintiff Omar has not commenced any action or filed a claim involving the same issues and knows of none pending. …
10. A proposed combined verification and forum-shopping certification uses only 'information and belief,' omits the no-hara…
11. Under Rule 7 Section 4, must every pleading be verified even when no law or rule specifically requires it?
12. A required verification is legally defective under Section 4. How does the rule treat the pleading?