Every aspect of this nationwide initiative has been
carefully conceived and planned for years...
The following is just a quick way of providing a glimpse into the
plan.
(FROM AN EMAIL, WITH NAMES REDACTED TO PROTECT THE
PARTIES' IDENTITIES...)
2. Federal or state jurisdiction -
well, I guess it is true that this question is not really discussed on the
website. The answer is that they will all be filed in federal (US District)
courts, per the individual Districts where each principal plaintiff resides
(many states have more than one federal District...). Furthermore, I will also
update the website to answer this question, obviously asap... Good call
for <name redacted> for pointing out this "unknown". (It's known
to the existing Coordinators, but obviously to noone else - which must be
rectified immediately, of course!!!).
3. Complaint not reviewable -
again, <name redacted> is technically correct that an already
finished complaint is not available for online review. Obviously, the actual
complaints themselves *cannot* be completely finished until the
individual-per-state principal plaintiffs, each Governor name/address, each
AttyGeneral name/address, substitutions of individual
State/Commonwealth/Territory/etc names, and similar items, are merged into the
model template complaint, to produce the 51-odd-plus separate complaint packages
(there are supporting papers/pleadings that go along with each filing, like the
Civil Cover Sheets, Civil Appearances, Summonses, Demands for Jury Trials, and
etc.). However, and again, the above new webpage explaining a large sampling of
the arguments and etc. has now been provided for everyone to rest assured that
this initiative is a *most* serious endeavor... more than anyone has probably
ever seen come along before... at least since desegregation in the late 50's and
early 60's...
6. "No way to pre-prepare
pleadings" - again, because these are all quickly
customized/individualized complaint packages generated from a single model
package set (see # 3 above), <name redacted> mistakenly passes judgment
before he understands the process... And, again, <name redacted>
apparently does not totally comprehend the avenues, possibilities and aspects of
federal litigation, especially federal "multi-district"
litigation. We fully expect the various states' attorneys general, caught
somewhat off-guard by such a nationwide uproar, and not wanting to even possibly
take the chance of working against each other in any litigation respect, will
immediately jointly file for "multi-district-litigation" jurisdiction, which is
an entire panel of (seven, at least four concurring) federal judges over
all of the cases combined into one great big case, and which, if (and it will
be) ordered so, will be to our preference anyway. Further, any one or more
federal judges may move for MDL jurisdiction themselves. Even if none of
the state attorneys general or federal judges file for MDL jurisdiction,
we already plan to do so ourselves, anyway... because, this is
what we want to happen (so that no single judge will
be making important decisions on his or her own...), and have
already planned on it to be so soon after the original
filings...
Also, it is VERY important to
remember that each individual classaction suit will be designated as a
"three-judge" suit.
I must take issue with his comment comparing his
own little private action as a "real lawsuit", when it can easily be discerned
that he has never seriously invested the amount of time, careful
planning, and thorough research to fully envision how formidable a
genuine "real" lawsuit actually
is...