Terms

Question 1

What type of lawsuit classification does Zantac fall under?

Answer 1

MDL (Multi-District Litigation)

Question 2

What are the types of Cancers that Zantac has caused?

Answer 2

Bladder, Breast, Colorectal/Intestinal, Esophageal, Gastric, Kidney, Liver, Lung, Pancreatic, Prostate, Death

Question 3

Who is the Defendant?

Answer 3

The person defending or denying a lawsuit

Question 4

Who is the Plaintiff?

Answer 4

The person who brings a lawsuit to action

Question 5

What is a litigation?

Answer 5

Formal court process to enforce/defend legal rights in a lawsuit

Question 6

What are the steps of a litigation?

Answer 6

1. Pleading Stage
2. Answer or Motion to Dismiss
3. Discovery Stage
4. Dispositive Motion Stage
5. Issues of Law
6. Trial Stage

Question 7

What is the pleading stage?

Answer 7

Begins with a complaint. A complaint is a doc filed by the plaintiff laying out the allegations against the defendant.

Question 8

What is a Motion to Dismiss?

Answer 8

A request to a judge by the defendant, asserting that even if all the allegations are true, the plaintiff is not entitled to any legal relief and thus the case should be dismissed.

Question 9

Discovery Stage

Answer 9

Longest Stage of Litigation. Facts and info are exchanged.

Question 10

What are the most common types of Discoveries

Answer 10

1. Request for Production
2. Interrogatories
3. Request for Admissions
4. Depositions

Question 11

What is a Request for Production?

Answer 11

Part of the Discovery Stage. Where one party makes a list of documents/other things they’d want to receive by the other party.

Question 12

What is an Interrogatory?

Answer 12

Part of the Discovery Stage. One party writes questions, and the other answers them.

Question 13

What is a Request for Admissions?

Answer 13

Part of the Discovery Stage. One party will write a statement to the other party, who will either admit or deny.

Question 14

Depositions

Answer 14

Part of the Discovery Stage. When a lawyer sits down with a witness to a case and asks them questions. This is a pre-trial testimony that’s given under oath. There must be a recorder present.

Question 15

What is a Dispositive Motion Stage

Answer 15

A motion which can end a part (all) of the lawsuit.

Question 16

Motion for Summary Judgement

Answer 16

means that there are no longer any facts in a dispute through the discovery process

Question 17

What are Issues of Law

Answer 17

Resolved by the judge & come to a ruling & make a decision. The judge can also not agree to the motion and say there’re “issues of fact” and send the case to trial.

Question 18

What is Ex-Parte

Answer 18

Motion for orders that can be granted w/o waiting for a response from the other side. Ex: Temporary Restraining Order

Question 19

What is a Motion

Answer 19

Not pleadings, but requests for the judge to make a decision on a certain matter/issue before trial begins.