Overlapping Remedies
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371286.00029
Abstract
When many parallel lawsuits arise from the same event, they create the risk of overlapping remedies – multiple redundant awards of punitive damages, for example, or conflicting injunctions issued by different courts. The standard response is to aspire to once-and-for-all resolution, relying on procedures that aggregate claims and preclude further litigation. This chapter examines why two such procedural devices – class actions and multidistrict litigation (MDL) – do not generally rule out overlapping remedies. It then reviews proposals for an alternative approach, one based on the concept of ‘concurrent remedies’. This approach can deflate redundant punitive damages and avoid a clash of injunctions in contexts where parallel litigation is unavoidable – including where the standard procedural devices fall short.
Disciplines
Business Organizations Law | Law | Litigation
Recommended Citation
Bert I. Huang,
Overlapping Remedies,
Research Handbook on Corporate Liability, Martin Petrin & Christian Witting (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing
(2023).
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