Legal Opinion
Movie Systems, Inc. v. Abel
District Court, D. Minnesota
Decided September 9, 1983No. Civ. Nos. 3-83-621, 3-83-645, 3-83-644, 3-83-643, 3-83-646 to 3-83-648, 3-83-651 to 3-83-656, and 3-83-670 to 3-83-674PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
DEVITT, Senior District Judge.
Plaintiff, a distributor of television entertainment programs, claiming unlawful pirating of its microwave signals, has attempted a shotgun action against 1795 individual party defendants by filing 18 similarly worded actions with approximately 100 defendants allocated to each filing.
The attempted filing of these actions with such an inordinate number of party defendants in each raises an issue of proper joinder of parties under Rule 20, has created unmanageable administrative problems *130in the clerk’s office and has occasioned unfairness,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- The Nassau County Association of Insurance Agents, Inc. v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
- Insull v. New York World-Telegram CorporationDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1959
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- DIRECTV v. LoussaertDistrict Court, S.D. Iowa · 2003
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