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      "id": 102707,
      "date": "2001-03-01",
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      "title": "Multidistrict Jurisdiction Act of 1999",
      "summary": "The Multidistrict Jurisdiction Act of 1999,  H.R. 2112 , 106th Congress, as passed by the\nSenate, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, would overturn a Supreme Court ruling by\namending 28 U.S.C. \u00bf 1407. The present plain meaning of the statute requires a federal district court\nthat has been deciding pretrial matters in cases consolidated from various district courts to transfer\nthe cases back to the those courts for trial. This legislation would allow the court, which is familiar\nwith the facts and law of the consolidated litigation, to retain the case for trial. The 106th Congress\nadjourned without taking further action.",
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