State as a whole does not track mass torts.
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None known.
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Rules do not single out mass tort cases; Civil Rule of Procedure 23(a) and (b) set forth class action requirements.
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None known.
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None known.
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None known.
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Same as for other civil cases. An appellate court can accept discretionary review of trial court’s interlocutory decisions pursuant to Rule of Appellate Procedure 2.3.
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Not statewide. At different times, individual courts have adopted tracks for pre-assigning complicated civil cases to individual judges, so that for each case a single judge hears both the pre-trial issues and the trial itself. These specialized civil tracks, however, are not necessarily limited to mass torts on the whole, as much as they are limited to any tort cases that might be particularly complicated and time-consuming.
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None known.
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Not statewide. At times, individual courts have pre-assigned complicated civil cases (as described above), but not aware of any that have focused on mass tort cases.
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Washington courts use the Judicial Information System (JIS) to automate and support court operations, and to maintain a statewide network connecting courts and partner criminal justice agencies to the JIS database.
GR 30, Electronic filing.
Electronic Filing Technical Standards for the Washington State Courts (November 7, 2003).
Access to Justice Technology Resources.
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