legal procedure Procedural law, adjective law, in some jurisdictions referred to as remedial law, or rules of court, comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil, lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings. The rules are ...

(both civil and criminal), misjoinder (also known as wrongful

joinder In law, a joinder is the joining of two or more legal issues together. Procedurally, a joinder allows multiple issues to be heard in one hearing or trial and occurs if the issues or parties involved overlap sufficiently to make the process more e ...

) involves the improper inclusion of one or more parties or causes of action within a lawsuit. The two forms of misjoinder are: *Misjoinder of causes of action, or counts: joining several demands to enforce substantive rights of recovery that are distinct and contradictory. * Misjoinder of parties: joining as plaintiffs or defendants persons who have conflicting interests, or who were not involved in the same transaction or event.

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According to FRCP, Rule 21,

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