PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Pleading
......Complaints
.........Joinder: Permissive
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Parties may be joined as Ds if joint and several liability sought.

Parties may join as Ps if rights arise out of same contractual or property transaction.

U.S. could join lawsuit on appeal where it requested same remedy for same reasons and earlier joinder would not have affected case; jurisdictional defect cured by joinder.

Because court could award complete relief without joinder of all parties, and their absence would not harm anyone's protectible interests, court erred in sustaining demurrers for nonjoinder.

D could permissibly include in its cross-complaint indemnity claims against co-D from prior cases involving D and co-D.

In action challenging regulations made by state and local air quality agencies, joinder of agencies as Ds proper since common issues of law and fact presented.

Successive tortfeasors may be joined as Ds.

Concurrent tortfeasors may be joined as D.

Taxpayers may join in action to recover taxes under same assessment as they share common questions of law or fact.

Parties may join as Ps if rights arise out of same transaction and they have common questions of law or fact; Ps properly joined where separate land parcels leased as one.

Class action as extension of permissive joinder.