Joinder
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
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(A) Except as otherwise provided by the Admiralty Supplemental Rules, parties may sue and parties (including a vessel or other res) may be sued either jointly, severally or alternatively in one suit, and persons having separate causes of action may join in one suit if the cause of action involve substantially the same questions and arise out of the same transactions. (B) Persons who, under the preceding paragraph of this rule, might have joined as co-plaintiffs, and, in suits for wages, any other seamen claiming wages for the same voyage, not made parties in the original complaint, may, upon motion, be joined to prosecute as co-plaintiffs upon such terms as the court may deem reasonable. -11-