Multidistrict Litigation (MDL)

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Managing Multidistrict Litigation in Products Liability Cases: A Pocket Guide for Transferee Judges

Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, Catherine R. Borden

January 1, 2011

This guide is intended to help judges who receive multidistrict litigation (MDL) products liability assignments to manage MDL cases and to introduce some of the procedures that transferee judges have developed over the years.

Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Judges [Superseded]

Federal Judicial Center, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

January 1, 2009

This guide is intended to help judges to whom an MDL case has been transferred. Congress created the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation under 28 U.S.C.

Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Court Clerks [Superseded]

Federal Judicial Center, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

January 1, 2008

This guide is intended to help transferee clerks of court successfully manage multidistrict litigation (MDL).

Procedure Order

Vaughn R. Walker

August 31, 2006

Order, In re NSA Telecommunication Records Litigation, 3:06-md-1791 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 31, 2006), D.E. 15.

Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth Edition

March 23, 2004

This work describes approaches that trial judges have found to be useful in managing complex cases.

40.51 Coordinating Proceedings in Different Courts

January 1, 2004

40.3 Order Creating a Web Site

January 1, 2004

Judicial Federalism in Action: Coordination of Litigation in State and Federal Courts

Alan Hirsch, Nancy E. Weiss, William W Schwarzer

January 1, 1992

A paper that describes how some state and federal judges have coordinated complex litigation pending in their courts.

The Black Lung Act: An Analysis of Legal Issues Raised Under the Benefit Program Created by the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 (As Amended)

Ernest Gellhorn

January 1, 1981

An essay for use by judges and others in understanding the legal requirements and interpretative problems of the Black Lung Act. It includes a brief account of the legislative history of the Act and describes some of the Act's main provisions.

Manual for Complex and Multidistrict Litigation [superseded]

January 1, 1969

This first edition of the Manual for Complex Litigation was prepared by a board of editors, appointed by the director of the Federal Judicial Center, in an effort to preserve judges’ pretrial and trial experience gained in cases involving multidistrict and complex litigation.

Federal Judicial Center

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