Tag: judicial administration
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MDL as Category
Zachary D. Clopton, Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Multidistrict litigation (MDL) dominates the federal civil docket. MDL has been used to consolidate hundreds of thousands of cases, including with respect to asbestos, the BP oil spill, Johnson & Johnson baby powder, NFL concussions, opioids, and more. In recent years, MDL has attracted the attention of reformers and scholars, who have offered proposals for…
Jul 2020