 |  _ | Managing Multidistrict Litigation in Products Liability Cases: A Pocket Guide for Transferee Judges
Barbara J. Rothstein, Catherine R. Borden,
2011 (Publication) 53 pages
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. |
| _ | Survey of Federal Transferee Judges in MDL Proceedings Regarding Coordination with Parallel State Proceedings: Report to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction
Emery G. Lee III,
December 2011 (Publication) 3 pages
The Judicial Conference Committee on Federal–State Jurisdiction and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) asked the Federal Judicial Center to survey transferee judges in multidistrict litigation proceedings about their experiences in coordinating with state judges. The purpose of ...(Read more) |
| _ | Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Judges
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, Federal Judicial Center,
2009 (Publication) 20 pages
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. § 1407 and gave it the responsibility to transfer “civil actions involving one or more common questions of fact” from multiple districts to ...(Read more) |
| _ | Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Court Clerks
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, Federal Judicial Center,
2008 (Publication) 18 pages
This guide is intended to help transferee clerks of court successfully manage multidistrict litigation (MDL). It contains recommendations from the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and suggestions for implementing the Case Management/Electronic Case Filing System (CM/ECF) to improve MDL ...(Read more) |
| _ | Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth
2004 (Publication) 798 pages
Successor to the Manual for Complex Litigation, Third. This work describes approaches that trial judges have found to be useful in managing complex cases. This edition updates the treatment of electronic discovery and other aspects of pretrial management and describes major changes affecting case ...(Read more) |
| _ | Beyond Maturity: Mass Tort Case Management in the Manual for Complex Litigation
Thomas E. Willging,
June 2000 (Publication) 50 pages
148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2225, No. 6 (June 2000) |
| _ | Case Studies of Mass Tort Limited Fund Class Action Settlements & Bankruptcy Reorganizations
S. Elizabeth Gibson,
2000 (Publication) 244 pages
This is an expanded version of a report that was previously published as Appendix E of the Report of the Advisory Group on Civil Rules and the Working Group on Mass Torts (Report on Mass Tort Litigation) February 15, 1999. In this version, the author expands her analysis by examining publicly ...(Read more) |
| _ | Individual Characteristics of Mass Torts Case Congregations: A report to the Mass Torts Working Group (Appendix D)
Thomas E. Willging, Rebecca Spiro, Carol Witcher, Philip Egelston, Suzanne Hruby, Melissa Deckman Fallon,
1999 (Publication) 113 pages
This report, done for the Mass Torts Working Group, appointed in 1998 by the Chief Justice, organizes and presents information from published sources on about fifty sets of mass tort litigations involving personal injury and property damage claims. Information presented includes the shape of the ...(Read more) |
| _ | Mass Torts Problems and Proposals: A Report to the Mass Torts Working Group (Appendix C)
Thomas E. Willging,
1999 (Publication) 126 pages
The Mass Torts Working Group, appointed in 1998 by the Chief Justice, asked the Center to conduct a literature review examining problems related to mass torts and to discuss proposals for resolving those problems. This report is the result of that research. It identifies fourteen distinct problems ...(Read more) |
| _ | Mass Tort Settlement Class Actions: Five Case Studies
Jay Tidmarsh,
1998 (Publication) 100 pages
This monograph by Professor Jay Tidmarsh of Notre Dame Law School examines five cases in which Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has been used to achieve a settlement of a mass tort controversy. The reason for studying mass tort settlement class actions is simple: Using class actions ...(Read more) |
| _ | Use of Expert Testimony, Specialized Decision Makers, and Case-Management Innovations in the National Vaccine Compensation Program
Molly Treadway Johnson, Carol E. Drew, Dean P. Miletich,
1998 (Publication) 60 pages
A report on the Center's study of the vaccine injury program. The report examines why the program was created, its implementation, the filing and termination rates over its course, and participants' views of the program. The authors also discuss whether the program structure would be appropriate in ...(Read more) |
| _ | FJC Directions, No. 8: Reports from the First National Mass Tort Conference
July 1995 (Publication) 20 pages
Four articles in this issue of FJC Directions are devoted to the November 1994 conference at which more than 175 federal and state judges gathered to analyze techniques for managing mass tort litigation.
In this issue of FJC Directions:
● National Mass Tort Conference Explores Implications of ...(Read more) |
| _ | Manual for Complex Litigation, Third
1995 (Publication) 568 pages
[superseded]
The successor to the Manual for Complex Litigation, Second, this work describes procedures that trial judges have found to be successful in managing complex cases. It also analyzes practices that have caused difficulties. It includes a number of forms that have been used by U.S. ...(Read more) |
| _ | Trends in Asbestos Litigation
Thomas E. Willging,
1987 (Publication) 138 pages
A report, prepared as asbestos litigation was becoming a growing presence on federal dockets, based on an intensive study of ten federal district courts with heavy asbestos caseloads. The author examines both innovative and traditional methods of handling the asbestos caseload in the federal ...(Read more) |
| _ | Asbestos Case Management: Pretrial and Trial Procedures
Thomas E. Willging,
1985 (Publication) 39 pages
A description of case-management procedures various courts have used to facilitate prompt resolution in asbestos litigation. The report is based on a conference of federal judges, magistrate judges, and clerks. Among the methods described are use of standardized pretrial procedures to avoid ...(Read more) |
| _ | Manual for Complex Litigation, Second
1985 (Publication) 525 pages
[superseded]
The successor to the Manual for Complex Litigation, this work describes alternative procedures that trial judges have found to be successful in managing complex cases. It also analyzes practices that have caused difficulties. It includes a number of forms that have been used by U.S. ...(Read more) |
| _ | Asbestos Case Management Conference Notebook
Thomas E. Willging,
June 7, 1984 (Publication)
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| _ | Asbestos Case Management Conference Reading File, Volumes 1 and 2
Thomas E. Willging,
June 7, 1984 (Publication)
Asbestos Case Management Orders.
Volume 1: Clerk's Division Report; Northern District of California; District of Colorado; Western District of Louisiana; District of Maryland
Volume 2: District of Massachusetts; District of New Jersey; Southern District of Mississippi; Middle District of North ...(Read more) |
| _ | Manual for Complex Litigation (Fifth Edition) With Amendments to September 1981
1982 (Publication) 457 pages
[superseded]
This publication was prepared by the Federal Judicial Center but published by West Publishing Company. West Publishing assigned its own "edition" number to the publication. |
| _ | Manual for Complex and Multidistrict Litigation (corrected copy)
June 7, 1971 (Publication) 268 pages
[superseded]
One of the predecessors of the Manual for Complex Litigation. |
| _ | Manual for Complex and Multidistrict Litigation
1969 (Publication)
[superseded]
One of the predecessors of the Manual for Complex Litigation. |
| _ | Manual for Complex and Multidistrict Litigation Board Bulletins
John T. McDermott,
1969 (Publication)
[superseded]
These brief bulletins which were supplements to the Manual for Complex and Multidistrict Litigation contain summaries of opinions and orders concerning problems which occur in complex and multidistrict ltigation.
22 issues of the Bulletin were published from 1969 to 1970 |