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Manual for Complex Litigation, Second Edition [Superseded]

January 1, 1985

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. district judges.

Superseded by Manual for Complex Litigation, Third (1995).