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.
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.
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.
These brief bulletins, which were supplements to the Manual for Complex and Multidistrict Litigation (1969), contain summaries of opinions and orders concerning problems that occur in complex and multidistrict litigatio