Perspective
Nov. 5, 2013
Multidistrict litigation helps relieve clogged courts
From 1968 through 2012, there were 415,995 civil actions centralized for pretrial proceedings in MDLs, up from 393,676 in 2011 and 349,913 in 2010. By Wendy Behan
The recent shutdown of the federal government put the squeeze on an already clogged court system. Because of the logjam in our courts, litigation generally is becoming more expensive and difficult to manage.
Large-scale litigation makes especially huge demands on an already overburdened system. Designed to streamline the process, multidistrict litigation (MDL) refers to a special federal legal procedure created to consolidate a range of ...
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