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Managing Multidistrict Litigation in Products Liability Cases: A Pocket Guide for Transferee Judges [PDF]

Ten Steps To Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Judges 2009 [PDF]

Ten Steps To Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Court Clerks  2008 [PDF]

Articles

A View from the Panel: Part of the Solution [PDF]

Hon. John G. Heyburn II
82 Tul. L. Rev. 2225 (2008)

Bellwether Trials in Multidistrict Litigation [PDF]

Hon. Eldon E. Fallon, Jeremy T. Grabill & Robert Pitard Wynne
82 Tul. L. Rev. 2323 (2008)

Extreme Litigation: An Interview with Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges,
Chairman of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Gregory Hansel
19 Me. B.J. 16 (2004)

From the Horse's Mouth: The Workings of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation  

Hon. John F. Nangle
66 Def. Couns. J. 341 (1999)

MDL Panel: “Traffic Cop” Seeing Its Power Grow  

Peter Geier
Nat’l L.J., (Mar. 26, 2007)

Overview of Multidistrict Litigation Rules at the State and Local Level  

Yvette Ostolaza & Michelle Hartmann,
26 Rev. Litig. 47 (Winter 2007)

Treatises

Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth [PDF]

2004; 798 pages

Annotated Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth

David F. Herr
 2009; 1,197 pages
(Available on Westlaw; updated through 2009. Database: MCL-ANN. Searchable)

Multidistrict Litigation Manual

David F. Herr
1986, 2009; 350 pages
(Available on Westlaw; updated through 2009. Database: MDLITMAN. Searchable)

Links

Federal Judicial Center