This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Multidistrict litigation (MDL) is unorthodox, modern civil procedure. It is an old-but-new procedural tool that significantly disrupts decades ...

Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal, which will reach the Supreme Court for oral argument on Monday, is just one of many examples of recent unorthodox civil procedure maneuvers in public harms litigation.

In any civilised society, there is a need that an ordinary person has an easy and speedy access to justice. The provision of speedy justice is acknowledged not only because the superior courts are ...