abstract:In the United States, multidistrict litigation (MDL) refers to a special federal legal procedure designed to speed the process of handling complex cases such as air disaster litigation or complex product liability suits.
The idea is to avoid the so-called multidistrictlitigation (MDL) process, in which hundreds of cases are under the oversight of a single federal judge in New Orleans.
Vince Galvin of Bowman and Brooke, who represents Toyota in the current multidistrictlitigation over unintended acceleration in its cars, acknowledged that preemption was unlikely to be an issue in that case.