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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 ...

There are two main issues that are frustrating for clients who are involved in a lawsuit: the costs associated with a lawsuit and the time it takes to get the lawsuit resolved. This is understandable.

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.