Interlocutory Appeals In MDLs Would Burden Litigants, Courts

By Brian Devine ( April 24, 2020, 6:01 PM EDT) -- A group of pharmaceutical and medical device companies have suggested amending the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to give them a special right to appeal interlocutory orders in multidistrict litigation cases. The proposed rule, as laid out in an April 10 Law360 guest article, would vastly diminish the long-protected right of MDL judges to manage their dockets, and burden the courts of appeal with unnecessary appeals....

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