Class Action Links

Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth
This Web site contains the fourth edition of the Manual for Complex Litigation provided by the Federal Judicial Center.

Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation
The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation, known as the MDL Panel, determines whether civil actions pending in different federal districts should be centralized to one federal district for proceedings.

Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges (PDF)
This Web site contains a guide for managing class action litigation provided by the Federal Judicial Center.

Class-Action Fairness Act (PDF)
This Web site contains a copy of the Class-Action Fairness Act provided by the Government Printing Office (GPO).

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23
This Web site contains the text of Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. In federal courts, class actions are governed by this rule.

Class Action: An Overview This Web site contains a brief overview of class actions provided by Wex, a public-access legal dictionary and encyclopedia sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute (LII) at the Cornell Law School.

Class Actions Legal Research and Litigation Articles from Litilaw This Web site contains full-text articles written by lawyers and published as part of continuing legal education (CLE) seminars, in legal journals, or are of similar quality.

The Evidence on Securities Class Actions
This Web site contains an article examining the theoretical issues and surveying the evidence on the desirability of securities class actions.

Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
The Securities Class Action Clearinghouse provides detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation.

US Food and Drug Administration The US Food and Drug Administration's Web site contains information on product safety and recalls and provides a means to report problem products.

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