When a Defendant faces thousands of lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions for the same product or alleged negligent act, the Defendant will typically request that the Multidistrict Litigation Panel consolidate those cases into one Multidistrict Litigation Court (MDL).   MDLs are used to manage discovery and sometimes even trials for lawsuits that involve drugs, defective products, negligent acts, and other claims that involve thousands of people whose allegations of harm involve the same basic actions by the Defendant.

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