{"id":264,"date":"2024-06-12T14:52:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/?p=264"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:52:58","slug":"updated-federal-rules-can-improve-product-liability-mdls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/2024\/06\/12\/updated-federal-rules-can-improve-product-liability-mdls\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated Federal Rules Can Improve Product Liability MDLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the evolving universe of multidistrict litigation, begun in the antitrust cases against major electronics manufacturers in the 1960s, federal courts have developed varying approaches to fulfilling their responsibilities to achieve efficiency and reduce costs. This process continues today almost 60 years since the creation of the first MDL. <strong>Read the\u00a0<em>Law360\u00a0<\/em>article by <a title=\"Alan Klein\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/alanklein.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Klein<\/a> and <a title=\"William R. Heaston\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/williamheaston.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William R. Heaston<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/articles\/updated_federal_rules_can_improve_product_liability_mdls_0624.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duane Morris website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the evolving universe of multidistrict litigation, begun in the antitrust cases against major electronics manufacturers in the 1960s, federal courts have developed varying approaches to fulfilling their responsibilities to achieve efficiency and reduce costs. This process continues today almost 60 years since the creation of the first MDL. Read the\u00a0Law360\u00a0article by Alan Klein and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/2024\/06\/12\/updated-federal-rules-can-improve-product-liability-mdls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updated Federal Rules Can Improve Product Liability MDLs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,196,80,197,177],"ppma_author":[110],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-alan-klein","tag-antitrust","tag-mdl","tag-rule-702","tag-william-heaston"],"authors":[{"term_id":110,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}