Multi-District Litigation cases (MDL's) are cases involving one or more common questions of fact which have been transferred from different districts by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to a single district for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1407.

Important Contacts:

Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building
One Columbus Circle, NE
Room G-255, North Lobby
Washington, DC 20002-8004

The Panel’s website includes links to the full texts of statutes and rules governing Multi-District Litigation, as well as information about the Panel itself, and all pending MDLs.

For information on current pending District of New Jersey MDL cases, please click on the specific case on the left.