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A judicial panel is a set of judges who sit together to hear a cause of action, most frequently an appeal from a ruling of a trial court judge. Panels are used in contrast to single-judge appeals, and en banc hearings, which involves all of the judges of that court.

The MDL Panel consists of seven sitting federal judges, who are appointed to serve on the Panel by the Chief Justice of the United States. The multidistrict litigation statute provides that no two Panel members may be from the same federal judicial circuit.

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) determines whether civil actions pending in two or more federal judicial districts should be transferred to a single federal district court for pretrial proceedings.

The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (J.P.M.L. or the Panel) is a special body within the United States federal court system which manages multidistrict litigation.

Congress established the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in April 1968 (82 Stat. 109) and granted it authority to transfer to a single district court the pretrial proceedings for civil cases involving common questions of fact.

2023年9月30日 · Cases Transferred by Order of Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation: S-19 : September 30, 2021 : Judicial Business

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