Plaintiff Fact Sheet (PFS)
A standardised questionnaire each plaintiff completes in lieu of individual interrogatories.
PFS practice substitutes uniform, court-ordered disclosure — product use, exposure dates, medical history, treating providers — for individualised discovery across thousands of cases. Non-compliance is a standard route to dismissal and a principal tool for clearing unsupported claims from an inventory.
See also
- Defendant Fact Sheet (DFS)The defendant's reciprocal case-specific disclosure in an MDL.
- Lone Pine OrderA case management order requiring prima facie proof of exposure, injury, and causation early on.
- Census RegistryAn early MDL mechanism capturing basic information about every claim, filed or unfiled.
- Multidistrict Litigation (MDL)Federal consolidation of related civil actions before one judge for coordinated pretrial proceedings.
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