Mealey's (January 3, 2023, 4:13 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPMDL) has centralized into a multidistrict litigation 16 federal complaints alleging that Pfizer Inc. sold contaminated Chantix smoking cessation drugs, rejecting an attempt by the defendant to use the first-to-file rule to simply transfer venue into one court....