California-American Water Company v. United States ( 2020 )

UNITED STATES JUDICIAL PANEL FILED on MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION whee es 2020 IN RE: AQUEOUS FILM-FORMING FOAMS PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION MDL No. 2873 (SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE) CONDITIONAL TRANSFER ORDER (CTO —25) On December 7, 2018, the Panel transferred 75 civil action(s) to the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407. See 357 F.Supp.3d 1391 (J.P.M.L. 2018). Since that time, 48 additional action(s) have been transferred to the District of South Carolina. With the consent of that court, all such actions have been assigned to the Honorable Richard M. Gergel. It appears that the action(s) on this conditional transfer order involve questions of fact that are common to the actions previously transferred to the District of South Carolina and assigned to Judge Gergel. Pursuant to Rule 7.1 of the Rules of Procedure of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, the action(s) on the attached schedule are transferred under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 to the District of South Carolina for the reasons stated in the order of December 7, 2018, and, with the consent of that court, assigned to the Honorable Richard M. Gergel. This order does not become effective until it is filed in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. The transmittal of this order to said Clerk shall be stayed 7 days from the entry thereof. If any party files a notice of opposition with the Clerk of the Panel within this 7—day period, the stay will be continued until further order of the Panel. FOR THE PANEL: Inasmuch as no objection is ed. = un “AL pending at this time, the stay is lifted. John W. Nichols Feb 20, 202 eb 20, 2020 Clerk of the Panel CLERK’S OFFICE GOSESORTR A TRUE COPY BB. \ ATTEST: ROBIN L. BLUME, CLERK IN RE: AQUEOUS FILM−FORMING FOAMS PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION MDL No. 2873 SCHEDULE CTO−25 − TAG−ALONG ACTIONS DIST DIV. C.A.NO. CASE CAPTION CALIFORNIA EASTERN CAE 2 20−00144 California−American Water Company v. USA