Moss, Jane v. CBS Corporation et al
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Copy of Conditional Transfer Order. Signed by Kathryn H. Vratil, Acting Chairman of the Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on 4/1/13. (rep) Modified on 4/2/2013 (rep).
Case ILN/1:12-cv-09515 Document 43 Filed 04/01/13 Page 1 of 2
UNITED STATES JUDICIAL PANEL
on
MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION
IN RE: ASBESTOS PRODUCTS LIABILITY
LITIGATION (No. VI)
David Luna, Sr. v. CBS Corporation, et al.,
N.D. Illinois, C.A. No. 1:12-09515
Sue Roberts v. A.W. Chesterton Company, et al.,
N.D. Illinois, C.A. No. 3:12-50429
Jane Moss v. CBS Corporation, et al.,
W.D. Wisconsin, C.A. No. 3:13-00042
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MDL No. 875
TRANSFER ORDER
Before the Panel:* Pursuant to Rule 7.1, plaintiffs in these three actions, all of whom are
represented by the firm of Cascino Vaughan Law Offices, Ltd. (CVLO), move to vacate the Panel’s
orders conditionally transferring the actions to MDL No. 875. Responding defendants oppose the
motion.1
In December 2011, we adopted, in this docket, a “Suggestion to the Panel on Multidistrict
Litigation (‘The Panel’) Concerning Future Tag-Along Transfers” (First Suggestion) issued by the
transferee judge, the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno. See In re: Asbestos Prods. Liab. Litig., 830
F. Supp. 2d 1377 (J.P.M.L. 2011). Pursuant to our order adopting the First Suggestion, we ceased
transferring most new tag-along actions to the MDL. Id. at 1378. As set forth in the First
Suggestion, however, actions commenced in a limited number of jurisdictions were excepted from
this “cessation of transfers” rule. These excepted actions include all actions commenced in districts
in the Seventh Circuit wherein plaintiffs are represented by CVLO. Id. at 1380.
In November 2012, we adopted Judge Robreno’s “Second Suggestion to the Panel on
Multidistrict Litigation (‘The Panel’) Concerning Future Tag-Along Transfers” (“Second
Suggestion”). See Order Adopting Second Suggestion to the Panel Concerning Future Tag-Along
Transfers, at 1 n.2 (J.P.M.L. Nov. 21, 2012) (doc. no. 9090). In that Second Suggestion, the judge
recommended that we cease transferring new tag-along asbestos actions commenced in seven
additional jurisdictions – but not CVLO Seventh Circuit actions. See id., at App. A. Thus, pursuant
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Judge John G. Heyburn II took no part in the decision of this matter.
Responding defendants are CBS Corporation (as to all three actions), General Electric
Company (as to the Northern District of Illinois Luna and Roberts actions), Exelon Corporation (as
to Luna); Honeywell International Incorporated (as to Luna); Owens-Illinois, Inc. (as to Roberts and
the Western District of Wisconsin Moss action); CertainTeed Corporation (as to Moss); Ingersoll
Rand Company (as to Moss); and Trane U.S. Inc. (as to Moss).
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-2to our orders adopting the First and Second Suggestions, we currently are transferring to the MDL
new asbestos actions commenced in just a handful of jurisdictions: the Northern District of California,
the Northern District of Ohio, the Eastern District of Virginia, and districts in the Seventh Circuit
(but, again, only those Seventh Circuit actions in which CVLO represents the plaintiffs therein).
In opposing transfer, moving plaintiffs argue that very few new CVLO actions are being
transferred to the MDL, and that such transfer no longer serves the purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 1407.
We disagree. As described above, Judge Robreno is ably and efficiently winding down this MDL,
and, indeed, in accordance with his two Suggestions, we have ceased transferring new asbestos tagalongs commenced in the vast majority of federal districts. In our view, the judge is in the best
position to know when transfer of new actions from those few remaining jurisdictions is no longer
warranted.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, these actions are
transferred to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and, with the consent of that court, assigned to
the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno for inclusion in the coordinated or consolidated pretrial
proceedings.
PANEL ON MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION
Kathryn H. Vratil
Acting Chairman
W. Royal Furgeson, Jr.
Marjorie O. Rendell
Lewis A. Kaplan
Paul G. Barbadoro
Charles R. Breyer
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