Kelly-Leppert
In re: Roundup Products Liability Litigation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES JUDICIAL PANEL
on
MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION
IN RE: ROUNDUP PRODUCTS
LIABILITY LITIGATION MDL No. 2741
REMAND ORDER
Before the Panel:* Plaintiff Consuela E. Kelly-Leppert, who is proceeding pro se, moves under Panel Rule 10.2 to vacate our order that conditionally remanded the Kelly-Leppert action listed on Schedule A to the Eastern District of Missouri. No party responded to the motion.
After considering the plaintiff’s arguments, the Panel finds that remand of this action under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 is warranted. In considering the question of remand, the Panel consistently gives great weight to the transferee judge’s determination that remand of a particular action at a particular time is appropriate because the transferee judge, after all, supervises the litigation’s pretrial proceedings. See, e.g., In re Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. Qui Tam Litig. (No. II), 560 F. Supp. 2d 1349, 1350 (J.P.M.L. 2008). The transferee judge’s suggestion of remand indicates that “he perceives his role under Section 1407 to have ended.” In re Holiday Magic Sec. & Antitrust Litig., 433 F. Supp. 1125, 1126 (J.P.M.L. 1977). Here, the transferee…