California-American Water Company v. United States
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
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…