In Re Seeburg-Commonwealth United Merger

OPINION AND ORDER

On May 4, 1970 certain actions brought by stockholders and former stockholders of the Commonwealth United Corporation and the Seeburg Corporation were transferred to the Southern District of New York and assigned to Judge MeFadden for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1407. In re Seeburg-Commonwealth United Merger Litigation, 312 F.Supp. 909 (J.P.M.L.1970). The above action, filed in the Central District of California in May, was the subject of a “Conditional Transfer Order” 1 entered in June. One of the parties objected to the proposed…