In re Motion Picture Licensing Antitrust Litigation

*582OPINION AND ORDER

Before MURRAY I. GURFEIN, Chairman, and ANDREW A. CAFFREY,* ROY W. HARPER, CHARLES R. WEINER, EDWARD S. NORTHROP and ROBERT H. SCHNACKE, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.

I. BACKGROUND

A. The Panel’s Earlier Decisions

The Panel, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, previously centralized eight actions in this litigation in the Southern District of Texas for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings before the Honorable John V. Singleton, Jr. In re Motion Picture Licensing Antitrust Litigation, 468 F.Supp. 837 (Jud.Pan.Mult.Lit.1979). On June 27, 1979, and September 27, 1979, the…