Legal Opinion

In Re Tyson Foods, Inc. Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics

United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Decided October 17, 2008No. MDL 1982Published

1Opinion of the Court

TRANSFER ORDER

JOHN G. HEYBURN II, Chairman.

Before the entire Panel: Plaintiffs in an action pending in the District of Maryland have moved, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, to centralize this litigation in that district. This litigation currently consists of nine actions: three pending in the Eastern District of Arkansas, two in the District of Maryland, and one each in the Western District of Arkansas, the North ern District of California, the District of New Jersey, and the Western District of Washington, as listed on Schedule A. 1 All responding plaintiffs support centralization in the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Liteky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  2. Sanderson Farms, Inc. v. Tyson Foods, Inc.District Court, D. Maryland · 2008

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