In Re the Bear Stearns Companies Inc. Securities, Derivative & Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

J. FREDERICK MOTZ, Acting Chairman.

Before the entire Panel *: Defendants The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. (Bear Stearns) and Alan D. Schwartz have moved, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings of the actions listed on Schedule A in the Southern District of New York. The defendants’ motion encompasses fourteen actions in the Southern District of New York and one action in the Eastern District of New York. 1 Plaintiffs in three Southern District of New York actions support transfer of the outlying Eastern District of New York action to…