Legal Opinion
In Re Ski Train Fire in Kaprun, Austria on November 11, 2000
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 8, 2004No. MDL No. 1428(SAS). No. 03 Civ.6351PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, the relatives of Americans who died in a ski train fire on November 11, 2000, in Kaprun, Austria, brought several individual actions against numerous individual and corporate defendants for damages and declaratory and injunctive relief. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“MDL Panel”) consolidated these suits for pretrial purposes before this Court. 1 Defendants Binder AG in Abwicklung (as successor in interest to Waagner-Biro Binder Aktiengesellschaft and Waagner-Biro AG) (collectively, “WBB”), Waagner-Biro Binder…
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