Legal Opinion
In re Eastern District Repetitive Stress Injury Litigation
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided April 20, 1994No. Nos. 92-CV-2221, 92-CV-2223, 92-CV-2229, 92-CV-2233, 92-CV-2235, 92-CV-2236, 92-CV-2583, 92-CV-2590, 92-CV-2770, 92-CV-2772, 92-CV-2774, 92-CV-2775, 92-CV-2776, 92-CV-2824, 92-CV-2825, 92-CV-2826, 92-CV-2827, 92-CV-2828, 92-CV-2911, 92-CV-2924, 92-CV-2925, 92-CV-2941, 92-CV-2942, 92-CV-2943, 92-CV-3007, 92-CV-3008, 92-CV-3009, 92-CV-3105, 92-CV-3126, 92-CV-3397, 92-CV-3516, 92-CV-3554, 92-CV-3967, 92-CV-3994, 92-CV-4028, 92-CV-4063, 92-CV-4176, 92-CV-4291, 92-CV-4308, 92-CV-4311, 92-CV-4312, 92-CV-4327, 92-CV-4617, 92-CV-4697, 92-CV-4700, 92-CV-4784, 92-CV-4785, 92-CV-4917, 92-CV-5226, 92-CV-5228, 92-CV-5259, 92-CV-5441, 92-CV-5504, 92-CV-5630, 92-CV-5946, 92-CV-6087, 92-CV-6089, 93-CV-0283, 93-CV-0366, 93-CV-0400, 93-CV-0425, 93-CV-0427, 93-CV-0532, 93-CV-0556, 93-CV-0698, 93-CV-0854, 93-CV-0919, 93-CV-1088, 93-CV-1303, 93-CV-1318, 93-CV-1321, 93-CV-1354, 93-CV-1497, 93-CV-1507, 93-CV-1523, 93-CV-1524, 93-CV-1541 and 93-CV-1781PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
HURLEY, District Judge.
Defendants seek to transfer all or part of 78 cases in which plaintiffs allege repetitive stress injuries to the districts around the United States in which plaintiffs’ claims arose. Defendants also seek severance of individual plaintiffs’ claims to the extent necessary to effectuate transfer.
*193 BACKGROUND
As of the date of this decision, over 450 repetitive stress injury (“RSI”) cases have been filed in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of over 1,000 plaintiffs against over 100 different equipment manufacturers. In each of these cases, plaintiffs allege…
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