In re Factor VIII or IX Concentrate Blood Products Litigation

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GRADY, District Judge.

A discovery motion in this multidistrict litigation calls upon this court to interpret the italicized language in the concluding sentence of 28 U.S.C. § 1407(b):

The judge or judges to whom such actions are assigned, the members of the judicial panel on multidistrict litigation, and other circuit and district judges designated when needed by the panel may exercise the powers of a district judge in any district for the purpose of conducting pretrial depositions in such coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings.

Plaintiffs in the litigation…