Legal Opinion
In re CBS Color Tube Patent Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided June 28, 1971No. 69PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
Before ALFRED P. MURRAH, Chairman and JOHN MINOR WISDOM, EDWARD WEINFELD, EDWIN A. ROBSON, WILLIAM H. BECKER and STANLEY A. WEIGEL, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.
When Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (hereinafter CBS) filed its motion to transfer all related cases to the District of Massachusetts for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1407, there were a total of six actions pending in three different districts. (See Schedule A) The General Electric Company, a party in two of these actions, advised the Panel at the May 26, 1971 hearing that…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Columbia Broadcasting System v. Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1969
- System v. Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1968
- In re Multidistrict Litigation Involving Deering Milliken PatentUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1970
- Zenith Radio Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1968
3Cited by2 opinions
- In Re CBS Color Tube Patent LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1972
- Western Electric Co. v. Advanced Memory Systems, Inc.United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1977