In Re Heritage Bonds Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

WM. TERRELL HODGES, Chairman.

This litigation consists of the five actions listed on the attached Schedule A and pending in two districts as follows: four actions in the Central District of California and one action in the Northern District of Illinois. Now before the Panel is a motion, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, for centralization of the five actions in the Central District of California for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings. The movants are i) U.S. Trust Co. of Texas, N.A. (USTT), which is plaintiff in one California action, a defendant in the three remaining…