In Re Fleming Companies Inc. Securities & Derivative Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

WM. TERRELL HODGES, Chairman.

This litigation presently consists of fourteen actions: twelve actions in the Eastern District of Texas, and two actions in the Western District of Oklahoma. 1 Before the Panel is a motion, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, by Fleming Companies Inc. (Fleming) and certain Fleming officer/director defendants 2 to centralize these ac tions in the Northern District of Texas for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings. Fleming’s outside auditor, De-loitte & Touche, supports centralization in this district. Plaintiff in one Eastern District of Texas…