Legal Opinion
In Re Tyson Foods, Inc.
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided August 17, 2007No. MDL NO. 1854PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
TRANSFER ORDER
JOHN G. HEYBURN, II, Chairman.
Before the . entire Panel * : Defendants Tyson Foods, Inc; Tyson Chicken, Inc.; and Tyson Farms, Inc. (collectively Tyson) have moved, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, to centralize this litigation in the Northern District of Alabama. Plaintiffs in the Middle District of Georgia McCluster action support centralization in Western District of Arkansas or, alternatively, the Northern District of Georgia. Plaintiffs.in seventeen actions oppose centralization; in the alternative, these plaintiffs suggest the Western District of Arkansas as an appropriate…
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