Legal Opinion
In Re: The Upjohn Company Antibiotic Cleocin Products Liability Litigation. Juanita Stavro v. The Upjohn Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 19, 1981No. 79-1213PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENGEL, Circuit Judge.
The issue in this appeal is the extent to which a transferee judge in multidistrict litigation proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 may vacate and modify protective orders earlier entered by transferor courts, where those orders enjoin the use of discovery materials obtained through the federal litigation by others not parties to the multidistrict litigation. In an opinion reported at 81 F.R.D. 482 (E.D.Mich.1979), then United States District Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy concluded that since the order of the transferor court related to the subject of discovery, the ongoing…
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