Orange County Water District v. Texaco Refining & Marketing, Inc.

BARRINGTON D. PARKER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from contamination of groundwater in Orange County, California, from various oil companies’ use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (“MTBE”). This case, initially brought in 2003 in California state court, was removed to the Central District of California and transferred in 2004 to the Southern District of New York by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. See 28 U.S.C. § 1407. The district court transferred to *181the Central District of California all claims except those against BP and Shell.2 The district court…