Legal Opinion
In re Sinking of the Motor Vessel Ukola
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided December 15, 1978No. 354PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
Before JOHN MINOR WISDOM, Chairman, and EDWARD WEINFELD, EDWIN A. ROBSON, STANLEY A. WEIGEL, ANDREW A. CAFFREY and ROY W. HARPER, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.
I. BACKGROUND
This litigation consists of eleven actions pending in five districts: tnree each in the Southern District of Florida and the District of Puerto Rico, two each in the Southern District of Texas and the Southern District of New York, and one in the Eastern District of Louisiana.1 Each of these actions involves the January 1977 sinking of the motor vessel Ukola in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 200 miles…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In Re Commonwealth Oil/Tesoro Petroleum Securities LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1978
- In Re Air Crash Disaster at Taipei International AirportUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1977
3Cited by3 opinions
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- In Re Cement and Concrete Antitrust LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1979
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