Legal Opinion

In re Sugar Industry Antitrust Litigation

United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Decided January 17, 1977No. Nos. 201, 201APublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION AND ORDER

2Per curiam

I. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The Panel originally transferred several actions in this litigation to the Northern District of California and, with the consent of that court, assigned them to the Honorable George H. Boldt, sitting by designation, for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407. In re Sugar Industry Antitrust Litigation, 395 F.Supp. 1271 (Jud.Pan.Mult.Lit.1975). As of August 1976, 39 tag-along actions pending in fourteen various federal district courts had been transferred to the Northern District of California by the Panel for…

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