Legal Opinion
In Re Ford Motor Company Speed Control Deactivation Switch Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided February 19, 2008No. 07-0953PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
ON REVIEW BY THE JUDICIAL PANEL ON MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION
2Opinion of the Court · LangJustice Lang
Before this Multidistrict Litigation Panel is Ford Motor Co.’s motion to transfer, requesting the transfer of seventy-seven pending cases in twenty-eight counties to a pretrial judge for consolidated and coordinated pretrial proceedings. For the following reasons, Ford’s motion to transfer is granted.
I. FACTUAL CONTEXT AND CONTENTIONS
On November 14, 2007, Ford filed its motion to transfer before this panel. 1 Tracking the language of Texas Rule of Judicial Administration 13.3(a)(2), Ford alleges that seventy-seven cases pending…
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