Cockrell v. Wyeth

MEMORANDUM AND PRETRIAL ORDER NO. _

BARTLE, District Judge.

THIS DOCUMENT RELATES TO:

The issue before the court is whether each plaintiff whose claims have been severed in a multi-plaintiff action must pay the $150 filing fee under 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a).

*541The undersigned is overseeing the nationwide class action settlement as well as the multidistrict litigation involving Wyeth’s diet drugs Pondimin and Redux which were withdrawn from the market in September, 1997. Under the court approved nationwide class action Settlement Agreement (“Settlement Agreement”), a Trust funded by Wyeth1 was…