In Re DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

DAVID R. HANSEN, Acting Chairman.

Before the Panel * : Five motions are currently pending before the Panel, pursu ant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, seeking centralization of this litigation in the Southern District of Texas or the Northern District of Alabama. Defendants 1 support centralization of all cases involving an ASR XL Acetabular Hip System in the Northern District of Indiana, the Northern District of Ohio, or the District of New Jersey.

Responding plaintiffs in various potential tag-along actions also propose centralization in the following districts: the Central and the Northern…