In Re Bomb Disaster at Roseville, Cal., on April 28

OPINION

MacBRIDE, Chief Judge.

The United States has moved the court in the referenced cases to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction plaintiffs’ claims which are premised on absolute liability for the miscarriage of an ultrahazardous activity and strict liability in tort. These cases are now consolidated for pretrial purposes pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407(a) as Multidistrict Docket Litigation (MDL) Number 207.

All of these cases arise out of the explosion of eighteen bomb laden boxcars in Southern Pacific Transportation Company’s Antelope Yard in Roseville, California. The bombs had been manufactured…