In re Commodity Exchange, Inc., Gold Futures & Options Trading Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

JOHN G. HEYBURN II, Chairman.

Before the Panel:* Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, plaintiffs in two actions (Maher and Nalven) pending in the Southern District of New York move for centralization of this litigation in that district. The litigation encompasses the eighteen actions listed on Schedule A, seventeen of which already are pending in the Southern District of New York.1 All responding parties, both plaintiffs and defendants,2 support centralization in that district.3

On the basis of the papers filed and the hearing session held, we are persuaded *1395that centralization under…