In re Yosemite National Park Hantavirus Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

JOHN G. HEYBURN II, Chairman.

Before the Panel: Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, the United States of America moves to centralize this litigation in the Eastern District of California. This litigation currently consists of four actions pending in the Eastern District of California, the Northern District of California, and the Middle District of Pennsylvania, as listed on Schedule A.1 These actions involve claims for personal injury and wrongful death arising from a hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite National Park in the summer of 2012.

The concessionaire defendants2 support…