Legal Opinion
In re Aqua Dots Products Liability Litigation
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided October 4, 2010No. MDL No. 1940; No. 08 C 2364PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
DAVID H. COAR, District Judge.
The lead plaintiffs in this multidistrict litigation filed suit in the wake of the CPSC recall of Aqua Dots, a popular children’s toy tainted with the so-called date rape drug GHB. Now that eleven individual cases have been transferred and consolidated for pretrial purposes in this court, see 28 U.S.C. § 1407, the lead plaintiffs propose to represent fourteen Rule 23(b)(3) classes seeking damages and injunctive relief against the manufacturer, distributor, and three major retailers of Aqua Dots. For the reasons set forth below, their…
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