Legal Opinion
Asbestos Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 24, 1997No. 87 Civ. 8085(RWS), 88 Civ. 4214(RWS), 90 Civ. 3473(RWS), 92 Civ. 3900(RWS), 92 Civ. 3901(RWS), 94 Civ. 7177(RWS)PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SWEET, District Judge.
Defendant Raymark Industries, Inc. (“Raymark”) has moved to dismiss, stay or transfer four of six asbestos actions consolidated for trial before this Court.
For the reasons set forth below this motion is denied.
Prior Proceedings
This action concerns five of six consolidated claims from the so-called “asbestos eases” that have been supervised by the MultiDistrict Litigation Panel for discovery and pretrial purposes.
Each of these actions was originally filed in the Southern District of New York and subsequently transferred by order of the Multi-District Litigation…
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