Legal Opinion
In re Alcon Shareholder Litigation
Texas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided May 6, 2010No. 10-0115PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
*123ON REVIEW BY THE MULTIDIS-TRICT LITIGATION PANEL
2Opinion of the Court · BrownJustice Brown
Novartis AG, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, has moved the panel to transfer four lawsuits to a pretrial court. All four cases are shareholder actions challenging Novartis’s bid to wholly acquire Alcon, Inc., a Swiss eye-care company with operations in Fort Worth.1 Although Novartis is the only one of the actions’ fourteen defendants to move for transfer, at least six of the defendants agree that transfer is appropriate.2 Plaintiffs L. Patricia Sam-poli and Joel Krieger object to the transfer.
Rule 13 authorizes us “to transfer ‘related’ cases…
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- In Re Ad Valorem Tax LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 2006
- First Oil PLC v. ATP Oil & Gas Corp., Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2008
- In Re Cano Petroleum, Inc.United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 2008
- In re Digitek® LitigationTexas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 2009
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