In Re Multidistrict Private Civil Treble Damage Litigation Involving Plumbing Fixtures

OPINION AND ORDER

The Plumbing Fixture Litigation pending in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania before Judge Alexander Harvey II now consists of approximately 345 actions. Approximately 325 actions have been transferred to Judge Harvey in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania pursuant to the Panel’s Rule 12, authorizing the entry of Conditional Transfer Orders in tag-along cases. The Leslie Plumbing case,- originally filed in the Northern District of Illinois, was thought to be such a tag-along case and a Conditional Transfer Order was entered in that action in May of 1971. After the…