Legal Opinion
Burns v. Gerber Products Co.
District Court, E.D. Washington
Decided February 12, 2013No. CV-12-5027-EFSPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO TRANSFER, TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY, AND CLOSING FILE
EDWARD F. SHEA, Senior District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This matter comes before the Court on Defendants Gerber Products Company and Nestlé USA, Inc.’s (collectively, “Defendants”) Motion to Transfer, ECF No. 33. Defendants Gerber Products Company (“Gerber”) and Nestlé USA (“Nestlé”) ask the Court to transfer this case, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a), to the District of New Jersey, where a consolidated class-action suit asserting near-identical claims is currently pending. The Court…
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