In re Needham Excavating, Inc.

SARAH S. VANCE, Chair

Before the Panel: Needham Excavating, Inc. (NEI) moves under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 to centralize pretrial proceedings in this litigation in the Southern District of Iowa. The litigation consists of two actions listed on the attached Schedule A: an action *1368in the Southern District of Iowa (in which NEI is the plaintiff) and an action in the Northern District of Illinois (in which NEI is the defendant). Plaintiffs in the Northern District of Illinois action support centralization, but in the Northern District of Illinois.1

On the basis of the papers filed and the hearing held, we…