Mason v. Smithkline Beecham Clinical Laboratories

ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO TRANSFER

MOORE, District Judge.

THIS CAUSE came before the Court upon Defendants’ Motion to transfer this action to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, filed March 21, 2001.

UPON CONSIDERATION of the Motion, response, reply, and other pertinent portions of the record, and being otherwise fully advised in the premises, the Court enters the following Order.

I. Background

Plaintiffs Candis Mason, and her husband, Michael Halton, allege that in 1995 Mason contracted Hepatitis C when Mason’s blood was drawn using a contaminated,…