MDL Panel Starts Moving Cases from March Session

By Barry Barnett on April 13, 2009

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has begun ruling on transfer motions it heard on March 26 in San Diego. The Panel granted transfer and centralization in five MDL matters, denied one, deemed one moot, and declined to reconsider another.

The results:

Transfers (transferee court in parentheses)

MDL No. 2020 — In re Aetna, Inc., Out-of-Network “UCR” Rates Litig. (D.N.J.)
MDL No. 2021 — In re Le-Nature’s, Inc. Commercial Litig. (W.D. Pa.)
MDL No. 2022 — In re Payless ShoeSource, Inc., Calif. Song-Beverly Credit Card Act Litig. (E.D. Cal.)
MDL No. 2027 — In re Satyam Computer Services, Ltd. Securities Litig. (S.D.N.Y.)
MDL No. 2029 — In re Online DVD Rental Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Cal.)

No Transfer

MDL No. 2026 — In re AriZona Beverage Co. Product Mktg. and Sales Practices Litig. (Denied)
MDL No. 2038 — In re Honda Mfg. of Alabama, LLC, and Honda of Am. Mfg., Inc., Employee Retirement and Income Security Act (ERISA) Litig. (Moot)

No Reconsideration

MCP-103 — In re Environmental Protection Agency, Final General Permit: Final National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Discharges Incidental to the Normal Operation of a Vessel, 73 Fed. Reg. 79,743, Published on Dec. 29, 2008, Issued on Jan. 12, 2009 (Denied)