BANETT v. SMITHKLINE

MARIANA PFAELZER, Senior District Judge

On December 19, 2003, the Panel transferred 11 civil actions to the United States District Court for the Central District of California for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407. Since that time, 79 additional actions have been transferred to the Central District of California. With the consent of that court, all such actions have been assigned to the Honorable Mariana R. Pfaelzer.

It appears that the actions on this conditional transfer order involve questions of fact which are common to the actions previously transferred to the Central District of California and assigned to Judge Pfaelzer.

Pursuant to Rule 7.4 of the Rules of Procedure of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 199 F.R.D. 425, 435-36 (2001), these actions are transferred under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 to the Central District of California for the reasons stated in the order of December 19, 2003, 296 F.Supp.2d 1374 (J.P.M.L. 2003), and, with the consent of that court, assigned to the Honorable Mariana R. Pfaelzer.

This order does not become effective until it is filed in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The transmittal of this order to said Clerk shall be stayed fifteen (15) days from the entry thereof and if any party files a notice of opposition with the Clerk of the Panel within this fifteen (15) day period, the stay will be continued until further order of the Panel.