IN RE FEDERAL-MOGUL GLOBAL, INC., (Bankr.D.Del. 2002)

ALFRED M. WOLIN, United States District Judge.

This matter having been opened before the Court upon the several motions of parties, denominated in the prior Orders of the Court as the "Friction Products Defendants," to transfer to this District into the above-captioned proceedings the claims against the movants previously denominated "Friction Products Claims"; and the Court having previously granted this motion on a provisional basis and the Friction Products Claims having already been provisionally transferred to this Court subject to a plenary hearing on the motion to transfer; and the Court having previously given notice to the parties that it would consider arguments directed to subject matter jurisdiction, abstention and remand in ruling upon the movants' applications; and the Court having reviewed the submissions of counsel and heard oral argument; and for the reasons set forth on the record at the hearing on those motions today, as supplemented by a written Opinion to follow; and for good cause shown

It is this 8th day of February 2002

ORDERED that the motions to transfer the Friction Products Claims are denied, and it is further

ORDERED that this Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the Friction Products Claims, and it is further

ORDERED that the Friction Products Claims are remanded to the state courts from which they were removed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1447, and it is further

ORDERED that, in the alternative, the Friction Products Claims are remanded to the state courts from which they were removed pursuant to U.S.C. § 1452.