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IN RE MARCH 7, 2025 AMMONIA RELEASE LITIGATION

Texas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

May 22, 2025

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ORDER OF MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION PANEL

Order Issued July 9, 2025

THE MOTION TO TRANSFER IN THE FOLLOWING CASE

IS GRANTED:

25-0437 IN RE MARCH 7, 2025 AMMONIA RELEASE LITIGATION The Panel on Multidistrict litigation grants the Motion to Transfer¹, filed on May 22, 202. We previously notified the parties of the submission date which has now passed. After considering the Motion to Transfer, the Response, and the Reply, as well as the applicable law, we find that the cases are related because they involve one or more common questions of fact and further that transfer to a specified MDL district court will be for the convenience of the parties and witnesses and will promote the just and efficient conduct of the cases. See, TEX. GOVT. CODE SEC. 74.162; TEX. R. JUD. ADMIN. 13.3. We limit the scope of the MDL Pretrial Court to those cases listed the Appendix to the Motion to Transfer, together with tag-along cases. See TEX. R. JUD. ADMIN. 13.2 (g).

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT:

1. The motion to transfer is granted.

2. The following cases are hereby transferred to the Pretrial Court:

a. All cases listed in Appendix A of the Motion to Transfer; and b. All tag-along cases. See TEX. R. JUD. ADMIN. 13.2 (g).

3. The "Designation of Parties To Serve Request For Transfers And Other Notices On Other Parties In Rule 13 Proceeding" (Designation) signed by the Clerk of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation applies to proceedings before this panel and is not terminated by this order. The Designation does not limit the authority of the Pretrial Judge to designate party representatives in a Pretrial Court.

1 See Defendants Polyvantis Sanford LLC F/K/A Roehm Texas Chemical LLC, Roehm America, LLC, OQ Chemicals Corporation, And Mayekawa U.S.A., Inc's Motion For Transfer To A Multidistrict Litigation Pretrial Court And Request For Stay Of All Trial Court Proceedings

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4. The Panel will issue a second order designating the Pretrial Court and assigned Judge. We direct that notice of the Order be sent to the attorneys of record, the trial courts, and clerks of the respective Courts.

5. Any stay previously granted will be lifted upon the designation of the Pretrial Court and the assigned judge.

CHAIR OF THE PANEL PRESIDING JUDGE DAVID L. EVANS, PRESIDING JUDGE SID

HARLE, JUSTICE LEANNE JOHNSON, JUSTICE KEN WISE, AND PRESIDING JUDGE

GARLAND B. WOODWARD, CONCUR