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Nature of Suit Code: 310
Nature of Suit: Airplane Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Airline Crash

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UNITED STATES JUDICIAL PANEL

on 

MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION

IN RE: AIR CRASH AT SAN FRANCISCO,

CALIFORNIA, ON JULY 6, 2013 MDL No. 2497

ORDER

Before the Panel: On December 13, 2013, the Panel centralized this litigation, which *

consisted of nine actions pending in the Northern District of California and one action (Yang) pending

in the Northern District of Illinois. On December 16, 2013, the Northern District of Illinois issued

a remand ruling covering Yang and seven other related actions pending in the Northern District of

Illinois. The Yang plaintiffs, in a letter to the Panel, suggest that the litigation has lost its multidistrict

character with the remand of Yang. Plaintiffs also request that the Panel withdraw its December 13

transfer order and offer the litigants “guidance as to how to proceed in this situation.” Plaintiffs in

the seven other related cases subject to the Northern District of Illinois court’s December 16 remand

order support the Yang plaintiffs’ positions. The Boeing Co. opposes plaintiffs’ requests.

Subsequent events have confirmed the effectiveness of the Panel’s transfer of Yang. On

December 17, 2013, Judge Harry D. Leinenweber vacated his order of remand with respect to the

Yang action because that case had already been transferred to the Northern District of California,

depriving the Northern District of Illinois court of jurisdiction to remand Yang to state court. 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407(c)(ii), Panel Rule 2.1(d) 

and the rulings of the Northern District of Illinois court in Yang, the Panel’s order transferring Yang

remains in effect. 

PANEL ON MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION

_________________________________________

 John G. Heyburn II 

 Chairman

Paul J. Barbadoro Charles R. Breyer

Lewis A. Kaplan Sarah S. Vance

Ellen Segal Huvelle

 Judge Marjorie O. Rendell took no part in the disposition of this matter. *

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