Opinion
MDL DOCKET NO. 1203
January 9, 1998
PRETRIAL ORDER #2
AND NOW, this 7th day of January, 1998 for the purposes of MDL 1203 and until further notice of the transferee court, this order changes the duties of a transferor court under Role 19(a), (b) and (c) of the Rules of procedure of the Judicial Panel on Multidstrict Litigation as follows:
upon receipt of a certified copy of a transfer order from the clerk of the transferee district court, the clerk of the transferor court shall retain the entire original file and forward to the cleric of the transferee district court only a certified copy of both the docket: sheet and the complaints together with amendments, if any. The cleric of the transferor court shall mark the case closed upon transfer to the transferee court Following the docketing of a transfer order in the transferee court, any papers to be filed regarding any civil action covered by that transfer order arc to be filed in the transferee court.