Opinion
MDL 1446, CIVIL ACTION NO. H-01-3624, CONSOLIDATED CASES, CIVIL ACTION NO. H-01-3913, CONSOLIDATED CASES, CIVIL ACTION NO. H-03-3320
August 29, 2003
ORDER OF COORDINATION
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has transferred Choucroun, et al. v. Arthur Andersen, et al., now designated H-03-3320, to this Court as part of MDL 1446 for coordinated discovery with cases currently pending before the undersigned judge. The controlling pleading, Plaintiffs' Second Amended Petition, grounded solely in Texas state law, represents that Plaintiffs are current and former owners of Enron stock and that their retirement funds and their investments were reduced by Enron's financial collapse. Thus the suit arises from many of the same facts and makes allegations against many of the same parties as Newby (H-01-3624) and Tittle (H-01-3913), but is not based on federal law and therefore should not be consolidated with those class actions. Accordingly, the Court
ORDERS that H-03-3320 shall be designated a "coordinated" case and part of MDL 1446. To ensure that counsel receive all relevant pleadings and orders, the docketing clerk shall enter the case as a "coordinated" case on the docket sheets of Newby and Tittle.