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June 18, 2007
Honorable Gregory M. Sleet
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Dear Judge Sleet; e-e· · ··~e »»~...... V ,L___
Enclosed is a copy of a letter directed to the Clerk of your district advising that the above-referenced
litigation has been transferred to you under 28 U.S.C. § 1407. The materials referenced in today's letter are
enclosed for your convenience.
As you may know, all multidistrict litigation statistics are maintained by this office and submitted to
the Administrative Office for inclusion in the Annual Report of the Director. Consequently, once yearly we
will verify with your Clerk the actual number and status of the actions assigned to you, including actions
added to the docket either by transfer of tag-along actions or additional related actions originally filed in your
district. A copy of our inquiry to your Clerk will be directed to you for your information.
We have a Citrix remote access server for use by transferee courts in accessing our database for
information regarding assigned multidistrict litigation. The server can be accessed by you if you have a
Windows based personal computer with DCN access. Our database contains transferor and transferee
information for each action transferred by the Panel and actions filed in your district. Counsel identified in
the database are those who made appearances in the transferor districts, counsel who filed appearances before
the Panel and counsel assigned by you as liaison counsel. Also, each individual action is tracked from the
date of transfer to termination either by dismissal, remand to transferor district, remand to state court, etc. If
you are interested in utilizing the server, please feel free to contact our Systems Administrator, Al Ghiorzi, to
establish a password and receive instructional information.

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· l ·Your attention is directed to Rule 7.6 0f the Rules of Procedure of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict
, 199 F.R.D. 425, 436-38 (2001), dealing with termination and remand of actions transferred by the
Panel. Specifically, the mle states, in part, the following:
(a) Actions terminated in the transferee district court by valid judgment, including but
not limited to summary judgment, judgment of dismissal and judgment upon stipulation, shall
not be remanded by the Panel and shall be dismissed by the transferee district cotut ....
(b) Each action transferred only for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings
that has not been terminated in the transferee district court shall be remanded by the Panel to ·
the transferor district for trial ....
_ (c) The Panel shall consider remand of each transferred action or any separable claim,
cross-claim, counterclaim or third-party claim at or before the conclusion of coordinated or
consolidated pretrial proceedings on...suggestion of the transferee district cotut ....
We will promptly act upon any written notices from you that remand of actions or separable claims
transferred under Section 1407 is appropriate.
Please be sure the Panel receives copies of pertinent orders filed by you in this litigation. Also, if you
appoint liaison counsel, in your pretrial order outlining liaison counsel's responsibilities, please consider
reinforcing Panel Rule 5.2(e), which provides: ` 7
If following transfer of any group of multidistrict litigation, the transferee district court
appoints liaison counsel, this Rule [Panel Rule 5.2, Service of Papers Filed Before the Panel] ‘ V
shall be satisfied by serving each party in each affected action and all liaison counsel. Liaison
counsel designated by the transferee district court shall receive copies of all Panel orders `
concerning their particular litigation and shall be responsible for distribution to the parties for
whom he or she serves as liaison counsel.
Please feel free to contact this office if we may be of assistance to you. I
Very truly,
Catherine D. Maida
Chief Deputy Clerk
By ri Selma
Deputy Clerk
Enclosures
cc: Clerk, United States District Court
for the District of Delaware
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