County of Inyo v. McKinsey and Company, Inc.

Background

This document is Conditional Transfer Order 33 in the multidistrict litigation titled In re: McKinsey & Company, Inc., National Prescription Opiate Consultant Litigation, MDL No. 2996. The schedule lists County of Inyo and other actions as “tag-along actions”—later-filed cases involving factual questions that may overlap with cases already centralized in the multidistrict litigation.

Transfer

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation stated that it had previously transferred 17 civil actions to the Northern District of California for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1407. It stated that 114 additional actions had since been transferred there. The Panel concluded that the actions on this order involved common factual questions and transferred them to the Northern District of California for the reasons stated in its earlier order.

The schedule identifies County of Inyo et al. v. McKinsey and Company, Inc. as case number 22-01340 in the Eastern District of California, Fresno division. The order also lists related actions brought by other counties and cities in California and Oregon.

Ruling and effect

The Panel entered a conditional transfer order and assigned the transferred actions, with the Northern District of California’s consent, to Judge Charles R. Breyer. The order initially provided a seven-day period for objections, during which transmittal would be stayed; the text states that no objection was pending and that the stay was lifted. The order addressed only transfer and pretrial coordination. It did not resolve the underlying claims or defenses.