Major car manufacturers and the maker of defective air bags that have recently been recalled are pushing to have the cases filed against them by affected car owners across the country consolidated in an MDL in Pittsburgh while plaintiffs lawyers are divided over where they want the cases sent.
The initial motion for consolidation of the cases was made at the beginning of November on behalf of nearly 20 plaintiffs asking for the forum to be set in the Southern District of Florida, where U.S. District Senior Judge James Lawrence King has been handling some of them.
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