Pet food class action

About 75 class action suits have been filed against Menu Foods, the company that recalled canned pet food made with contaminated wheat gluten. Seattle pet owners part of class-action suit over tainted food, Seattle P-I, May 27, 2007.

Seattle lawyers Tom Baisch (Myers & Co.) and Steve Berman (Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro) say they have consulted with more than 500 potential plaintiffs.
About 75 class action suits have been filed against Menu Foods.

Also quoted in the article is Adam Karp, who teaches an animal law class at the UW.

The article says that a panel of judges in Las Vegas will decide on Thursday where the 75 class action cases should be heard. That panel is the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The cases are listed on pp. 19-20 of its hearing list for May 31. There are three motions: one plaintiff moves for the cases (or certain of them) to be centralized in C.D. Cal.; one plaintiff moves for them to be centralized in S.D. Fla.; and five plaintiffs (from five separate suits) move for them to be centralized in W.D. Wash. An introductory brochure about the JPML is here.