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IN RE YARN PROCESSING PATENT VALIDITY LIT.

MDL Docket No. 82.

472 F.Supp. 174 (1979)

In re YARN PROCESSING PATENT VALIDITY LITIGATION.

United States District Court, S. D. Florida.

March 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Armstrong, III, Smathers & Thompson, Miami, Fla., for Lex Tex Ltd., Inc.

C. Reed Guthridge, Blackwell, Walker, Gray, Powers, Flick & Hoehl, Miami, Fla., and Philip G. Koenig, Boston, Mass., for Leesona Corporation.

David Rabin, Greensboro, N. C., for Dow-Badische Co., National Spinning Co., Collins & Aikman and Glen Raven Mills, Inc.

Wallace D. Newcomb, of Paul & Paul, Philadelphia, Pa., for Collins & Aikman.

Henry Burnett, Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Knight, Miami, Fla., for Macfield Texturing, Inc.

Daniel A. Kavanaugh, Miami, Fla., for ARCT and Barmag.

Charles B. Park, III, Charlotte, N. C., for American Barmag Corp. and Barmag.

Joell T. Turner, Bell, Seltzer, Park & Gibson, Charlotte, N. C., for American Barmag Corp. and Barmag Barmer Maschinenfabrik, A. G.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER ON COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL

ATKINS, Chief Judge.

The issue before this Court is whether a transferee court after a 28 U.S.C. § 1407 transfer may prohibit those defendants who have not joined in the action from asserting the defense of collateral estoppel upon those cases' remand to the transferor court. This Court holds that this restraint can be and is hereby imposed.

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