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 PUBLIC LAW 90-297-APR. 29, 1968

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Panel circuit and district judges.

Judicial review. 62 Stat. 944.

Rules of conduct. 28 USC app. Exemption. "Antitrust laws."

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and conclusions of law based upon such record. Orders of transfer and such other orders as the panel may make thereafter shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the transferee district and shall be effective when thus filed. The clerk of the transferee district court shall forthwith transmit a certified copy of the panel's order to transfer to the clerk of the district court from which the action is being transferred. An order denying transfer shall be filed in each district wherein there is a case pending in which the motion for transfer has been made. " (d) The judicial panel on multidisitrict litigation shall consist of seven circuit and district judges designated from time to time by the Chief Justice of the United States, no two of whom shall be from the same circuit. The concurrence of four members shall be necessary to any action by the panel. (e) No proceedings for review of any order of the panel may be permitted except by extraordinary writ pursuant to the provisions of title 28, section 1651, United States Code. Petitions for an extraordinary writ to review an order of the panel to set a transfer hearing and other orders of the panel issued prior to the order either directing or denying transfer shall be filed only in the court of appeals having jurisdiction over the district in which a hearing is to be or has been held. Petitions for an extraordinary writ to review an order to transfer or orders subsequent to transfer shall be filed onl^ in the court of appeals having jurisdiction over the transferee district. There shall be no appeal or review of an order of the panel denying a motion to transfer for consolidated or coordinated proceedings. " (f) The panel may prescribe rules for the conduct of its business not inconsistent with Acts of Congress and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. " (g) Nothing in this section shall apply to any action in which the United States is a complainant arising under the antitrust laws. 'Antitrust laws' as used herein include those acts referred to in the Act of October 15, 1914, as amended (38 Stat. 730; 15 U.S.C. 12), and also include the Act of June 19, 1936 (49 Stat. 1526; 15 U.S.C. 13,13a, and 13b) and the Act of September 26, 1914, as added March 21, 1938 (52 Stat. 116, 117; 15 U.S.C. 56); but shall not include section 4A of the Act of October 15, 1914, as added July 7, 1955 (69 Stat. 282; 15 U.S.C. 15a)." SEC. 2. The analysis to chapter 87 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting the following new section: "1407. Multidistrict litigation."

after "1406. Cure or waiver of defects."

Approved April 29, 1968. Public Law 90-297 April 29, 1968 [S.2912]

Saline water conversion program. Appropriations. 75 Stat. 629; 81 Stat. 78.

AN ACT To authorize appropriations for the saline water conversion program for fiscal year 1960, and for other purixtses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 8 of the Saline Water Conversion Act (66 Stat. 328), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1951 et seq.) is further amended to read as follows: "SE(^. 8. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, to remain available until expended, as may be specified in annual appro-

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