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A group of seven federal judges, called the Multi-District Litigation Panel, held a hearing last week in Palm Springs, Calif., on where to combine all the federal class-action suits.

The ruling is an early procedural victory for the plaintiffs, whose arguments to transfer the cases to Judge Federico Moreno of Federal District Court in Miami were accepted by the multidistrict litigation panel.

Aetna and its Prudential Health Care unit have asked a committee of federal judges, the Multidistrict Litigation Panel, to consolidate at least eight cases against Aetna and Prudential and transfer them to Philadelphia.

For a while it was looking like a heavyweight showdown of sorts, at least as civil litigation panel discussions go, being billed as the "Battle in the Big Apple," featuring a name attorney from the Weitz & Luxenberg firm at the apex of New York's wildest political scandal in years.

Social Security's disability programs, which provide assistance to 10 million people at a cost of $90 billion a year, are in chaos, swamped with a backlog of claims and litigation, the panel said.

The new location "will serve theconvenience of the parties and witnesses and promote the just and efficient conduct of the litigation," the United States Judicial Panel on Multi district Litigation said.

"There is some truth in the government's effort to portray the taxpayers as having less-than-clean hands in this litigation," the three-judge panel wrote, but they declared that Congress simply had not authorized this IRS strategy.

O'Rourke said in addition to its litigation experts, the government panel known as the Flow Rate Technical Group, assembled by Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, reached a consensus on a 53,000- barrel flow on the final day of the spill.

The judicial panel on multidistrict litigation heard the case last month in Boise, Idaho.

The request, to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, supports a similar request by Verizon Communications.

The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decided on the move, which it said it would promote efficiency.