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MDL No. 21- 1033

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IN RE ASTROWORLD LITIGATION
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ON REVIEW BY THE MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION PANEL
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PER CURIAM

A Joint Agreed Motion For Transfer to Pretrial Court and Immediate Stay (“Agreed
Motion”) was filed on December 1, 2021 by plaintiffs and principal defendants in 275 lawsuits.1
On December 21, 2012 the movants filed a Notice of Filing of First Supplement to Appendix A
(Related Cases) to Motion to Transfer and Immediate Stay and Motion to Clarify December 8,
2021 Stay Order. The supplemental Appendix A lists an additional 177 lawsuits for a total of 387
lawsuits. A response was filed opposing the Agreed Motion, but that opposition has now been
withdrawn.
The Agreed Motion alleges the lawsuits arise out of incidents leading up to, during and
following a live performance by Travis Scott during the Astroworld Festival outside NRG Park on
November 5, 2021. These incidents are collectively referred to in the Agreed Motion as the
Incident.
We conclude that the cases arising out of the Incident are related, and we find that transfer
of those case would result in more efficient pretrial of the related cases. We limit the scope of this
MDL to those cases listed in Appendix A of the Agreed Motion, the supplement to Appendix A
filed December 21, 2021, and any tag-along cases.2
We grant the motion to transfer, and we will appoint the MDL Pretrial Judge and designate
an MDL Pretrial Court by a separate order. Existing stays will remain in place until appointment
of the MDL Pretrial Judge.

 
1
See TEX. GOV'T CODE § 74.162; TEX. R. JUD. ADMIN. 13.3(a). 
2
 Rule 13 defines tag-along cases as follows: “[t]ag-along case means a case related to cases in an MDL transfer order
but not itself the subject of an initial MDL motion or order.” See TEX. R. JUD. ADMIN. 13.2(g).

 
CHAIR OF THE PANEL PRESIDING JUDGE DAVID L. EVANS, CHIEF JUSTICE JOSH R.
MORRISS, III, JUSTICE KEN WISE, JUDGE SID HARLE, AND JUSTICE LEANNE
JOHNSON CONCUR.

OPINION DELIVERED: January 26, 2022.