When the Panel grants centralization, its transfer order names the transferee district and judge and begins routing existing and future 'tag-along' cases there. The order's reasoning — common questions, convenience, efficiency — frames the litigation's scope.
Transfer is pretrial only: cases keep their identity and, formally, their right to return home for trial (see remand and Lexecon rights). Docket watchers read new transfer orders as the starting gun for a tort's institutional phase.
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