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- Faced with a series of petitions for class actions because of the massive Hurricane Beryl power outage, CenterPoint is seeking transfer to an MDL pretrial court.
- CenterPoint seeks stays of action in four Harris County district court cases and anticipates more lawsuits.
- Two days before the motion to transfer and petition for stays, the state attorney general announced an investigation.
CenterPoint Energy Inc. and its Houston subsidiary approached the Texas Supreme Court this week to request stays on several class action petitions related to hurricane-related power outages.
CenterPoint amassed a large team of law firms, comprising at least 13 attorneys from the Houston offices of Vinson & Elkins, Susman Godfrey, and Shipley Snell Montgomery, for the electric power companies’ motion before the Texas Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation to transfer four lawsuits to a multidistrict litigation pretrial court.
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