IN RE GRAPE GROWERS PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

ORDER OF MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION PANEL
Order Pronounced May 3, 2024
TERMINATION OF APPOINTMENT OF PRETRIAL JUDGE IN THE FOLLOWING
MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION CASE:
23-0591 IN RE: GRAPE GROWERS PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION
In 2023, (1) we granted a joint Motion to Transfer in this multidistrict litigation, (2) we
transferred the cases listed in the Motion to Transfer Appendix A and any “tag-along cases”1 to a
Multidistrict Litigation (“MDL”) pretrial court, and (3) we appointed Judge Daniel L. Schaap (ret.)
as the Pretrial Judge and designated the 237th Judicial District Court in Lubbock County, Texas,
as the MDL Pretrial Court.
Judge Schaap has now requested that his appointment be terminated.
After considering Judge Schaap’s request, the reasons he gave for the termination, and the
applicable law, we find that good cause exists for the requested termination of appointment.
We hereby terminate our appointment of the Honorable Judge Daniel L. Schaap (ret.) as
the Pretrial Judge for this MDL matter.
We are in the process of naming a replacement pre-trial judge.
CHAIR OF THE PANEL PRESIDING JUDGE DAVID L. EVANS, JUSTICE KEN WISE,
JUDGE SID HARLE, JUSTICE LEANNE JOHNSON, AND SENIOR JUDGE (RET.) JOSH R.
MORRISS, III, CONCUR.
1“Tag-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 T EX. R. J UD. A DMIN. 13.2(g).