The Honorable Robert S. Lasnik will be the Chief Judge and will preside over at least three of the nationwide class actions lawsuits against the Park West Gallery gang. The remaining three class actions currently pending in Michigan may be moved as well. Time will tell.

You will recall from an earlier Fine Art Registry® article reporting on the unrelenting, arrogant, and clever legal maneuverings of Park West Gallery and its CEO Albert Scaglione that his kingdom of affiliated companies had motioned the United States Judicial Panel on Multi District Litigation for consolidation of all the class action litigation filed against Park West Gallery to a forum more convenient and favored by Park West Gallery - the Eastern District of Michigan. In the past, Park West Gallery attempted through its long time Florida law firm, Coffey Burlington and specifically (Robert Burlington) to move the Washington class action to Florida, where the playing field for victims isn't so level. These plans were also thwarted by Judge Lasnik.

On August 11, 2009, the United States Judicial Panel ruled that the losers, Park West Gallery and its CEO Scaglione, are stuck litigating in the Western District of Washington while other cases pending against the gallery are raging on in Michigan. The Park West ploy to put all their eggs in one basket in Michigan has failed and rightly so.