relate not only to the calling of witnesses, but to the process of interviewing and determining which witnesses should be called.
Of these 52 potential witnesses 35 are located in or near Oklahoma City; 7 in Illinois; 4 in Colorado; 2 in Texas; one in Kansas; one in West Virginia; one in Arizona. Only one is located in New York. Thus almost all of these potential witnesses live in Oklahoma, or at places more convenient to Oklahoma than to New York.
The Government has given a statement of the number of its potential witnesses. There are 54 "victim" witnessesapparently the persons who purchased Four Seasons stock as alleged in Counts 2-55. Of these, 32 reside in New York and New Jersey, and only one resides in the Western District ofsome of the prospective witnesses are brokers, analysts, underwriters, and customers who are engaged in business in New York. But the central legal question is the defendants' liability and the common areas of discovery will center on the conduct of the defendants during the registration, issuance, and sale of the securities. The principal defendants, the officers, and directors of the Four Seasons companies, are for the most part Oklahoma residents. Those residing elsewhere can travel to Oklahoma as easily as to New York."
The Panel also noted that the Chapter X reorganization for the Four Seasons *945 companies was in the Western District of Oklahoma.[3]
Of the various judicial decisions on the subject of transfer under Rule 21(b), I believe that the case most closely in point is United States