iPod nano lawsuits moved close to Apple's home

One of the few things I remember from law school is a quote from a Charles Dickens story: "The law is an ass." Well here's a case in which someone in the legal system is thinking with his head, rather than the other end.

Remember the brouhaha about how easily iPod nanos scratch?
There are still a bunch of lawsuits pending against Apple in which disgruntled iPod nano owners complained that the scratchability (is that a word?) of their nanos constitutes a product defect. Those suits were brought in different courts from California to New Jersey to New York to Louisiana. Fortunately for Apple, six of the cases have have been
consolidated and transferred to the Northern District of California court in San Jose, California so they can be heard all at once and close to home.