In re New Motor Vehicles Canadian Export Antitrust Litigation

229 F.R.D. 35 (2005)

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In re New Motor Vehicles Canadian Export Antitrust Litigation

United States District Court for the District of Maine
229 F.R.D. 35 (2005)

Facts

Twenty-six cases involving federal and state antitrust claims against General Motors and other automotive-industry companies (defendants) were transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Maine. The multidistrict litigation involved a total of 57 plaintiffs, 23 defendants, and 68 attorneys. There were also several dozen parallel state-court actions pending. Working with the parties, the court developed and entered a scheduling order that included discovery and focused on efficiently resolving the federal plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. The scheduling order, which did not include the filing of motions for summary judgment, encompassed all events leading up a hearing on the class-certification motion. After the order was entered but six months before the scheduled hearing on the certification motion, General Motors filed a motion for summary judgment. The motion was not contemplated by the scheduling order, and General Motors did not notify the court or the other parties of its intention to file the motion. The filing by General Motors prompted several other defendants to express the desire to file summary-judgment motions. The plaintiffs filed a motion to stay their response to General Motors’ summary-judgment motion.

Rule of Law

Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Hornby, J.)

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