Legal Opinion
In Re New Motor Vehicles Canadian Export Antitrust Litigation
District Court, D. Maine
Decided December 18, 2006No. MDL Docket 1532PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISQUALIFY MILBERG WEISS FROM CONTINUING AS COUNSEL IN THIS LITIGATION AND CROSS MOTION OF COUNSEL MICHAEL M. BUCHMAN AND J. DOUGLAS RICHARDS TO BE APPOINTED VICE-CHAIR OF THE PLAINTIFFS’ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
HORNBY, District Judge.
I. Introduction
Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLC (“Milberg Weiss”) is one of the lead counsel in this multimillion dollar complex antitrust civil litigation that has been proceeding before me for the past three years. This year, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted the law firm and two of its named partners.…
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