Active Products Corp. v. A.H. Choitz & Co.

THE CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER

WILLIAM C. LEE, District Judge.

I. Preamble

On July 19, 1995, a 131-page complaint under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, was filed by twenty-three (23) named plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and some sixty-six (66) other parties who had assigned their rights to the named plaintiffs. Named as defendants are 1,181 individual and corporate entities. The caption of the cause alone spans some twenty-one and one-half (21/¿) pages, single spaced. Even…