Rice v. Bellsouth Advertising & Publishing Corp.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

THORNBURG, District Judge.

THIS MATTER is before the Court on the Plaintiffs’ Objections to the Memorandum and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge Max 0. Cogburn, Jr. Plaintiffs filed their original complaint in the General Court of Justice for the State of North Carolina, Superior Court Division, Buncombe County. Defendants removed the action to this Court on May 13, 2002, and filed their motion to dismiss or, alternatively, to transfer.

Pursuant to standing Orders of Designation and 28 U.S.C. § 636, this Court referred the Defendants’ motion to the Magistrate…