Legal Opinion
O'Brien v. Encotech Construction Services, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided January 23, 2002No. 00 C 1133PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
GOTTSCHALL, District Judge.
Before the court is plaintiffs’ Motion for Reconsideration of this court’s order of September 19, 2001. For the reasons stated herein, the motion is granted. The court reconsiders its September 19 order and voids the releases signed by members of the plaintiff class in their entirety.
On September 27, 2000, after the removal of this case to this court and shortly after the conclusion of an unsuccessful settlement conference with the assigned magistrate judge, defendant Frank, the owner of defendant Encotech, called all of Enco-tech’s…
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