Legal Opinion
In re FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., Employment Practices Litigation
District Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided April 28, 2017No. Case No. 3:05-MD-527 RLM (MDL 1700)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
Robert L. Miller, Jr., Judge
Twenty proposed class actions in this multi-district litigation docket came before me on March 13-14 for fairness hearings. The cases are on limited remand from the court of appeals, where nineteen of them awaited resolution. The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation centralized the cases under 28 U.S.C. § 1407, but the cases haven’t been consolidated, so each proposed settlement must be examined separately.
I. History of the MDL Docket
In July 2005, the JPMDL granted (over the plaintiffs’ objections) FedEx Ground’s second request to centralize…
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