Legal Opinion
Mehl v. Canadian Pacific Railway, Ltd.
District Court, D. North Dakota
Decided May 4, 2005No. A4-02-009PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING IN PART PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION
HOVLAND, Chief Judge.
Before the Court is the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification filed on September 2, 2004. On October 1, 2004, the Defendants filed a Motion for an Evidentiary Hearing on Class Certification. For the reasons set forth below, the Court denies the Defendants’ Motion for an Evidentiary Hearing and grants, in part, the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification.
I. BACKGROUND
This matter stems from the derailment of a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train that occurred near Minot, North Dakota, on January 18,…
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