Gesell v. Commonwealth Edison Co.

ORDER

SCOTT, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiffs Leonard Gesell and Lathan Montgomery’s Motion for Class Certification (d/e 24).1 For the reasons stated below, Plaintiffs’ Motion is DENIED.

Commonwealth Edison (“ComEd”) is a large utility which provides electricity services to customers in northern Illinois. In the 1990s, ComEd had four large areas of business concentration: (1) customer service, (2) generation, (3) transmission, and (4) distribution. The generation section was divided into fossil fuel and nuclear generation sections. Plaintiffs Gesell and Montgomery…