Pigford v. Veneman

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.

The Court has before it plaintiffs’ motion to endow arbitrators with discretion to extend arbitration deadlines, a joinder in the motion filed by Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP and defendant’s oppositions to both filings. Based on the parties’ written arguments, the Consent Decree and the history of this case, the Court will GRANT plaintiffs’ motion for the following reasons.

Under the Consent Decree that settled this case, the parties agreed that the Arbitrator, Michael Lewis, would conduct hearings to decide all claims for relief under…