In re Domestic Drywall Antitrust Litigation

MEMORANDUM RE PLAINTIFFS SUPPLYING FACTUAL INFORMATION SUPPORTING ALLEGATIONS

BAYLSON, District Judge.

The issue presented is whether Plaintiffs must provide facts supporting Plaintiffs’ allegations—a frequent issue in antitrust litigation. The Court concludes, because of *229Plaintiffs’ counsel’s felicitous access to electronically stored information, that Plaintiffs must provide a pretrial statement setting forth the facts they now have, and Defendants must subsequently reciprocate.

Ignoring the capabilities which ESI allows the parties to search for and produce factual information in a case of…