In re Syngenta AG MIR 162 Corn Litigation, 16-2788-JWL. (2018)
Court: District Court, D. Kansas
Number: infdco20181212b85
Visitors: 6
Filed: Dec. 11, 2018
Latest Update: Dec. 11, 2018
Summary: ORDER JAMES P. O'HARA , Magistrate Judge . On November 30, 2018, the undersigned U.S. Magistrate Judge, James P. O'Hara, took under advisement a motion filed by Syngenta (ECF No. 128) to join as plaintiffs five corporate entities affiliated with the current plaintiff, Louis Dreyfus Company Grains Merchandising LLC ("LDC") ( see ECF No. 153). The motion argued the affiliated entities are necessary parties to this action because they are seeking to recover the same damages, based on the sam
Summary: ORDER JAMES P. O'HARA , Magistrate Judge . On November 30, 2018, the undersigned U.S. Magistrate Judge, James P. O'Hara, took under advisement a motion filed by Syngenta (ECF No. 128) to join as plaintiffs five corporate entities affiliated with the current plaintiff, Louis Dreyfus Company Grains Merchandising LLC ("LDC") ( see ECF No. 153). The motion argued the affiliated entities are necessary parties to this action because they are seeking to recover the same damages, based on the same..
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ORDER
JAMES P. O'HARA, Magistrate Judge.
On November 30, 2018, the undersigned U.S. Magistrate Judge, James P. O'Hara, took under advisement a motion filed by Syngenta (ECF No. 128) to join as plaintiffs five corporate entities affiliated with the current plaintiff, Louis Dreyfus Company Grains Merchandising LLC ("LDC") (see ECF No. 153). The motion argued the affiliated entities are necessary parties to this action because they are seeking to recover the same damages, based on the same alleged facts, in a Minnesota state court lawsuit as LDC is here. Finding the record lacking on the damages claimed by each plaintiff in each case, the undersigned directed the parties to confer and attempt to reach a stipulation regarding the nature, extent, and amount of damages claimed by each plaintiff in each case. The court set December 10, 2018, as the deadline for filing such a stipulation.
LDC has filed a motion for extension of the deadline (ECF No. 157). The motion is granted in part. The court extends the deadline for the parties to file a stipulation regarding the nature, extent, and amount of damages claimed by each plaintiff in each case to December 18, 2018. Regarding LDC's expressed concern that the precise amounts of damages cannot be determined until its experts complete their calculations and reports, the court directs that the stipulation should include LDC's best estimates, reached in good faith, of the approximate amounts of damages, rounded to the nearest million-dollar.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
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