Filed: Nov. 10, 2014
Latest Update: Nov. 10, 2014
Summary: ORDER 1 SHERI POLSTER CHAPPELL, District Judge. This matter comes before the Court on review of the docket. Plaintiff David Chaves filed a complaint against Defendants Zimmer, Inc., Zimmer Holdings, Inc., and Zimmer Orthopaedic [sic] Surgical Products, Inc. on October 31, 2012. ( Doc. #1 ). Then on November 14, 2012, this matter was transferred to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) to join other similarly situated cases. ( Doc. #4 ). Accordingly, the United States District
Summary: ORDER 1 SHERI POLSTER CHAPPELL, District Judge. This matter comes before the Court on review of the docket. Plaintiff David Chaves filed a complaint against Defendants Zimmer, Inc., Zimmer Holdings, Inc., and Zimmer Orthopaedic [sic] Surgical Products, Inc. on October 31, 2012. ( Doc. #1 ). Then on November 14, 2012, this matter was transferred to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) to join other similarly situated cases. ( Doc. #4 ). Accordingly, the United States District C..
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ORDER1
SHERI POLSTER CHAPPELL, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on review of the docket. Plaintiff David Chaves filed a complaint against Defendants Zimmer, Inc., Zimmer Holdings, Inc., and Zimmer Orthopaedic [sic] Surgical Products, Inc. on October 31, 2012. (Doc. #1). Then on November 14, 2012, this matter was transferred to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) to join other similarly situated cases. (Doc. #4). Accordingly, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois reviewed the transferred matter to coordinate or consolidate pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407. See 802 F.Supp.2d 1374 (J.P.M.L. 2011). Later on October 27, 2014, the MDL issued a Conditional Remand Order requiring the parties pursuant to Rule 10.4(a) of the Rules of Procedure of the MDL to furnish the Clerk for the Northern District of Illinois with a stipulation or designation of the contents of the record to be remanded. (Doc. #8). Thereafter, this matter was reassigned to the undersigned. (Doc. #9).
Upon review of the record and the need to effectuate judicial efficiency, the parties shall: (1) jointly provide a synopsis of the underlying MDL proceeding; (2) jointly provide a status as to whether the parties have provided a stipulation or designation of the contents of the record to be remanded to the Clerk for the Northern District of Illinois; and (3) meet and confer to provide a joint proposed scheduling order, including trial date, of this matter. The parties shall provide this information no later than December 8, 2014. Plaintiff is directed to supply a copy of this Order to Defendants as Defendants have not appeared on the instant docket yet.
DONE and ORDERED.
