IN RE LONG DISTANCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LITIGATION

MDL No. 598, Civ. No. 84CV4801DT.

598 F.Supp. 951 (1984)

In re LONG DISTANCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LITIGATION. Seymour LAZAR, an Individual on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. MCI COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, MCI Telecommunications Corporation, and Does I through X, inclusive, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D.

December 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Mangione, Law Offices of James A. Mangione, San Diego, Cal., for Seymour Lazar.

Fay Clayton, Sachnoff, Weaver & Rubenstein, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for Certified Collateral Corp., Earl E. Olive and David H. Locks.

Michael J. Freed, Chicago, Ill., for Euromarket Designs, Inc. d/b/a Crate & Barrel.

Karl L. Cambronne, Chestnut & Brooks, P.A., Minneapolis, Minn., for McIntosh Embossing, Inc.

Gerald D. Miller, Miller, Hochman & Myerson, Jersey City, N.J., for Mark Hochman, et al.

Grant S. Lewis, LeBouef, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City, for United States Transmission Systems, Inc.

Mitchell S. Goldgehn, Greenberg Keele Lunn & Aronberg, Chicago, Ill., for Allnet Communication Services, Inc.

Richard J. Gray, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for MCI Telecommunications Corp.

Howard G. Kristol, Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol, New York City, for GTE Corp., GTE Spring Communications Corp., GTE Automatic Elec. Corp., Southern Pacific Co., Southern Pacific Communication Co. and Southern Pacific Satellite Co.

John Havas, Foulkrod, Reynolds & Havas, Harrisburg, Pa., for Lilly M. Feitler, etc.

Nicholas Chimicles, Greenfield, Chimicles & Lewis, Haverford, Pa., for A. Linda Leventhal, etc.

Robert P. Hurlbert, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for Western Union Telegraph Co.

Michael W. Ward, O'Keefe, Ashenden, Lyons & Ward, Chicago, Ill., for U.S. Telephone of the Midwest, Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ANNA DIGGS TAYLOR, District Judge.

This cause comes before the court on plaintiff's motion for remand to the California state court. For the reasons outlined below, plaintiff's motion is denied, and this cause is consolidated with the other federal actions transferred to this district court for pre-trial management by the Multidistrict Litigation Panel on August 27, 1984.

On May 16, 1984, plaintiff filed this class action...

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