IN RE AMERICA ONLINE, INC.

No. 00-1341.

168 F.Supp.2d 1359 (2001)

In re AMERICA ONLINE, INC. Version 5.0 Software Litigation.

United States District Court, S.D. Florida.

April 19, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justin Graem Witkin, Levin Middlebrooks Mabie Thomas, Mitchell et al, Pensacola, FL, Joseph Michael Matthews, Colson Hicks Eidson Colson et al, Coral Gables, Fl, Mila F. Bartos, Finkelstein Thompson & Loughran, Washington, DC, Daniel C. Girard, Girard & Green, San Francisco, CA, Lloyd W. Gathings, II, Gathings & Associates, Birmingham, AL, Daniel R. Karon, Gallagher Sharp Fulton & Norman, Cleveland, OH, Joseph P. Danis, Carey & Danis, St. Louis, MO, Thomas Frederic Gonzalez, Charles T. Wiggins, J. Nixon Daniel, III, Beggs & Lane, Pensacola, FL, James Richard Hooper, Orlando, FL, Robert Bruce Carey, Norton Frickey & Associates, Colorado, CO, Steve W. Berman, Sean R. Matt, Hagens & Berman, Seattle, WA, Michael Hyman, Much Shelist Freed Denenberg, Ament Bell & Rubenstein, Chicago, IL, Alan Schulman, Robert S. Gans, Berstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman, San Diego, CA, Kevin P. Roddy, Hagens Berman, Los Angeles, CA, Gordon M. Fauth, Jr., A.J. De Bartolomeo, Eric H. Gibbs, Girard & Green, San Francisco, CA, William S. Lerach, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, CA, John G. Emerson, Jr., The Emerson Firm, Houston, TX, Robert J. Berg, Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz, New York City, Lawrence A. Sucharow, Peter E. Zinman, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow, New York City, William J. Pinilis, Morristown, NJ, Lionel Z. Glancy, Los Angeles, CA, Peter S. Pearlman, Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf, Saddle Brook, NJ, Kevin Yourman, Weiss & Yourman, Los Angeles, CA, Michael D. Braun, Timothy J. Burke, Stull Stull & Brody, Los Angeles, CA, John Charles Murdock, Jeffrey Goldenberg, Murdock Beck Goldenberg & Benintendi, Cincinnati, OH, Douglas M. Brooks, Gilman & Pastor, Saugus, MA, W. Lewis Garrison, Jr., Romaine S. Scott, III, Garrison Scott Gamlbe & Rosenthal, Birmingham, AL, Jules Brody, Stull Stull & Brody, New York City, Joseph H. Weiss, Weiss & Yourman, New York City, for Ronald Kieves, Jonathan Konetz, Flo Kelly, Patrick B. North, Elizabeth Cofino, Juan Cofino, Mary Beth Bisselle, Donald L. Jaykins, Edwin Reano-Vasquez, Farhad Khazai, Howard Schuman, Christal Schmidt, Margaret P. Henshall, EZ Booking, Inc., Russell A. Hightower, Michael S. Muzio, Eric Lloyd, James M. Felker, David Parker, Michelle L. Irish, Donald T. Rubin, Garry Veak, Scott Goldberg, Olga Vaca, David Drew, Lee Zinman, Mark Lofty, Susan Poplawski, Steven Langert, Melody Munro, Robert Kerr, Jr., Mary Jane Kerr, Vincent C. Kent, M.D., David P. Bershad, Mary D. Rennie, Jasper J. Lovoi, Jr., Joe D. Malley, Antionette Brooks, Matthew Fishman, Susan Fishman, Robin Yarnell, Merk French, Jackey Lee, Connie Dexter Kinser, Eddie Jean Harp, Alan Wayne, Galaxy Internet Services, Inc., Susan Schilling, Frosty Chuba, Scott Wise, Paul Barnes, Patsy Barnes, Custom Call Services, Inc., on behalf of themselves and all other Alabama consumers who installed America Online Version 5.0 Software, Paul Barnes, Patsy Barnes, Metropolitan Marketing Services, Inc., Custom Call Services, Inc., Taylor Robinson, Jerri K. Thaman, Jonathan Rosenblum, Consumer Plaintiffs, and Scott F. Johnson, consolidated plaintiffs.

Joseph Peter Klock, Jr., Robert C.L. Vaughan, Steel Hector & Davis, Miami, FL, Terry C. Young, Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor & Reed, Orlando, FL, Roman P. Wuller, Robert J. Wagner, Thompson Coburn, St. Louis, MS, B. John Pendleton, Jr., McCarter & English, Newark, NJ, Mia Higgins, Kirkland & Ellis, New York City, Eugene F. Assaf, Thomas D. Yannucci, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, James Eugene Burke, Keating Muething & Klekamp, Cincinnati, OH, Michael J. Beck, Clerk of the Panel, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, Washington, DC, John A. DeSisto, Featherstone DeSisto, Denver, CO, Andrew J. Berman, James T. Fousekis, Lisa M. Sitkin, Steinhart & Falconer, San Francisco, CA, George Allan Van Fleet, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, for America Online, Inc., defendants.

Henk Brands, Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd & Evans, Washington, DC, for Software & Information Industry Association.


ORDER ON DEFENDANT'S MOTIONS TO DISMISS

GOLD, District Judge.

THIS CAUSE is before the court upon the defendant America OnLine, Inc's ("AOL") motions to dismiss (DE # 95. 97). There are two classifications of plaintiffs in this case: the individual consumers ("consumers") and the Internet Service Providers ("ISPs"). Each of these plaintiff groups has filed a complaint against AOL, and these cases have been consolidated under the above...

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