Goodman et al v. J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc.

Filing 73

ORDER granting 61 Motion to Consolidate Cases. Signed by Judge Gregory L. Frost on 2/18/16. (kn)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
EASTERN DIVISION

NANCY GOODMAN, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
Case No. 2:14-cv-414
JUDGE GREGORY L. FROST
Magistrate Judge Norah McCann King

v.
J.P. MORGAN INVESTMENT
MANAGEMENT, INC.,
Defendant.

CAMPBELL FAMILY TRUST, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
Case No. 2:15-cv-2923
JUDGE GREGORY L. FROST
Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Jolson

v.
J.P. MORGAN INVESTMENT
MANAGEMENT, INC., et al.,
Defendants.

ORDER
This matter is before the Court for consideration of Plaintiffs’ Joint Motion to
Consolidate and Memorandum in Support (ECF No. 61 in 2:14-cv-414; ECF No. 20 in 2:15-cv2923) and Defendants’ Response to Plaintiffs’ Motion to Consolidate (ECF No. 69 in 2:14-cv414; ECF No. 36 in 2:15-cv-2923). In the motion, Plaintiffs ask this Court to consolidate the
captioned cases pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42(a). In their response, Defendants
indicate that they do not oppose consolidation and that the parties would present the Court with a

proposed consolidated case schedule. The parties subsequently proposed a schedule in their joint
Rule 26(f) report. (ECF No. 72 in 2:14-cv-414; ECF No. 39 in 2:15-cv-2923.)
The Court GRANTS the motion to consolidate. (ECF No. 61 in 2:14-cv-414; ECF No.
20 in 2:15-cv-2923.) The Clerk shall reassign case no. 2:15-cv-2923 to the docket of Magistrate
Judge Norah McCann King, the Magistrate Judge to whom the first-filed case was assigned, who
can then proceed to conduct the continued preliminary pretrial conference for the consolidated
cases. The undersigned has no issue with the parties’ proposed schedule, subject to any
necessary modification by the Magistrate Judge, and notes that a decision on the motion to
dismiss in case no. 2:15-cv-2923 will be filed soon so that the amendment of the pleadings
deadline discussed in the joint Rule 26(f) report should be April 15, 2016. (ECF No. 72 in 2:14cv-414, at Page ID # 769 ¶ 5(a); ECF No. 39 in 2:15-cv-2923, at Page ID # 516 ¶ 5(a).) The
parties shall file all future filings in both cases and using both case captions.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
/s/ Gregory L. Frost
GREGORY L. FROST
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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