Rice v. Electrolux Home Products, Inc.

Filing 183

ORDER (memorandum filed previously as separate docket entry) - IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiffs' 160 Ex Parte Motion to Allow Alternative Service on Defendants Midea Microwave and Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Sharp Appliances Thailand Limited Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(f)(3) is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. (See Order for further/complete details.) Signed by Honorable Matthew W. Brann on 10/15/2018. (jr)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
ELAINE RICE, ALEX KUKICH,
ERIKA MENDOZA, JAMES HUNT,
and DEAN MAURO, Individually, and
on behalf of all others similarly situated,

No. 4:15-CV-00371
(Judge Brann)

Plaintiffs,
v.
ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS,
INC., SHARP MANUFACTURING
COMPANY OF AMERICA, a division
of SHARP ELECTRONICS
CORPORATION; SHARP
APPLIANCES THAILAND LIMITED;
MIDEA AMERICA CORP.; MIDEA
MICROWAVE AND ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING
CO., LTD; LOWE’S HOME CENTERS,
LLC; MODESTO DIRECT
APPLIANCE, INC.; and ABC CORP. 110,

Defendants.
ORDER
AND NOW, this 15th day of October 2018, in accordance with the
accompanying memorandum opinion, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:
1.

Plaintiffs’ Ex Parte Motion to Allow Alternative Service on
Defendants Midea Microwave and Electrical Appliances
Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Sharp Appliances Thailand Limited
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(f)(3), April 30, 2018,
ECF No. 160 is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part.

2.

Plaintiffs are to serve the Amended Consolidated Class Action
Complaint on Midea Microwave and Electrical Appliances
Manufacturing, Company, Limited through the Central Authority of
the People’s Republic of China pursuant to Hague Conference on
Private International Law and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(h)
and 4(f)(1).

3.

Service of the Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint on
Sharp Appliances Thailand Limited shall be effectuated by the Clerk
pursuant to Rule 4(h) and 4(f)(2)(C)(ii), which requires “mail that the
clerk addresses and sends to the [corporation] and that requires a
signed receipt” at the following address: 64 MOO 5 Tambol
Bansamuk, Amphur, BangPakong, Chachoengsao Province, Thailand.

BY THE COURT:

s/ Matthew W. Brann
Matthew W. Brann
United States District Judge

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