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- ilnd;;1:18-cv-01306_de80 RegisterActionDate "2020-05-26" @default.
- ilnd;;1:18-cv-01306_de80 RegisterActionDescriptionText "MINUTE entry before the Honorable Jeffrey Cole: On May 14th, recruited counsel for Plaintiff in 17-cv-5331 contacted Judge Chang's courtroom deputy to report that Plaintiff, the recruited lawyers, and ASA Comi (for the County defendants) had all agreed to a global settlement conference covering cases 17-cv-5331; 18-cv-1301; 18-cv-1305; 18-cv-1306; 18-cv-1370; 18-cv-1371; and 18-cv-3290. Judge Chang referred the case here that day to arrange for and conduct a global settlement conference. All told, the roster for this group of cases appears to include 15 attorneys, about 49 defendants, and the plaintiff, who is proceeding pro se in a couple of these actions. The claims in the cases cover multiple incidents spanning a period of about two years. Plaintiff's issues with the nearly 50 defendants range from being denied use of a bathroom, to being denied a kosher meal, to a fight with an inmate, to negligent medical treatment, and beyond. Obviously, under ordinary circumstances, the logistics of such an all-encompassing conference, even in person, would be daunting, to say the least. Given the pandemic and public health concerns, it seems apparent that the conference must be conducted electronically. Given all the attendant circumstances it seems safe to say there could not be a more challenging settlement conference than the global conference desired by the parties and their counsel. And to this should be added the (unmentioned) fact that the plaintiff appears to be in Lebanon, eight time zones away. 18-cv-1306, 69 . It does not appear from the Docket that a written status report has been filed in any of these cases. The only monetary demands presently in play (at least so far as the docket reveals) indicate that plaintiff has asked for damages ranging between $10 million and $20 million in these cases. As the causes of action are all two years old or older, and in light of the request to Judge Chang, we assume that counsel for the parties have conducted informal negotiations off and on over those years and are a good deal closer together than that. But, how close it is impossible to say and can only be determined once we have spoken with counsel, and the attorneys submit the settlement letters envisioned by my Standing Orders for Settlement, which may be found on my website. For the time being, however, all that is uncertain and in the future. For now, attorney Christopher Werner should contact my Courtroom Deputy, Yulonda Thomas, at Yulonda_Thomas@ilnd.uscourts.gov, along with ASA Comi, for the purposes of establishing a date and time for an immediate telephonic conference with the court so that we may discuss how best to proceed and to accomplish Judge Chang's directives and the parties' wise decision to seek resolution of these cases by means other than by trial, with all the expense and incalculable uncertainty that will necessarily attend them. See In re Folding Carton Antitrust Litig., 84 F.R.D. 245, 266 (N.D. Ill. 1979)(Will, J.). Mailed notice (yt) (Entered: 05/26/2020)" @default.
- ilnd;;1:18-cv-01306_de80 AdministrativeID "78" @default.
- ilnd;;1:18-cv-01306_de80 OntologyLabel minute_entry @default.
- ilnd;;1:18-cv-01306_de80 hasReferenceToOtherEntry ilnd;;1:18-cv-01306_de71 @default.