Coffin v. BOWATER INC.

District Court, D. Maine July 18, 2005

Coffin v. BOWATER INC., 379 F. Supp. 2d 1 (2005)

2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22148; 2005 WL 1671917

Opinion

ORDER APPROVING NOTICE TO CLASS MEMBERS

GENE CARTER, Senior District Judge.

Now before the Court is Plaintiffs’ Revised Notice to Court in Response to Class Action Order of June 21, 2005 (Docket Item No. 132). The Court has considered the proposed Notice and APPROVES the Notice subject to the following modifications:

1) At pages 1 and 10, the date for class members to ask to be excluded from participation in this lawsuit shall be August 31, 2005. 1

2) At page 11, subsection 20, the second sentence shall be modified to read as follows: “The trial will be held in the United States District Court for the District of Maine, at the United States Courthouse in either Bangor, Maine or Portland, Maine.”

Counsel shall distribute the Notice by mail pursuant to the procedure outlined in Plaintiffs’ Notice to Court in Response to Class Action Order of June 21, 2005 (Docket Item No. 130), at 1-2.

It is SO ORDERED.

. The Court assumes that the presence of brackets surrounding the August 31 date at page 1 of the proposed Notice indicates that counsel is seeking approval of this date.

Reference

Full Case Name: Artemis COFFIN, George Baker, Darrell Flanders, James Mingo, Terrence Lyon, Harold Smith, Robert Dewitt, Duane L. Hanscom, Joseph Gagliardi Jr., Trina Vaznis, Raymond MacDonald, Robert P. Healey, Barry Bryant, Lee Wheaton and Galen M. Lander, Individually and as Representatives of a Class of All Persons Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. BOWATER INCORPORATED, Group Protection for Employees of Bowater Incorporated—Great Northern Paper, Inc. Division, Bowater Incorporated Point of Service Medical Benefits Plan, Bowater Incorporated Point of Service Medical Plan, Bowater Incorporated Benefit Plan and Bowater Life Insurance Plan, Defendants
Status: Published