FILED
Oct 18 2010
United States District Court
Northern District of Ohio
General Order
GENERAL ORDER NO. 2010-39
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
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ASSIGNMENT OF MAGISTRATE ) ORDER NO. 2010-39
JUDGES TO MDL MATTERS )
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Pursuant to Administrative Order 2010-24, the Clerk’s Office is hereby ordered to
assign a magistrate judge to all pending MDL actions, as well as to any future MDL
designations this district may receive, using the following protocol.
For each new MDL assigned to this district, a magistrate judge shall be randomly
assigned from the same location as the district judge assigned to the MDL, with the
exception that cases assigned to district judges in Akron and Youngstown, be randomly
assigned to either the Akron or Youngstown Magistrate Judge.
District Judge Randomly Assign to a
Location Magistrate Judge from
Cleveland Cleveland
Akron/Youngstown Akron/Youngstown
Toledo Toledo
A magistrate judge shall also be assigned to each of the 11 currently pending
MDL actions in a similar manner, unless a referral has already been made, in which
case those referrals will remain unchanged. Any magistrate judge assignments that
have been made at the time of filing on individual cases prior to those cases being
added to the MDL, will no longer be in effect.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
FOR THE COURT
Solomon Oliver, Jr.
Chief Judge
United States District Court
