The County of Genesee v. McKinsey & Company, Inc.

I. BACKGROUND

25 The New York Plaintiffs’ cases were originally filed in New York state court. 26 McKinsey then removed the cases to the Eastern District of New York, and the JPML 27 transferred the cases here. Now that the vast majority of the Political Subdivision actions have settled (as have the actions brought by most of the other plaintiff groups), the Moving Plaintiffs say that the time has come to wind up centralized proceedings, at least for their cases. In particular, they say that (1) efficiency is no longer served by centralized proceedings, given the smaller number of actions that remain, and (2) a federal court in New York is better situated to analyze the state law issues that will be at the center of their case. In their reply brief, the New York Plaintiffs raise the issue of certain jurisdictional remand motions that they filed in the transferor court prior to centralization. As discussed at the hearing, the Court agrees that these jurisdictional issues should be decided promptly. A schedule has been set for their briefing. But the merits of those motions are separate from the merits of the New York Plaintiffs’…