Opinion
14-MD-2543 (JMF)
10-29-2021
IN RE GENERAL MOTORS LLC IGNITION SWITCH LITIGATION v. GM Motors & Shareholders, 21-CV-1006 This Document Relates To Anderson White v. GM Motor Co., 21-CV-8241
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
JESSE M. FURMAN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
On September 22, 2021, Defendant New GM filed a motion for civil contempt in Anderson v. GM Motors & Shareholders, Case No. 21-CV-1006, asking the Court to enforce the parties' revised settlement agreement. See 21-CV-1006, ECF No. 79. That settlement agreement requires Mr. Anderson, within 30 days of the agreement and before receiving his settlement payment, to provide New GM “with written documentation from a junk yard or other business entity capable of crushing the Subject Vehicle confirming that the entity has crushed the Subject Vehicle.” See 21-CV-1006, ECF No. 94-4 §§ B.1.c, B.2. In New GM's reply brief, however, New GM now says that it does not want Mr. Anderson to immediately crush the vehicle, because New GM wishes to inspect the vehicle as potential evidence in a separate case also before this Court, White v. GM Motor Co., Case No. 21-CV-8241. See ECF No. 93 at 7.
In the Court's judgment, the parties should sort out the inspection issue before a decision is rendered on New GM's motion for civil contempt. Accordingly, the parties in these cases are hereby ORDERED to promptly confer with respect to whether and when an inspection of the vehicle could take place. New GM shall report back to the Court no later than November 12, 2021. In the meantime, the Court will reserve decision on New GM's motion.
SO ORDERED.