Opinion
04 MD 1598 (JSR), 06 Civ. 538 (JSR), 06 Civ. 539 (JSR).
February 21, 2006
ORDER
At a hearing before this Court on February 9, 2006, the Court extended through April 6, 2006 the injunctive relief requested by RSM Richter Inc., the Canadian-appointed monitor and foreign representative in the above-captioned Muscletech matters. The Court requested, however, that the monitor, with the assistance of counsel for the other parties, prepare a "plain English" version of the injunctive order, which the Court could then substitute for the somewhat convoluted order then in place. See Transcript, 2/9/06, at 16. In response, U.S. counsel for the monitor, after conferring with other affected counsel, submitted to the Court on February 15, 2006, a proposed new order of mind-numbing turgidness and prolixity, the very first sentence of which extends for nearly four pages. Counsel are apparently of the view that "plain" means "incomprehensible" and that "English" means "gobbledygook."
Would it be asking too much to ask counsel to make another attempt at a new version? Meanwhile, the existing Order of February 9, 2006 will remain in place.
SO ORDERED.