Opinion
Master Docket No. 06-cv-17430-WYD-CBS (MDL Docket No. 1743).
December 14, 2009
ORDER
THIS MATTER is before the Court on the Withdrawal of Consent to Join on behalf of opt-in Plaintiff's Oscar Cota [#365] and Daniel Denne [#366].
This case is a consolidated action for unpaid overtime compensation and related penalties and damages brought pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 216(b), and various states' wage and overtime laws. The action is comprised of two consolidated cases including Rocky Baldozier, et al. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co., Case No. 04-cv-02174, initially filed in this court on October 20, 2004 (the " Baldozier case"), and a case initiated in the Northern District of Illinois styled Robert Schultz v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co., Civil Case No. 06-cv-00322 (Northern District of Illinois Civil Case No. 04-cv-05512) (the " Schultz case"). The cases were consolidated by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ("MDL") and transferred to this Court as a single case on February 13, 2006. Plaintiff Denne filed his consent to join the Baldozier case on September 9, 2005 [No. 04-cv-021 74, #93], and Plaintiff Cota filed his consent to join the Baldozier case on November 28, 2005 [No. 04-cv-02174, #131]. Both Plaintiffs now wish to withdraw their previously filed consents to join.
Upon review of the file in this matter, it is hereby
ORDERED that Plaintiff Oscar Cota's request to Withdraw his Consent to Join, filed December 3, 2009 [#365] is GRANTED. It is
FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff Daniel Denne's request to Withdraw his Consent to Join, filed December 3, 2009 [#366] is GRANTED.