Dr. Reutter

The moving defendants sought a temporary stay of the plaintiff's certification motion pending the determination of a certification motion in a related price-fixing class action involving different electronic components.

The defendants argued that a stay would promote efficiency as the expert evidence and methodology were substantially similar in both actions.

The court dismissed the motion, finding that the actions involved different products, time periods, and parties, and that an indefinite delay would be unfair to the plaintiff class and contrary to the goals of judicial economy and access to justice.

The defendants in a proposed price-fixing class action brought a motion for directions to pause the proceeding pending the release of a Supreme Court of Canada decision in a related case.

The plaintiffs opposed the delay.

The court found that it made sense to await the Supreme Court's decision for efficiency, but declined to vacate the scheduled motion dates immediately.

The court directed that most cross-examinations proceed, but deferred the cross-examination of the plaintiffs' expert economist until after the Supreme Court hearing.

The defendants in a proposed price-fixing class action brought a motion to strike the affidavits of the plaintiffs' economics expert, arguing the proposed methodologies for calculating aggregate damages and pass-through rates were invalid and unreliable.

The court applied the test for admissibility of expert evidence and found that the expert's proposed regression models and economic analyses met the threshold for reliability and were highly probative to the certification motion.

The motion to strike was dismissed, with the issue of the legal relevance of umbrella purchaser claims deferred to the certification hearing.