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Brawl lawsuit updated

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Chris

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Date Posted: 01/15/05 8:21pm

Brawl lawsuits won't be combined

Web-posted Jan 13, 2005

By STEPHEN FRYE
Of The Daily Oakland Press

Lawyers for two men suing the Indiana Pacers basketball organization in the aftermath of the brawl at The Palace of Auburn Hills withdrew their request Wednesday to combine the two cases.
The motion to consolidate the cases of William Paulson and John Ackerman Jr., had been made by lawyers from Geoffrey Fieger's Southfield-based firm.

Last week, Palace Sports Entertainment, which is among the defendants in the Ackerman case only, filed a response that objected to the proposed consolidation. Lawyers for the Auburn Hills company said it was too soon to combine the cases because the other defendants have yet to file responses to the suits.

Both Paulson and Ackerman named the Pacers organization as well as individual players Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson, and Jermaine O'Neal as defendants. Ackerman also sued Pacer David Harrison.

Currently, the Paulson case is assigned to Oakland County Circuit Judge Colleen O'Brien, and Ackerman's is on Judge Denise Langford Morris' docket.

On Wednesday, the motion was to be before Langford Morris and was a request for her to take both cases.

Palace Sports also objected to consolidation because the chief judge must first reassign any case. Besides that, lawyers said in their motion that the Pacers team and the individual players may seek to move the Paulson case to federal court.

No further court dates have been set in either suit.

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Subject	Author	Date
update on this case	Chris	10/13/06 6:53pm