Bowens v. Atlantic Maintenance Corp.

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• holding that consent forms should be sent to the Clerk of Court to avoid discouraging class members from obtaining outside counsel
• holding that defendant’s general and conclusory objections to the magistrate’s report and recommendations were not specific enough to preserve claims for review and thus the purported objections were waived
• observing that courts “have held that a sixty (60)-day period is sufficient for the return of Consent Forms”
• requiring defendant to submit any offer of judgment to plaintiffs' counsel and not to plaintiffs
• declining to certify facts to the district court where movant failed to establish a prima facie case of contempt
• involving a defendant that, among other things, apparently had “chang[ed] the minds” of two members of the collective who withdrew from the case

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