Interim Co-Lead Counsel has represented to the Court that they “conducted extensive investigations into the case in preparation for filing of the complaint.” Mot. at 17-18; see also Mot., Ex. A, Hausfeld Deck ¶ 5 (“Plaintiffs entered the negotiations with Sparboe with a significant amount of knowledge of Defendants’ antitrust conspiracy, as a result of months of investigations into the conspiracy conducted by the numerous experienced law firms representing them.”); Asher Deck ¶ 6 (recounting that the counsel’s investigations included research into the egg industry, egg trade associations, such as United Egg Producer (“UEP”), UEP’s animal welfare programs, the economics underlying the alleged conspiracy, and the legal issues relating to the conspiracy). See Prudential, 148 F.3d at 319 (<HOLDING>). Several Defendants filed motions to dismiss
recognizing informal assumptions holding that a public employee who can be discharged only for cause is entitled to at least some informal due process before he can be terminated recognizing applicability of discovery rule holding that a discovery exception to a statute of limitation applies only to the discovery of facts not discovery of the law recognizing that informal discovery methods can support adequate appreciation of the merits