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IN RE: Realpage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II), Case No. 3:23-md-3071 (PACER access required)
 
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has transferred a number of actions to the Middle District of Tennessee. Individual plaintiffs, who lived in certain multifamily apartment rental housing beginning in 2016, have sued RealPage, Inc., alleging antitrust violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act.  RealPage is a software company that sells revenue management software and services to multifamily housing owners and property managers.  This revenue management software recommends pricing for apartments within multifamily housing properties.  Plaintiffs allege multifamily rental housing markets throughout the United States have been tainted by an illegal, horizontal price-fixing conspiracy between RealPage and the multifamily housing property owners and managers. The conspiracy is facilitated by RealPage’s revenue management software. Plaintiffs allege that horizontal competitor properties delegate their pricing decisions to RealPage.  In turn, RealPage co-mingles these competitors’ commercially sensitive pricing and supply data and uses that data to price units within competitors’ properties.  By co-mingling their sensitive pricing and supply data within RealPage’s revenue management software, horizontal competitors conspire to fix prices in the multifamily rental housing market. 
 

MDL Lead and Liaison Counsel Contacts

Counsel Role Name/Firm
Plaintiffs' Interim Co-Lead Counsel Patrick J. Coughlin
Scott + Scott Attorneys at Law LLP
600 W. Broadway
Ste 3300
San Diego, CA 92101
619-233-4565
Email: pcoughlin@scott-scott.com
Stacey Slaughter
Robins Kaplan LLP
800 Lasalle Avenue
Suite 2800
Minneapolis, MN 55402-2015
612-349-8500
Email: sslaughter@robinskaplan.com
Swathi Bojedla
Hausfeld LLP
888 16th St.
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
202-540-7200
Email: sbojedla@hausfeld.com
Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel Tricia Herzfeld
Herzfeld, Suetholz, Gastel, Leniski & Wall, PLLC
223 Rosa L Parks Avenue
Suite 300
Nashville, TN 37203
615-800-6225
Email: tricia@hsglawgroup.com
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee Brendan P. Glackin
Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
275 Battery Street
29th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-3339
415-956-1000
Email: bglackin@lchb.com
Daniel J Walker
MIchaela Wallin 
Berger Montague PC 
2001 Pennsylvania Ave NW 
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
202-559-9740
Email: dwalker@bm.net
Email: mwallin@bm.net
Joseph Saveri
Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP
601 California St. Ste 1000
San Francisco, CA 94108
O: (415) 500-6800
C: 415-425-0856
Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com
Daniel Herrera
Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP
135 S. LaSalle, Ste. 3210
O: 312-782-4880
C: 708-275-2973
Email: dherrera@caffertyclobes.com
Christian Levis
Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.
44 S. Broadway, Ste 1100
White Plains, NY 10601
O: (914) 997-0500
C: 914-469-3162
Email: clevis@lowey.com
Walter Noss
Korein Tillery P.C.
707 Broadway, Ste. 1410
San Diego, CA 92101
O: (619) 625-5622
C: 216-224-4375
Email: wnoss@koreintillery.com
Benjamin Widlanski
Koyzak Tropin & Throckmorton LLP
2525 Ponce De Leon Blvd., 9th Floor
Miami, FL 33134
O: 305-372-1800
C: 646-256-1441
Email: bwidlanski@kttlaw.com
   
Defendants' Lead Liason Counsel Jay P Srinivasan
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP 
333 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90071-3197
213-229-7296
Email: jsrinivasan@gibsondunn.com
Defendants' Steering Committee Jay P Srinivasan
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP 
333 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90071-3197
213-229-7296
Email: jsrinivasan@gibsondunn.com
Britt Marie Miller
Mayer Brown LLP 
71 S Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
312-782-0600
Email: bmiller@mayerbrown.com
David D. Cross
Morrison & Foerster LLP
2100 L Street NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20037
202-887-1500
Email: dcross@mofo.com
Gregory J. Casas
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
300 West 6th Street
Suite 2050
Austin, TX 78701
512-320-7238
Email: casasg@gtlaw.com
Carl W Hittinger
Baker & Hostetler LLP 
1735 Market St. 
STE 3300
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103
215-564-2898
Email: chittinger@bakerlaw.com
Karen Hoffman Lent
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flow LLP
One Manhattan West
New York, NY 10001
212-735-3000
Email: karen.lent@skadden.com
 
Upcoming Proceedings
Date Time (CST) Location Description
February 16, 2024 1:00 p.m. Courtroom 6B Hearing on Joint Proposed Rule 26(f) Report and Case Management Order (See Doc. No. 693)

 

 
Select Orders (Free public access)
  • Doc. No. 693 - Order setting deadlines/hearing following telephonic status conference (Jan. 5, 2024)
  • Doc. No. 691 - Omnibus Order resolving several motions to dismiss (Dec. 28, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 690 - Memorandum Opinion regarding Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Student Plaintiffs' First Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint (Doc. No. 587) and Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Multifamily Plaintiffs' Second Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint (Doc. No. 592) (Dec. 28, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 689 - Memorandum Opinion regarding Defendants' Motion to Enforce Class Action Waivers (Doc. No. 590) (Dec. 28, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 688 - Memorandum Opinion regarding Certain Defendants' Motion to Dismiss for Failure to Plead Agency Liability (Doc. No. 581) (Dec. 28, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 687 - Memorandum Opinion regarding the Motion to Dismiss LRO Claims for Failure to State a Claim (Doc. No. 580) (Dec. 28, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 686 - Memorandum Opinion regarding TREV Management II LLC's Motion to Dismiss Student-Housing Plaintiffs' First Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint (Dec. 28, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 685 - Memorandum Opinion regarding Thoma Bravo Defendants' Motions to Dismiss Multifamily Plaintiffs' Second Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint (Doc. No. 570) and the Student Plaintiffs' First Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint (Doc. No. 572) (Dec. 28, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 278 - Order Appointing Counsel (June 13, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 243 - Order following Initial Status Conference (June 1, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 3 - Order - Setting Initial Status Conference (April 19, 2023)
Select Entries (Free public access)
  • Doc. No. 2 - Practice and Procedures Notice (April 19, 2023)
JPML Transfer Orders
  • Doc. No. 540  - Certified CTO-5 & Scehdule of Transferred Cases (Sept. 11, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 457 - Certified CTO-4 & Schedule of Transferred Cases (Aug. 2, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 407 - Certified CTO-3 & Schedule of Transferred Cases (July 26, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 7 - Certified CTO-2 & Schedule of Transferred Cases (April 26, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 4 - Certified CTO-1 & Schedule of Transferred Cases (April 20, 2023)
  • Doc. No. 1 - JMPL Initial Transfer Order & Schedule of Transferred Cases (April 12, 2023)
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Court Contacts for MDL 3071: 

  • For CM/ECF registration or filing assistance contact the CM/ECF Help Desk at 615-695-2888.
  • For questions, contact the Clerk's Office at MDL3071@tnmd.uscourts.gov.
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