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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MAINE

IN RE COMPACT DISC MINIMUM ADVERTISED PRICE ANTITRUST LITIGATION  ] ] ]  MDL DOCKET NO. 1361 (This Document Applies To All Actions Except Trowbridge, et al.  v. Sony Music Entertainment Inc., et al., Docket No. 2:01-CV-125-P-H)  
ORDER  

In light of the media reports of criticism over the actual distribution of the CDs in the cy pres portion of the settlement, see, e.g., Karin Brulliard, An Influx of Outmoded CDs, WASH. POST, Sept. 5, 2004, at C6, availa ble at 2004 WL 82781515; Rinker Buck, Libraries Hear the Sound of Schlock, HARTFORD COURANT, July 21, 2004, at A1, 2004 WL 87429856; Stephen Kiehl, Bargain-Bin CDs Settle Md. Lawsuit, BALT. SUN, Aug. 5, 2004, at 1A, available at2004 WL 88961426; Bill Purvis & Megan Twohey, Gregorian Chant CD is Loot from Music Suit, MILWAUKEEJ. SENTINEL, July 25, 2004, at 32, available at2004 WL 87328202; Emily Shartin, Guaranteed in Stock, BOSTON GLOBE, July 22, 2004, at 1, available at 2004 WL 59797749; Charity Vogel, Soft-Rock Hits Keep Coming, BUFFALO NEWS, Aug. 1, 2004, at A1, available at 2004 WL 60047114, I shall expect to see that subject and criticism addressed in the Final Report of the Claims Administrator,1 if not sooner.
SO ORDERED.
DATED THIS  22ND DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2004



/s/D. Brock Hornby
D. BROCK HORNBY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
1 A Final Report of the Claims Administrator is provide d for in the Plaintiffs

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