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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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SF1\362904\2 STIPULATION OF DISMISSAL CASE NO. 3:01-CV-4180 (VRW) 

DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP

50 Fremont Street, 20th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

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CHARLES F. PREUSS (State Bar No. 45783) 

STEVEN M. SELNA (State Bar No. 133409) 

MICHELLE A. CHILDERS (State Bar No. 197064) 

OWEN J. RESCHER (State Bar No. 214678) 

DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP

50 Fremont Street, 20th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94105-2235 

Telephone: (415) 591-7500 

Facsimile: (415) 591-7510 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATION D/B/A 

GLAXOSMITHKLINE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MARVA RIDGE et al.,

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

GLAXO SMITHKLINE, etc., et al.,

 Defendants. 

Case No. 3:01-cv-4180 (VRW) 

STIPULATION OF DISMISSAL; 

ATTESTATION IN SUPPORT OF 

SIGNATURE

WHEREAS, plaintiffs MARVA RIDGE (“Ridge”) and WILLIE McDOLE 

(“McDole”) filed a Complaint against SmithKline Beecham Corporation d/b/a 

GlaxoSmithKline (“GlaxoSmithKline”) in the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California in November 2001, entitled Marva Ridge; Willie McDole 

v. Glaxo SmithKline, plc; SmithKline Beecham Corporation; Glaxo Wellcome, Inc.; and 

Does 1 to 10, N.D. Cal. Docket No. 3:01-cv-4180 (“multi-plaintiff action”); 

WHEREAS, the multi-plaintiff action was transferred to the Multidistrict 

Litigation proceeding, In re Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) Products Liability Litigation,

MDL Docket No. 1407 (“MDL 1407”), where it was assigned MDL 1407 Docket No. 

2:02-cv-00530-BJR; 

WHEREAS, Ridge and McDole subsequently filed separate, amended Complaints 

pursuant to MDL 1407’s Case Management Orders (“CMOs”) Nos. 15 and 15A 

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Judge Vaughn R Walker

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regarding cases that could not meet the threshold requirement for permissive joinder 

under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20(a) (Ridge’s new, individual action was 

assigned MDL 1407 Docket No. 2:03-cv-01392-BJR and McDole’s was assigned MDL 

1407 Docket No. 2:03-cv-1393-BJR); 

WHEREAS, Ridge and McDole’s original, multi-plaintiff Complaint was 

subsequently dismissed with prejudice pursuant to MDL 1407’s CMOs Nos. 15 and 15A; 

WHEREAS, Ridge’s new, individual action was included on a Conditional 

Remand Order (“CRO”) filed with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation 

(“JPML”) on April 12, 2005, and then transmitted to the Northern District of California, 

where it was received on May 31, 2005; 

WHEREAS, McDole’s new, individual action was included on a CRO filed with 

the JPML on May 13, 2005, and then transmitted to the Northern District of California, 

where it was received on July 6, 2005; 

WHEREAS, both Ridge and McDole have now settled all their PPA-related 

claims against GlaxoSmithKline; 

WHEREAS, Ridge’s and McDole’s new, individual actions have never been 

dismissed; and 

WHEREAS, the parties, having settled this action, enter this stipulation to clarify 

that the parties agree to the dismissal with prejudice all of Ridge’s and McDole’s PPArelated claims against GlaxoSmithKline, both individual and multi-plaintiff; therefore 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between plaintiffs Ridge and McDole and 

defendant GlaxoSmithKline, through their designated counsel, that the new, individual

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actions and any remaining PPA-related claims and/or actions by Ridge and/or McDole 

against GlaxoSmithKline be and hereby are dismissed with prejudice pursuant to Federal 

Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a) with each party to bear its own costs. 

Dated: September 8, 2005 CORY WATSON CROWDER & DEGARIS

/S/ LEILA H. WATSON 

LEILA H. WATSON 

Attorneys for

MARVA RIDGE and WILLIE McDOLE 

Dated: September 8, 2005 DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP

/S/ MICHELLE A. CHILDERS 

MICHELLE A. CHILDERS 

Attorneys for 

SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATION 

d/b/a GLAXOSMITHKLINE 

ATTESTATION IN SUPPORT OF SIGNATURE

I attest that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from the 

other signatory. 

Dated: September 8, 2005 /S/ MICHELLE A. CHILDERS 

MICHELLE A. CHILDERS 

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