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Nature of Suit Code: 367
Nature of Suit: TORTS - Personal Injury - Health Care/Pharmaceutical Personal Injury/Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:2671 Federal Tort Claims Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ELIZABETH AGNES WALKER; MARIO 

JAMES GAYLES,

Plaintiffs,

v.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES; JANSSEN 

PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., a 

pharmaceutical company of Johnson & 

Johnson, a New Jersey corporation; 

CLINICA SIERRA VISTA; FRAZIER 

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH 

CENTER; SHARON POWELL, PNP-C; 

SUNDAY IRENE, M.D.; 

METROPOLITAN FAMILY MEDICAL 

CLINICS, INC; and JOE MAWAD, M.D.,

Defendants.

No. 1:15-cv-01597-DAD-JLT

ORDER REGARDING STIPULATION TO 

DISMISS JOE MAWAD, M.D. AND SAN 

MARCOS MEDICAL GROUP, INC., D/B/A 

METROPOLITAN FAMILY CLINIC

(Doc. No. 11)

On April 8, 2016, the parties filed a joint stipulation dismissing Joe Mawad, M.D., and 

San Marcos Medical Group, Inc., d/b/a Metropolitan Family Medical Clinic, with prejudice. 

(Doc. No. 11.) The parties further stipulated that:

[T]he parties remaining in the Federal action, Plaintiffs Elizabeth 

Agnes Walker and Mario James Gayles, Defendants, Janssen 

Pharmaceuticals, Clinica Sierra Vista, Frazier Mountain 

Community Health Center, Sharon Powell, FNP-C, and Sunday 

Irene, M.D., and the parties to the California State Superior Court 

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action, Plaintiffs Elizabeth Agnes Walker and Mario James Gayles, 

and Defendants, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Joe Mawad, M.D., and 

San Marcos Medical Group, Inc., dba Metropolitan Family Medical 

Clinic, agree to conduct joint discovery including depositions.

(Doc. No. 11, at 2.)

In light of the parties’ stipulation, Joe Mawad, M.D., and San Marcos Medical Group, 

Inc., d/b/a Metropolitan Family Medical Clinic have been terminated from this action, see Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(ii); Wilson v. City of San Jose, 111 F.3d 688, 692 (9th Cir. 1997), and have

been dismissed with prejudice. Joe Mawad, M.D., and San Marcos Medical Group, Inc., d/b/a 

Metropolitan Family Medical Clinic’s motion to dismiss (Doc. No. 9) is hereby moot. 

This dismissal does not affect the status of plaintiffs’ complaint against Joe Mawad, M.D., 

and San Marcos Medical Group, Inc., d/b/a Metropolitan Family Medical Clinic, in the state court 

action filed in the San Bernardino County Superior Court, Case No. CIVDS 1500655. 

Furthermore, as stipulated by the parties, the parties in this action shall conduct joint discovery 

including depositions with the parties in the state court action.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 11, 2016 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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