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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: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

(SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION) 

IN RE: VIAGRA (SILDENAFIL 

CITRATE) AND CIALIS (TADALAFIL) 

PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION 

Case No. 16-md-02691-RS 

MDL No. 2691

This Document Relates to: 

ALL ACTIONS 

[JOINT PROPOSED] PRETRIAL ORDER 

NO. 16: SERVICE OF FACT SHEETS, 

RESPONSIVE DOCUMENTS AND 

AUTHORIZATIONS 

SERVICE OF FACT SHEETS, RESPONSIVE DOCUMENTS AND AUTHORIZATIONS 

THROUGH MDL CENTRALITY 

Plaintiffs and Defendants, Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly & Co., have agreed to accept online 

submission and service of Plaintiff Fact Sheets (“PFS”) and Defendant Fact Sheets (“DFS”), 

which are collectively described herein as Fact Sheets, and related documents in actions filed in 

or transferred to MDL No. 2691 in the interest of efficiency and judicial economy, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

1. Manner of Completion and Service of Fact Sheets and Authorization Forms. Unless

it is not reasonably practical due to international data privacy laws and requirements Plaintiffs 

and Defendants shall use the online MDL Centrality System designed and provided by 

BrownGreer PLC and accessible at www.mdlcentrality.com/mdl2691 to complete and serve the 

PFS, DFS, responsive documents and authorizations discovery, as follows: 

(a) Each Plaintiff required to submit a PFS, shall, by counsel or as pro se, establish a secure 

online portal in the MDL Centrality online system and obtain authorized usernames and 

secure login passwords to permit use of MDL Centrality by such counsel or Plaintiff. 

Except as set forth herein, Counsel for a Plaintiff or each pro se Plaintiff shall be permitted 

to view, search and download on MDL Centrality only those materials submitted by that 

Plaintiff and by Defendants relating to that Plaintiff and not materials submitted by or 

relating to other Plaintiffs unless by express agreement of the parties. 

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(b) Defendant(s) shall establish a secure online portal with the MDL Centrality online system 

and obtain authorized usernames and secure login passwords to permit use of MDL 

Centrality by Defendants’ counsel. 

(c) The Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel and other designees appointed by the Plaintiffs’ Co-Lead 

Counsel shall have access to and be able to view, search and download all materials 

submitted by all Plaintiffs and by all Defendants. 

(d) Unless it is not reasonably practical due to international data privacy laws and requirements, 

in which case Defendants will produce by another medium, each Plaintiff and Defendant 

shall use the MDL Centrality System to obtain, complete, upload or produce data and serve 

the appropriate Fact Sheet online (including the upload of PDFs or other electronic images, 

photographs, videos, or any records required in the Fact Sheets and electronic copies of 

Declarations or Certifications signed in hard copy).

(e) Each Plaintiff shall use the MDL Centrality System to obtain, complete and serve online the 

Plaintiff’s Records Authorizations. Each Plaintiff shall sign each of the required Records 

Authorizations with an original signature, which will then be scanned, uploaded, and served 

through MDL Centrality. 

(f) Service of a completed PFS, Responsive Documents, Records Authorizations, and DFS shall 

be deemed to occur when the submitting party has performed each of the steps required by 

the MDL Centrality System to execute the online submission of the materials and the 

submitting party has received a dialogue box confirming that the materials have been 

successfully submitted. 

(g) If a party must amend a previously served Fact Sheet, all subsequent versions must be 

named accordingly (“First Amended Fact Sheet,” “Second Amended Fact Sheet,” etc.) and 

all iterations of a Party’s Fact Sheet must remain available and accessible to all parties to a 

case through trial, appeal (if any), or other resolution of the litigation. 

(h) The Court may establish a secure portal with the MDL Centrality online system and obtain 

an authorized username and secure login password to permit use of MDL Centrality by the 

Court.

(i) The parties may choose to use the MDL Centrality system to send notice of deficiencies in 

Fact Sheets or related documents. Deficiency notices sent via email through MDL 

Centrality shall satisfy the service requirements for deficiency notices set forth in paragraph 

6 of Pretrial Order 15.

2. Authorizations. By using MDL Centrality, each Plaintiff authorizes the disclosure of 

his or her medical records and other health information submitted as part of the PFS or DFS to 

BrownGreer PLC as the Administrator of the MDL Centrality System, the Court, Plaintiffs’ 

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Liaison Counsel, Defendants, Defendants’ counsel, and the authorized agents, representatives 

and experts of the foregoing, for purposes of this litigation. 

3. No Impact on Privileges or Work Product Protection. The use of MDL Centrality by 

any party shall not alter, waive or affect any attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine 

protection otherwise available that would otherwise apply to a document in the absence of the 

use of MDL Centrality. Any notations placed on materials, comments entered or documents 

stored, uploaded to or produced through MDL Centrality by a user shall be considered to be the 

work product of such user unless and until the material is served on or purposefully disclosed to 

the opposing party through the use of MDL Centrality or otherwise. Pursuant to Rule 502(d) of 

the Federal Rules of Evidence, this Order applies to any other federal or state proceeding with 

respect to privilege and work-product doctrine protection. 

4. No Impact on the Scope of Discovery. Nothing in the Fact Sheets, Responsive 

Documents, Records Authorizations or any use or action in MDL Centrality shall be deemed to 

limit the scope of inquiry at depositions and admissibility of evidence at trial. The scope of 

inquiry at depositions shall remain governed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the 

admissibility of information shall be governed by the Federal Rules of Evidence and other 

applicable law. No objections are waived as a result of any response in a Fact Sheet or the 

production of any documents in conjunction with a Fact Sheet. 

SO ORDERED.

Dated: ____________________________________ 

 THE HONORABLE RICHARD SEEBORG 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

12/12/18

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