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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Anti-trust

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER AUTHORIZING BRIEFS IN EXCESS OF PAGE LIMITATIONS IN CONNECTION 

WITH INDIRECT PURCHASER’S MOTION TO COMPEL Case No. MDL Docket No. 1761 (JSW) (EDL) 

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Crutcher LLP 

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP 

M. SEAN ROYALL (admitted pro hac vice)

MONIQUE MICHAL DRAKE (SBN 167188) 

MICHAEL A. SITZMAN (SBN 156667) 

One Montgomery Street, Suite 3100 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 393-8200 

Facsimile: (415) 986-5309 

Email: sroyall@gibsondunn.com 

Email: mdrake@gibsondunn.com 

Email: msitzman@gibsondunn.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ALZA CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IN RE: DITROPAN XL ANTITRUST 

LITIGATION 

CASE No. MDL Docket No. 1761 (JSW) (EDL) 

THIS DOCUMENT RELATES TO: 

THE INDIRECT PURCHASER ACTION 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

AUTHORIZING BRIEFS IN EXCESS OF 

PAGE LIMITATIONS IN CONNECTION 

WITH INDIRECT PURCHASERS' 

MOTION TO COMPEL 

This stipulation is entered into by and between the Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs (“End-Payor 

Plaintiffs”) and Defendant Alza Corporation (“Alza”), through their counsel of record. 

Currently pending before the Court is the End-Payor Plaintiffs’ motion to compel the 

production of privileged documents and information from Alza. The End-Payor Plaintiffs argue that 

the crime-fraud exception vitiates Alza's privilege with its counsel in connection with 112 documents 

that Alza has withheld from production. Both parties agree that this is a significant motion that raises 

complex factual and legal issues that go to the substantive merits of the case. Recognizing that Alza 

is limited to only one brief on this motion, Plaintiffs have agreed to give Alza additional pages so that 

it may fully brief and explain this matter to the Court. Accordingly, the parties respectfully request 

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that the Court permit Alza and the End-Payor Plaintiffs to exceed the page limitations provided for in 

Civ. L.R. 7-4(b) by 10 and 5 additional pages in their opposition and reply briefs, respectively. 

WHEREFORE, based on the foregoing facts and circumstances, and pursuant to Civil L. R. 

6-2 and 7-12, and good cause appearing therefore, the parties hereby agree and stipulate that: 

a. Alza shall have 10 additional pages for its opposition brief due on October 2, 2007; 

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b. End-Payor Plaintiffs shall have 5 additional pages for its reply brief due on October 9, 

2007. 

STIPULATED AND AGREED TO BY:

Dated: September 24, 2007 By: /s/ Edward A. Wallace 

Edward A. Wallace 

WEXLER TORISEVA WALLACE LLP 

55 W. Monroe Street, ste. 3300 

Chicago, IL 60603 

Telephone: (312) 346-2222 

Facsimile: (312) 346-0022 

Mark J. Tamblyn 

WEXLER TORISEVA WALLACE LLP 

1610 Arden Way, ste. 290 

Sacramento, CA 95815 

Telephone: (916) 568-1100 

Facsimile: (916) 568-7890 

Attorneys for Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs 

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Dated: September 24, 2007 By: /s/ Michael A. Sitzman 

M. Sean Royall (admitted pro hac vice) 

Monique Michal Drake, SBN 167188 

Michael A. Sitzman, SBN 156667 

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP 

One Montgomery Street, Suite 3100 

 San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 393-8200 

Facsimile: (415) 986-5309 

Email: sroyall@gibsondunn.com

Email: mdrake@gibsondunn.com

Email: msitzman@gibsondunn.com

Attorneys for Defendants Alza Corporation 

and Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: September _____, 2007 ___________________________________

 Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte 

 United States District Court Magistrate 

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

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