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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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13415-401 STIPULATION AND ORDER REGARDING NOTICE TO PLAINTIFFS OF 

DISCOVERY OBLIGATIONS – M:05-CV-01699-CRB 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IN RE: BEXTRA AND CELEBREX 

MARKETING SALES PRACTICES AND 

PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION 

CASE NO. M:05-CV-01699-CRB 

MDL No. 1699 

This Order Relates to: 

 ALL CASES. 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

REGARDING NOTICE TO PLAINTIFFS 

OF DISCOVERY OBLIGATIONS 

1. Pursuant to Pretrial Order No. 6, paragraph 8(a), the parties have drafted an 

Initial Notice to plaintiffs’ counsel regarding these MDL proceedings and the plaintiffs’ discovery 

obligations contained in Pretrial Order No. 6. The agreed-upon Initial Notice is attached hereto as 

Exhibit A. 

2. Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel has provided the information contained in the 

Initial Notice to all plaintiffs’ counsel with cases pending in the MDL proceedings as of the date 

of this stipulation. Accordingly, the parties hereby waive (a) the requirement in Pretrial Order 

No. 6, paragraph 8(b) that Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel provide the Initial Notice to plaintiffs’ 

counsel with any case pending in the MDL proceedings as of the date of that Order, and (b) the 

requirement in Pretrial Order No. 6, paragraph 8(c) that Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel provide the 

Initial Notice to plaintiffs’ counsel with any case subsequently transferred to or filed in the MDL 

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proceedings after that Order, to the extent such case was transferred to or filed in the MDL 

proceedings between the dates of that Order and this stipulation. No plaintiff shall rely upon 

paragraph 8 of Pretrial Order No. 6 in support of any claim that he or she did not have notice of 

the discovery obligations imposed by that Order. 

3. Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel shall transmit the Initial Notice to any 

plaintiffs’ counsel who has a case transferred to or filed in the MDL proceedings after the date of 

this stipulation if such counsel does not already have at least one case pending in these 

proceedings. Where such counsel already has at least one case pending in these proceedings, 

provision of the Initial Notice is waived. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: May 11, 2006 LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN LLP 

By /s/ 

 ELIZABETH J. CABRASER 

Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel 

Dated: May 11, 2006 DLA PIPER RUDNICK GRAY CARY US LLP 

By /s/ 

 AMY W. SCHULMAN 

 Defendants’ Liaison Counsel 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: May 15, 2006 /s/ 

HONORABLE CHARLES R. BREYER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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