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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 TO EXTEND TIME TO PROVIDE DEFENDANT'S PRIVILEGE LOG 

 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 Defendants 

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 

TO EXTEND TIME TO PROVIDE 

DEFENDANT'S PRIVILEGE LOG 

This Stipulation is entered into by and between the Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs (“Plaintiffs”) 

and Defendant Alza Corporation (“Defendant”), through their counsel of record, concerning an 

extension of time for Defendant to provide a privilege log. 

On January 26, 2007, Defendant served its Objections and Responses to Indirect Purchaser 

Plaintiffs' First Set of Requests for Production of Documents and Things. Pursuant to an agreement 

of the parties, Defendant intends to make a rolling production of its paper documents beginning on or 

before February 12, 2007. Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of this Court’s Standing Order Re: Discovery 

Procedures, Defendant's privilege log would ordinarily be due on February 9, 2007. The parties 

have agreed to extend this deadline for Defendant's production of a privilege log, for the reasons set 

forth below. 

It is Defendant's position that the volume of privileged materials in this case is likely to be 

significant, as Plaintiffs' claims include assertions of sham litigation of an underlying patent 

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infringement suit. Further, Plaintiffs intend to move to pierce the attorney-client privilege and the 

attorney work-product doctrine otherwise applicable under what they assert is a crime-fraud 

exception (the "Motion"). According to Plaintiffs, if they are successful in the Motion, the volume of 

materials to be logged will be significantly reduced. Defendant disputes Plaintiffs' assertion that any 

crime-fraud exception applies or that any attorney-client privilege or work product protection in this 

matter can be pierced. Nonetheless, in order to resolve the current privilege issues in the most 

efficient manner, the parties have agreed to postpone the preparation and service of a privilege log 

until after the Court has been presented with and has ruled upon Plaintiffs' Motion. 

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Accordingly, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 37 and Civil L.R. 37-1(a), the parties hereto agree 

and stipulate to the following and request the Court’s approval thereof: 

Defendant shall be temporarily relieved of any duty to provide Plaintiffs with a privilege log 

otherwise required under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(5) and this Court’s Standing Order Re: Discovery 

Procedures, ¶ 5, until such time as Plaintiffs’ Motion is heard and decided by the Court. 

STIPULATED AND AGREED TO BY: 

Dated: February 8, 2007 

ZIMMERMAN REED, P.L.L.P. 

By: ______________/s/______________________

Timothy J. Becker 

Attorneys for Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs 

Dated: February 8, 2007 GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP 

By: ______________/s/_______________________

Michael A. Sitzman 

Attorneys for Defendant ALZA CORPORATION 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: February ____, 2007 __________________________________________ 

Magistrate 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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