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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1446pl Petition for Removal - Product Liability

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CLAYEO C. ARNOLD

A Professional Corporation

Clayeo C. Arnold, SBN 65070

Clifford L. Carter, SBN 149621

Kirk J. Wolden, SBN 138902

608 University Avenue

Sacramento, CA 95825

Telephone (916) 924-3100

Fax (916) 924-1829

Rodney A. Klein, SBN 035541

Lawrence S. Paikoff, M.D., J.D., SBN 191732

2300 Bell Executive Lane

Sacramento, CA 95825

Telephone (916) 929-6000

Fax (916) 929-5137

Attorneys for Plaintiff

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DONNA GONCAR,

 Plaintiff,

vs.

MERCK & COMPANY, INC., and

MCKESSON CORPORATION and Does

1 through 100, inclusive,

 Defendants. 

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Case No: 2:06-cv-2431-MCE-KJM

STIPULATION AND ORDER STAYING

RULE 26(F) CONFERENCES AND

INITIAL SCHEDULING CONFERENCE

PENDING RESOLUTION OF LAW

AND MOTION MATTERS

Honorable Morrison C. England, Jr.

TO THE CLERK OF THE COURT OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR

THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT, THROUGH

THEIR ATTORNEYS, FILE THIS STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER.

This case, Goncar v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Case Number 2:06-cv-02431-

MCE-KJM, was filed in state court on September 6, 2006 and removed to this Court on

November 2, 2006.

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Plaintiff will not oppose the removal to Federal court, which will ultimately result

in this case to become a “tag-along” action in the Vioxx Products Liability Litigation,

MDL No. 1657, currently pending in the Eastern District of Louisiana, District Judge

Eldon Fallon presiding.

In light of the pending transfer to the MDL, the parties respectfully request that

further Joint Status Reports be postponed and that additional Discovery Conferences be

removed from the calendar until final resolution of these matters.

SO STIPULATED.

Dated: November 29, 2006 REED SMITH LLP

By: /s/ - DANA A. BLANTON 

DANA A. BLANTON

Attorney for Defendant

Merck & Company, Inc.

Dated: November 30, 2006 CLAYEO C. ARNOLD 

A Professional Law Corporation

By: /s/ - CLIFFORD L. CARTER 

CLIFFORD L. CARTER

Attorney for Plaintiff

Donna Goncar

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ORDER

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED the above terms of this Stipulation are approved by this 

Court.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that pending transfer to the Vioxx Products Liability 

Litigation, MDL No. 1657, pending in the Eastern District of Louisiana, a joint 

status report shall be filed six (6) months from the date of this order. In the event the 

matter is transferred prior to the six (6) month period referred herein, no status report 

will be required to be filed.

DATED: December 5, 2006

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MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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