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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN RE: ROUNDUP PRODUCTS 

LIABILITY LITIGATION

This document relates to:

ALL ACTIONS

MDL No. 2741 

Case No. 16-md-02741-VC 

PRETRIAL ORDER NO. 2

The Court has received the parties' competing scheduling proposals for the generalcausation phase of the litigation. Neither side's proposal adequately ensures that document 

productions and depositions will proceed in an orderly and systematic fashion. Therefore, in 

anticipation of today's telephonic status conference, the parties should consider the following.

Based on the material the parties have submitted thus far, there appear to be five groups 

of witnesses whose documents either must to be produced or may need to be produced for the 

general-causation phase. They are: 

- Group A: The five custodians initially selected by Monsanto.

- Group B: The seven custodians whose documents were requested by certain plaintiffs' 

counsel before consolidation, and whose documents Monsanto has agreed to produce.

- Group C: The two custodians, John Acquavella and Eric Haupfear, whose documents the 

Court ruled at the most recent case management conference must be produced.

- Group D: The seven remaining custodians discussed at the initial case management 

conference whose documents might need to be produced (excluding the two, Steven 

Levine and Manda Sansom, whose documents the Court ruled need not be produced).

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- Group E: Any remaining general-causation witnesses yet to be identified. 

The Phase One schedule must include deadlines for each group – document production 

deadlines, deadlines by which depositions must be scheduled, and deadlines by which 

depositions must be taken. The parties should be prepared to discuss those deadlines in today's 

telephonic status conference.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 22, 2016

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VINCE CHHABRIA

United States District Judge

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