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Nature of Suit Code: 367
Nature of Suit: TORTS - Personal Injury - Health Care/Pharmaceutical Personal Injury/Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CONSOLIDATING CASES FOR PRETRIAL PURPOSES 

CASE NOS. 3:18-CV-06972-JST & 3:19-CV-00481-JST 

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Steve W. Berman (pro hac vice) 

steve@hbsslaw.com 

Anne F. Johnson (pro hac vice) 

annej@ hbsslaw.com 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

1301 Second Avenue, Suite 2000 

Seattle, WA 98101 

Telephone: (206) 623-7292 

Facsimile: (206) 623-0594 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Debra E. Pole (Bar No. 97816) 

dpole@sidley.com 

Joshua Anderson (Bar No. 211320) 

janderson@sidley.com 

Alycia A. Degen (Bar No. 211350) 

adegen@sidley.com 

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 

555 West Fifth Street, Suite 4000 

Los Angeles, CA 90013 

Telephone: (213) 896-6000 

Facsimile: (213) 896-6600 

Attorneys for Defendant Gilead Sciences, Inc. 

[Additional Counsel Listed on Signature Page] 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ADRIAN HOLLEY, et al., 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

GILEAD SCIENCES, INC., 

 Defendant. 

Case No. 3:18-cv-06972-JST 

Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER CONSOLIDATING CASES FOR 

PRETRIAL PURPOSES 

CHARANDA DOWDY, et al., 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

GILEAD SCIENCES, INC., 

 Defendant. 

Case No. 3:19-cv-00481-JST 

Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER CONSOLIDATING CASES FOR 

PRETRIAL PURPOSES 

United States District Court 

Northern District of California

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Plaintiffs in Holley, et al. v. Gilead Sciences Inc., No. 3:18-cv-06972-JST, and Dowdy, et al. 

v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., No. 3:19-cv-00481-JST and Gilead Sciences, Inc. (“Gilead),” the parties in 

the two related cases pending before this Court, hereby stipulate as follows:

WHEREAS, the Holley Plaintiffs filed their action filed in this District on November 16, 

2018, and the Dowdy Plaintiffs filed their action in this District on January 28, 2019; 

WHEREAS, on January 30, 2019, the parties submitted a Joint Stipulation in Support of 

Administrative Motion to Consider Whether Cases Should Be Related in which the parties stipulated 

and agreed that Holley and Dowdy should be related pursuant to Local Rule 3-12 in the interests of 

judicial economy and to avoid the potential for conflicting rulings; 

WHEREAS, on February 1, 2019, the Court issued an Order relating Holley and Dowdy 

pursuant to Local Rule 3-12; 

WHEREAS, on February 20, 2019, the Court ordered the parties to address in their next case 

management statement whether Holley and Dowdy should be consolidated; 

WHEREAS, in their joint case management statements, Plaintiffs informed the Court that 

Holley and Dowdy should be consolidated and Gilead informed the Court that it did not oppose the 

consolidation of Holley and Dowdy for pretrial proceedings; and

WHEREAS, counsel for the parties in the two cases have conferred and concluded that the 

Dowdy action should be consolidated with the Holley action for all pretrial purposes pursuant to 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42(a) because the cases involve at least one common question of law 

or fact arising from allegations (which Gilead denies) that Plaintiffs were injured as a result of 

ingesting one or more of Gilead’s TDF-containing drugs. 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by Plaintiffs and Gilead, that: 

1. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42(a), the above-captioned cases should 

be consolidated for all pretrial purposes into one action. 

2. The master docket and master file for the consolidated actions should be 3:18-cv06972-JST and the consolidated action shall bear the caption Holley, et al. v. Gilead Sciences Inc. 

3. This stipulation is without prejudice to or waiver of Gilead’s opposition to 

consolidated trials in any of these cases. 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: April 26, 2019 By: /s/ Steve W. Berman 

Steve W. Berman (pro hac vice) 

steve@hbsslaw.com 

Anne F. Johnson (pro hac vice) 

annej@hbsslaw.com 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

1301 Second Avenue, Suite 2000 

Seattle, WA 98101 

Telephone: (206) 623-7292 

Facsimile: (206) 623-0594 

Shana E. Scarlett (SBN 217895) 

shanas@hbsslaw.com 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

715 Hearst Avenue, Suite 202 

Berkeley, CA 94710 

Telephone: (510) 725-3000 

Facsimile: (510) 725-3001 

Robert C. Hilliard (pro hac vice) 

bobh@hmglawfirm.com 

Katrina Ashley (pro hac vice) 

kashley@hmglawfirm.com 

HILLIARD MARTINEZ GONZALES LLP 

719 S. Shoreline Blvd. 

Corpus Christi, TX 78401 

Telephone: (361) 882-1612 

Facsimile: (361) 882-3015 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Dated: April 26, 2019 By: /s/ Joshua Anderson 

Debra E. Pole (Bar No. 97816) 

dpole@sidley.com 

Joshua Anderson (Bar No. 211320) 

janderson@sidley.com 

Alycia A. Degen (Bar No. 211350) 

adegen@sidley.com 

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 

555 West Fifth Street 

Los Angeles, CA 90013 

Telephone: (213) 896-6000 

Facsimile: (213) 896-6600 

Daniel A. Spira (pro hac vice)

dspira@sidley.com 

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 

One South Dearborn 

Chicago, IL 60603 

Telephone: (312) 853-7000 

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Inn-Young Park (Bar No. 324129) 

ipark@sidley.com 

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 

555 California St., Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: (415) 772-1200 

Attorneys for Defendant Gilead Sciences, Inc. 

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Attestation Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3) 

I, Steve W. Berman, am the ECF user whose identification and password are being used to 

file the foregoing document. In compliance with Civil L.R. 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest that concurrence 

in the filing of this document has been obtained from each of the other signatories. 

Dated: April 26, 2019 /s/ Steve W. Berman 

Steve W. Berman 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

 Pursuant to the Stipulation and Proposed Order Consolidating Cases for Pretrial Purposes, 

and good cause appearing therefor, the Court hereby ORDERS that: 

1. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42(a), the above-captioned cases are

consolidated for all pretrial purposes into one action.

2. The master docket and master file for the consolidated actions shall be 3:18-cv06972-JST and the consolidated action shall bear the caption Holley, et al. v. Gilead

Sciences Inc.

3. This order is without prejudice to or waiver of Gilead’s opposition to consolidated

trials in any of these cases.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 

HONORABLE JON S. TIGAR 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

April 29, 2019

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