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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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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER STAYING PROCEEDINGS; No.: 1:05-CV-01038-REC-SMS 

Albert B. Norris (SBN 34756) 

Stephen G. Blitch (SBN 70193) 

REED SMITH LLP

1999 Harrison Street, Suite 2400 

Oakland, CA 94612-3572 

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 2084 

Oakland, CA 94604-2084 

Telephone: 510.763.2000 

Facsimile: 510.273.8832 

Attorneys for The BOC Group; Hobart Brothers 

Company; Illinois Tool Works; The Lincoln 

Electric Company; Viacom, Inc., successor by 

merger to CBS Corporation, f/k/a Westinghouse 

Electric Corporation; The ESAB Group 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JAMES BRADBERRY, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

THE BOC GROUP, INC., as successor to Airco, 

Inc.; HOBART BROTHERS COMPANY; 

ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC., as successor to 

Hobart Brothers Company; THE LINCOLN 

ELECTRIC COMPANY; VIACOM, INC. as 

successor to CBS Corporation, successor to 

Westinghouse Electric Corporation; THE ESAB 

GROUP, INC.; and DOES 1 through 100, 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

No.: 1:05-CV-01038-REC-SMS 

STIPULATION AND ORDER STAYING 

PROCEEDINGS 

The Honorable Robert E. Coyle 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER STAYING PROCEEDINGS; No.: 1:05-CV-01038-REC-SMS 

TO THE CLERK OF THE ABOVE-ENTITLED COURT: 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties hereto through their respective 

attorneys of record that all proceedings in this matter be stayed pending a transfer of this action to In 

re Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1535 (N.D. Ohio). 

The parties agree this stipulation will stay the Defendants’ obligation to respond to the 

complaint, and the parties’ right to propound discovery in this venue, unless and until the case is 

transferred to, and remanded from, the MDL proceeding. The parties respectfully request that this 

Court refrain from issuing any scheduling orders in this matter, including but not limited to case 

management orders and orders pertaining to Alternative Dispute Resolution, unless and until the 

case is transferred to, and remanded from, the MDL proceeding. 

SO STIPULATED AND AGREED 

DATED: August 18, 2005. 

REED SMITH LLP

By /s/ Thomas M. Freeman for 

Albert B. Norris 

Stephen G. Blitch 

Attorneys for The BOC Group; Hobart Brothers 

Company; Illinois Tool Works; The Lincoln 

Electric Company; Viacom, Inc., successor by 

merger to CBS Corporation, f/k/a Westinghouse 

Electric Corporation; The ESAB Group 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER STAYING PROCEEDINGS; No.: 1:05-CV-01038-REC-SMS 

DATED: August 18, 2005. LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN LLP

By /s/ Eric B. Fastiff 

Richard M. Heimann 

Robert J. Nelson 

Eric B. Fastiff 

Attorneys for Plaintiff James Bradberry 

IT IS SO ORDERED 

DATED: ___August _22, 2005 

 /s/ ROBERT E. COYLE 

The Honorable Robert E. Coyle 

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