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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 ORDER REGARDING CERTIFICATION OF AMENDED OR 

SUPPLEMENTAL PLAINTIFF FACT SHEETS – M:05-CV-01699-CRB 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IN RE: BEXTRA AND CELEBREX 

MARKETING SALES PRACTICES AND 

PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION 

CASE NO. M:05-CV-01699-CRB 

MDL No. 1699 

This Order Relates to: 

 ALL CASES. 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

REGARDING CERTIFICATION OF 

AMENDED OR SUPPLEMENTAL 

PLAINTIFF FACT SHEETS 

1. Requirements in Pretrial Order No. 6. Pretrial Order No. 6 (“PTO 6”) 

requires all personal injury plaintiffs to provide Plaintiff Fact Sheets (“PFSs”), authorizations, and 

responsive documents (collectively, “the discovery required by PTO 6”). See PTO 6, ¶¶ 2-3. The 

PFSs are binding on the plaintiffs as if they were contained in responses to interrogatories and 

must be signed by the plaintiffs (or the appropriate plaintiff representative) under penalty of 

perjury. See id. ¶ 2(c). Where the Pfizer Defendants believe that a plaintiff’s PFS is materially 

deficient, they can notify the plaintiff with a deficiency letter. See PTO 6, ¶ 9. 

2. Responses to Deficiency Letters. In response to such deficiency letters, 

many plaintiffs have provided additional information in letters from their counsel to counsel for 

the Pfizer Defendants without providing an amended PFS or a certification for those amended 

responses, or have provided amended PFSs without an updated certification. 

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3. Plaintiffs May Provide Certifications of Amended or Supplemental 

Responses After Counsel Provides Amended or Supplemental Responses. To minimize the 

administrative burden of providing amended or supplemental PFSs on plaintiffs’ counsel, and to 

remove an impediment to the PFS collection process, the parties hereby stipulate that plaintiffs 

may provide certifications for amended or supplemental responses after plaintiffs’ counsel 

provides the amended or supplemental responses themselves, as provided herein. 

a. Language for Certifications. Where a plaintiff’s counsel sends a 

letter with amended or supplemental PFS responses or provides an amended PFS, such plaintiff 

shall provide a signed and dated certification for such responses with the following language in 

accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 4 and 5 herein: 

I declare under penalty of perjury subject to 28 U.S.C. § 1746 that 

all of the information provided in this amended or supplemental 

Plaintiff Fact Sheet and/or letter from my counsel containing 

amended or supplemental PFS responses is true, complete and 

correct to the best of my knowledge. I acknowledge that I must 

supplement my responses if I learn that they are incomplete or 

incorrect in any material respect. 

b. Certification of Responses Based on Medical Records. Where a 

plaintiff’s counsel provides amended or supplemental PFS responses that are based on that 

counsel’s review of medical records rather than the plaintiff’s personal knowledge, plaintiff’s 

counsel shall indicate in the responses that the responses are based on medical records rather than 

the plaintiff’s personal knowledge and shall specify a particular bates number for the specific 

page(s) that support the response. Where a bates number is not available, plaintiff’s counsel shall 

provide specific information identifying the applicable records, such as the provider, date of visit, 

and description of the record, and shall enclose the records themselves with the amended or 

supplemental response. 

4. Amended or Supplemental Responses Sent Before Date of Stipulation. For 

any amended or supplemental responses sent prior to the date of this stipulation, plaintiffs shall 

have thirty (30) days from the date this stipulation is signed and served by the Court via the 

Court’s Electronic Case Filing system (“ECF”) to send certifications of the amended or 

supplemental responses. Where a plaintiff is selected to be part of the discovery pool, such 

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plaintiff shall provide the certifications as soon as possible and in no event later than three days 

before the plaintiff’s deposition. 

5. Amended or Supplemental Responses Sent After Date of Stipulation. For 

any amended or supplemental responses sent after the date of this stipulation, plaintiffs shall 

endeavor to provide the certifications contemporaneously with the amended or supplemental 

responses. If providing the certifications at the same time as the amended or supplemental 

responses will delay the transmission of the PFS, plaintiffs shall have thirty (30) days from the 

date plaintiffs’ counsel transmits an amended or supplemental PFS response to send certifications 

of the amended or supplemental responses. Where a plaintiff is selected to be part of the 

discovery pool, such plaintiff shall provide the certifications as soon as possible and in no event 

later than three days before the plaintiff’s deposition. 

6. Stipulation Binding on All Plaintiffs. Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel and the 

Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee can enter into stipulations binding all plaintiffs upon the receipt of 

court approval. See Pretrial Order No. 1, ¶ 16(C)(2); Pretrial Order No. 2, ¶ 15. Plaintiffs’ 

Liaison Counsel and the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee collectively agree that this stipulation 

shall bind all plaintiffs in these proceedings, including after remand to transferor courts (if any). 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: December 18, 2006 LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN LLP 

By /s/ 

 ELIZABETH J. CABRASER 

Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel 

Dated: December 18, 2006 DLA PIPER US LLP 

By /s/ 

 AMY W. SCHULMAN 

 Defendants’ Liaison Counsel 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: Dec. 19, 2006 /s/ 

HONORABLE CHARLES R. BREYER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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