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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, on behalf

of itself and all others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

 v.

ASTRA USA, INC., ASTRA ZENECA

PHARMACEUTICALS LP, EVENTS

PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., BAYER

CORPORATION, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB

COMPANY, PFIZER, INC.,

SCHERING-PLOUGH CORPORATION TAP

PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS, INC.,

ZENECCA, INC., ZLB BEHRING LLC,

SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATION,

SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATION

d/b/a GLAXO SMITHKLINE, WYETH, INC.,

WYETH PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.,

Defendants. /

No. C 05-03740 WHA

ORDER CLARIFYING THIRD

AMENDED CASE

MANAGEMENT ORDER RE

NON-PARTY SUBPOENAS

Issued on July 9, 2010, the third amended case management order (Dkt. No. 667) is the

operative scheduling order in this matter. Among other items, it stated that plaintiffs “could take

document and deposition discovery from any two non-party large entities like Kaiser said by

counsel to have likely obtained hidden concessions” (July 9 order at 2). The parties now seek

clarification whether the order intended that plaintiffs be allowed to serve this non-party

discovery on a total of two entities or on two entities per defendant. The intent and plain

language of the order is that plaintiffs be limited to two non-party subpoenas (and accompanying

document requests) in total, not two per defendant. As noted in the third amended case

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United States District Court

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management order, the document requests must be narrowly drawn to a small number of drugs

for a discrete time period and cannot be broad fishing expeditions. Please do not use this

purported issue as an excuse to ask for a deadline extension.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 3, 2010. WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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