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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

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

RICHARD SHEPPARD ARNOLD UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE

500 W. CAPITOL, ROOM D444

LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201-3325

(501) 604-5140

Facsimile (501) 604-5149

May 19, 2010

Mr. Robert Allen Schwartz 

Bailey & Galyen 

18333 Egret Bay Boulevard 

Suite 120 

Houston, TX 77058 

Mr. W. Stuart Calwell 

The Calwell Practice, PLLC 

Post Office Box 113 

Charleston, WV 25302 

Mr. F. Lane Heard , III 

Williams & Connolly 

725 Twelfth Street, N.W. 

Washington, DC 20005-5901 

Re: May 19, 2010, Telephone Conference re: E-only Schedule

Dear Counsel:

Thank you for your time this morning. 

If Judge Montgomery thinks an August joint hearing is feasible it is likely that we will have it in

August while I am in Minnesota for the Eighth Circuit conference.

Accordingly, the order I entered earlier1

 will be modified to extend the deadline for Plaintiffs to file

motion, designate experts, and disclose expert reports until June 9, 2010, vice June 2, 2010.

The order also will provide that only Wyeth will be involved in the consideration at this point. 

I remind you that this question was identified as a Daubert issue in several orders dated August 22,

2008 -- see, e.g., Smith v. Wyeth, et al., 4:05-CV-01748-WRW.

Wyeth, of course, will be required to produce affidavits in response to the position of Plaintiffs’

expert or experts by July 15, 2010. If Plaintiffs’ counsel believe that depositions of those experts

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May 13, 2010 Order (Doc. No. 2270)

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producing defense affidavits are necessary, I will probably help schedule them on an expedited basis.

If the August hearing is not deemed feasible by Judge Montgomery, I will probably loosen the

deadlines a little, but not a lot. Each party should assume, from this moment forward that we will

have the hearing in August.

Again, thank you for your time.

Cordially,

/s/ Wm. R. Wilson, Jr.

P.S. It appears to me that it would be a good thing if Plaintiffs’ counsel coordinate their efforts

forthwith.

Original to the Clerk of the Court

cc: The Honorable Ann D. Montgomery

The Honorable Joe Volpe

Other Counsel of Record

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