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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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D.P. MARSHALL JR. 

U.S. District Judge 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

Richard Sheppard Arnold United States Courthouse 

600 West Capitol, Room B149 

Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3325 

13 June 2019 

Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. 

N orthem District of Indiana 

318 Robert A. Grant Courthouse 

204 Sou th Main Street 

South Bend, IN 46601 

(501) 604-5410 

FAX: (50 1) 604-5417 

RE: Doyle E. Tullos v. Biomet, Inc., et al., No. 4:18-cv-926-DPM 

Johnny Lucas v. Biomet Inc., et al., No. 4:19-cv-161-DPM 

Gary Sanden, et al. v. Biomet, Inc., et al., No. 4:19-cv-162-DPM 

Dillard Sherrill, et al., v. Biomet, Inc., et al., No. 4:19-cv-163-

DPM 

Valena Honeycutt v. John Cuckler, MD, et al., No. 4:19-cv-216-

DPM 

Dear Judge Miller, 

You remanded the five listed hip-replacement cases, and one 

more which has since settled, to this Court for further pretrial 

proceedings and trial. Thank you for moving them along to this point. 

I've consolidated these cases for pretrial matters and am setting trial 

dates. The parties have notified me that four other c~ses which may be 

remanded to the Eastern District of Arkansas remain in your MDL. 

They are: 

Judy Andrews v. Biomet, Inc., et al., No. 3:18-cv-680 

Carla Hood v. Biomet, Inc., et al., No. 3:17-cv-908 

Lynsey Pharr v. Biomet, Inc., et al., No. 3:18-cv-721 

Melinda Smith v. Biomet, Inc., et al., No. 3:17-cv-9563 

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If you intend to remand any of these four other cases, I respectfully 

request that you do so soon. That step will allow me to handle all 

pretrial matters in these related cases together. Thank you again for 

your work in the MDL and for considering my request. 

Best regards. 

Very truly yours, 

DPM/slb 

cc: Clerk of Court (for filing) 

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