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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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GRAY CARY US LLP 

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STIP. & ORDER RE: PAGE LIMITS FOR BRIEFS ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS 

PURCHASE CLAIMS MASTER COMPLAINTS – 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: 

 PURCHASE CLAIMS. 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

REGARDING PAGE LIMITS FOR BRIEFS 

ON PFIZER ENTITIES’ MOTIONS TO 

DISMISS PURCHASE CLAIMS MASTER 

COMPLAINTS 

1. Pursuant to Pretrial Order No. 7, certain plaintiffs have filed the “Purchase 

Claims Master Celebrex Complaint” and the “Purchase Claims Master Bextra Complaint” 

(collectively, “Master Complaints”). The Master Complaints aggregate 146 pages and assert 

numerous claims under the laws of several different states, as well as federal law. Defendants 

named in those Master Complaints intend to file separate motions to dismiss each of the Master 

Complaints. At the Case Management Conference on March 16, 2006, the Court discussed with 

Liaison Counsel for Plaintiffs and for Defendants the request for briefing on the motions to 

dismiss in excess of the limits set forth in Local Rules 7.2(b) and 7.4(b). 

2. The parties hereby stipulate that relief from the limits stated in the Local 

Rules is warranted in this proceeding. Memoranda in support of the motions to dismiss shall not 

exceed eighty (80) pages in the aggregate; the same limitation applies to memoranda in 

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STIP. & ORDER RE: PAGE LIMITS FOR BRIEFS ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS 

PURCHASE CLAIMS MASTER COMPLAINTS – M:05-CV-01699-CRB 

opposition to the motions to dismiss. This page limitation may be allocated between the motion 

directed to the Purchase Claims Master Celebrex Complaint and that directed to the Purchase 

Claims Master Bextra Complaint as the parties deem necessary to state their positions without 

needless duplication. To the extent arguments apply to both Master Complaints, those arguments 

need not be repeated in each moving or opposing memorandum but may be incorporated by 

reference. 

3. The parties and the Court will consider the appropriate length of reply 

memoranda after opposition memoranda have been filed. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: March 29, 2006 LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN LLP 

By /s/ 

 ELIZABETH J. CABRASER 

Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel 

Dated: March 29, 2006 DLA PIPER RUDNICK GRAY CARY US LLP 

By /s/ 

 AMY W. SCHULMAN 

 Defendants’ Liaison Counsel 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: March 30, 2006 /s/ 

HONORABLE CHARLES R. BREYER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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