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Nature of Suit Code: 367
Nature of Suit: TORTS - Personal Injury - Health Care/Pharmaceutical Personal Injury/Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WINDY GARLAND,

Plaintiff,

v.

JOHNSON & JOHNSON, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-05440-VC 

ORDER RE MOTION TO WITHDRAW 

AND STIPULATION TO DISMISS

In this and two other related cases, counsel for the plaintiff have filed a motion to 

withdraw. In each motion, counsel assert that they have lost contact with the plaintiff. 

Subsequently, in each of these three cases, counsel for the plaintiff filed a stipulated request to 

dismiss the case without prejudice. Each stipulated request repeats that counsel for the plaintiff 

have lost touch with their client. And each stipulated request is worded identically. These filings 

give rise to a number of questions that prevent this Court from approving the stipulated request for 

dismissal in this case (or the stipulated request for dismissal in the two related cases). 

Accordingly, the stipulated request is denied, and counsel for both sides should be prepared to 

explain, at the hearing on the motion to withdraw, what is going on here.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 28, 2015

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 VINCE CHHABRIA

 United States District Judge

Case 3:14-cv-05440-VC Document 34 Filed 05/28/15 Page 1 of 1