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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

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JEAN BROOKER,

Plaintiff,

CASE NO.06-CV-1969-H-WMC

ORDER SCHEDULING

RESPONSE DATE TO

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO

REMAND

vs.

MERCK & COMPANY, INC. (a/k/a

MERCK & CO., INC.), et al.,

Defendant.

Defendants removed this action on September 19, 2006. (Doc. No. 1.) Plaintiff

filed a motion to remand on October 13, 2006. (Doc. No. 8.) Defendants shall respond

to Plaintiff’s motion to remand on or before November 13, 2006, and Plaintiff shall file

any reply on or before November 20, 2006. The Court will either submit the motion

on the papers pursuant to its discretion under Civil Local Rule 7.1(d)(1), transfer the

case pursuant to an order from the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, or set a

hearing date after receiving Defendants’ response. Additionally, the Court notes that

several similar cases have been transferred with pending motions from the Southern

District of California to the ongoing mulitidistrict litigation, In re Vioxx Products

Liability Litigation, currently proceeding in the Eastern District of Louisiana. 

IT IS SO ORDERED

DATED: October 20, 2006

MARILYN L. HUFF, District Judge

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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Copies to:

Robert F. Clarke

Philips & Associates

3030 North Third Street, Suite 1100

Phoenix, AZ 85012

Andrea L McDonald-Hicks 

Reed Smith 

2 Embarcadero Center, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3922 

Michael K. Brown 

Reed Smith 

355 South Grand Avenue, Suite 2900 

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Kanika D. Corley 

Morris Polich and Purdy 

1055 West Seventh Street, 24th Floor 

Los Angeles, CA 90017-2550 

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