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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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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

GRANTING MOT. TO STAY PENDING TRANSFER

SF01/ 922207.1 CASE NO. CV-05792-RS

MICHELLE A. CHILDERS (SBN #197064)

SALLY F. WHITE (SBN #273765) 

DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP 

50 Fremont Street, 20th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2235 

Telephone: (415) 591-7500 

Facsimile: (415) 591-7510 

T. HAROLD PINKLEY (SBN #230503) 

Butler Snow LLP 

The Pinnacle at Symphony Place 

150 – 3rd Avenue South, Suite 1600 

Nashville, TN 37201 

Telephone: (615) 651-6715 

Facsimile: (615) 651-6701 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ETHICON, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BETTY CARLING, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

AMERICAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, 

INC., C.R. BARD, INC., BOSTON 

SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, 

ETHICON, INC., COLOPLAST 

CORPORATION and DOES 1-500, 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 3:13-CV-05792-RS 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S 

STIPULATED MOTION TO STAY ALL 

PROCEEDINGS PENDING A DECISION 

TO TRANSFER TO MDL NO. 2325, IN RE 

AMERICAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., 

PELVIC REPAIR SYSTEM PRODUCTS 

LITIGATION

Date: January 30, 2014 

Time: 1:30 p.m. 

Judge: Richard Seeborg 

Dept: Courtroom 3, 17th Floor

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs originally filed this action against Defendants American Medical 

Systems, Inc. (“AMS”), C.R. Bard, Inc., Boston Scientific Corporation, Ethicon, Inc., and 

Coloplast Corporation (collectively “Defendants”) in the Superior Court of the State of 

California for the County of Alameda, Case No. RG13687551. 

WHEREAS, on December 13, 2013, with the consent of all properly joined and served 

defendants, Defendant AMS removed this case to the United States District Court for the 

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

GRANTING MOT. TO STAY PENDING TRANSFER

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Northern District of California on the basis of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332 & 1441; 

WHEREAS, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407(a), on February 7, 2012, the Judicial Panel on 

Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) issued a Transfer Order centralizing all MDL No. 2325 actions 

in the Southern District of West Virginia before the Honorable Joseph R. Goodwin, in In re 

American Medical Systems, Inc., Pelvic Repair Sys. Prods. Liab. Litig., 844 F. Supp. 2d 1359 

(J.P.M.L. 2012); 

WHEREAS, this case involves questions of fact common to those cases pending in MDL 

2325, and Defendant AMS filed a Notice of Potential Tag-Along Action with the JPML regarding 

this case, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the JPML; and 

WHEREAS, Defendant has moved this Court to stay all proceedings in this action 

pending a decision by the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on the transfer 

of this action to the Southern District of West Virginia as part of MDL No. 2325 before the 

Honorable Joseph R. Goodwin. See 28 U.S.C. § 1407; Transfer Order, MDL No. 2325, In re 

American Medical Systems, Inc., Pelvic Repair Sys. Prods. Liab. Litig., 844 F. Supp. 2d 1359 

(J.P.M.L. 2012); 

IT IS THEREFORE STIPULATED, by the parties through their respective counsel, as 

follows: 

The Stipulated Motion to Stay All Proceedings Pending Decision on Transfer to MDL No. 

2325, In re American Medical Systems, Inc., Pelvic Repair Sys. Prods. Liab. Litig., is 

GRANTED. The case is STAYED until further action by this Court or transfer by the United 

States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The parties are relieved of any pleading, 

discovery, or other obligation until further notice. The case is administratively closed pending a 

ruling on such transfer. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

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Dated: December 20, 2013 REED SMITH LLP

By: /s/ J. David Bickham 

J. David Bickham 

Lynn A. Combs 

Attorneys for Defendant 

AMERICAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. 

Dated: December 20, 2013 REED SMITH LLP

By: /s/ Eric J. Buhr 

Eric J. Buhr 

Attorneys for Defendant 

C.R. BARD, INC. 

Dated: December 20, 2013 SHOOK HARDY & BACON LLP 

By: /s/ Brian P. Ziska

Brian P. Ziska 

Attorneys for Defendant 

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 

Dated: December 20, 2013 DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP

By:/s/ Michelle A. Childers

Michelle A. Childers 

Sally F. White 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ETHICON, INC.

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

GRANTING MOT. TO STAY PENDING TRANSFER

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Dated: December 20, 2013 FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI LLP 

By: /s/ Lesley E. Swanson

Lesley E. Swanson 

Attorneys for Defendant 

COLOPLAST CORPORATION

Dated: December 20, 2013 POLLARD BAILEY

By: /s/ Dylan F. Pollard

Dylan F. Pollard 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: __1/2_______________, 2014 

JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DISTRICT COURT 

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