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Parties Involved:
James Bagwell
Plaintiff
Juanita Forbes
Plaintiff
Richard Genton
Plaintiff
Guidant Corporation
Defendant
Guidant Sales Corporation
Defendant
Carol Legeros
Plaintiff
Charlene Shults
Plaintiff

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 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

FOR DISCONTINUATION OF DEADLINES

94590v4 1 CASE NO. 2:05-CV-02113-GEB-DAD

Dana N. Gwaltney, SBN 209530 

Sara J. Romano, SBN 227467

SHOOK, HARDY & BACON L.L.P. 

333 Bush Street, Suite 600 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: (415) 544-1900 

Facsimile: (415) 391-0281 

Attorneys for Defendants 

GUIDANT CORPORATION 

and GUIDANT SALES CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JUANITA FORBES, successor in interest to the 

Estate of ROBERT FORBES; JAMES 

BAGWELL; RICHARD GENTON; CAROL 

LEGEROS, successor in interest to the Estate of 

CHRIS LEGEROS; and CHARLENE 

SHULTS, 

 Plaintiffs, 

v. 

GUIDANT CORPORATION, an Indiana 

corporation; GUIDANT SALES 

CORPORATION, an Indiana sales corporation; 

and DOES 1-25, 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. 2:05-CV-02113-GEB-DAD 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER FOR DISCONTINUATION OF 

DEADLINES TO ANSWER OR 

OTHERWISE RESPOND AND TO 

PARTICIPATE IN PRETRIAL 

PROCEEDINGS 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties through their designated counsel 

that the deadlines for Defendants to answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint, and for the 

parties to participate in pretrial proceedings, will be discontinued and will be set by the MDL 

transferee district court in the District of Minnesota (“MDL Court”) that will be managing the 

recently-created multidistrict litigation entitled In Re Guidant Corp. Implantable Defibrillators 

Products Liability Litigation. 

This case is one of more than 75 cases filed against Defendants in federal courts around the 

country. On November 7, 2005, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1407, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict 

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Litigation entered a Transfer Order establishing an MDL and consolidating and transferring a 

number of cases to the MDL Court. A copy of the Transfer Order is attached as Exhibit A. This 

case has been identified as a tag-along action to be transferred to the MDL. A copy of the Notice of 

Potential Tag-Along Actions that included this case is attached as Exhibit B. Defendants expect this 

case to be transferred to the MDL Court in the near future. 

The current deadline for Defendants to answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint is 

November 14, 2005. The upcoming pretrial deadlines are as follows: December 30, 2005 – last day 

to meet and confer regarding proposed discovery plan; January 9, 2006 – last day to file and serve 

joint status report; and January 23, 2006 – pretrial scheduling conference. 

In the short intervening time between now and the transfer of this case to the MDL Court, the 

time and resources of the parties and this Court should not be expended in preparing answers or 

other responses and participating in pretrial proceedings. 

Pursuant to this stipulation, the parties agree that the current deadlines for Defendants to 

answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint and for the parties to participate in pretrial 

proceedings are discontinued and will be set by the MDL Court. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

November __, 2005 KERSHAW, CUTTER & RATINOFF, L.L.P. 

By: 

STUART C. TALLEY 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

JUANITA FORBES et al.

November __, 2005 SHOOK, HARDY & BACON L.L.P. 

By: 

DANA N. GWALTNEY 

SARA J. ROMANO 

Attorneys for Defendants 

GUIDANT CORPORATION and 

GUIDANT SALES CORPORATION 

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ORDER

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, in accordance with the agreement between the parties, that the 

current deadlines for Defendants to answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint and for the parties 

to participate in pretrial proceedings are discontinued and will be set by the MDL transferee district 

court in the District of Minnesota. 

DATED: November 15, 2005 /s/ Garland E. Burrell, Jr. 

 GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR. 

 United States District Judge 

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