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Parties Involved:
Boston Scientific Corporation
Defendant
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc
Defendant
Guidant Corporation
Defendant
Guidant Sales Corporation
Defendant
John Muir Health
Defendant
Einar Nelsen
Plaintiff

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EINAR NELSEN, individually and as a

successor in interest to decedent, 

CECELIA NELSEN,

Plaintiff, No. C 06-5170 PJH

v. ORDER STAYING CASE

PENDING MDL DECISION

GUIDANT CORPORATION; GUIDANT

SALES CORPORATION; CARDIAC

PACEMAKERS, INC.; BOSTON 

SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, JOHN

MUIR HEALTH; and DOES 1 through

100, inclusive, 

Defendants.

_______________________________/

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) to MDL-1708, In re Guidant

Corp. Implantable Defibrillators Products Liability, is currently considering plaintiff’s

opposition to a conditional transfer order, transferring this case to the United States District

Court, District of Minnesota (“MDL court”), and plaintiff’s motion is due to the JPML on

October 10, 2006. The court is in receipt of defendants’ opposition to plaintiff’s pending

motion for remand before this court, in which defendants request the court stay the instant

case pending resolution of the JPML proceedings. Because proceedings before the JPML

are ongoing, and transfer of this case to the MDL court is likely, the court hereby STAYS all

further proceedings in the above case pending resolution of the JPML’s transfer decision. 

Accordingly, the court VACATES the October 18, 2006 hearing date on plaintiff’s motion to

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United States District Court

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remand to the state court and any related deadlines. The parties are ORDERED to notify

this court regarding the JPML’s transfer decision as soon as one is issued.

September 29, 2006

IT IS SO ORDERED.

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PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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