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Parties Involved:
Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated
Defendant
D&D Industrial Contracting, Inc.
Defendant
Krones, Inc.
Defendant
Anthony Pitts
Plaintiff

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Stipulation and [Proposed] Order to Correctly Identify Defendant “Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.” as “AnheuserBusch, Incorporated” and for Dismissal of Defendant Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Without Prejudice 

Robert D. Phillips, Jr. (SBN 82639) 

Email: rphillips@reedsmith.com 

REED SMITH LLP

Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 415.543.8700 

Facsimile: 415.391.8269 

Eugenia Chern (SBN 215092) 

Email: echern@reedsmith.com 

REED SMITH LLP

1999 Harrison Street, Suite 2400 

Oakland, CA 94612-3572 

Telephone: 510.763.2000 

Facsimile: 510.273.8832 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated erroneously sued 

as “Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.” and 

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ANTHONY PITTS, 

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES, INC., 

D&D INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTING, INC., 

KRONES, INC., and DOES 1 through 20, 

INCLUSIVE, 

 

 Defendants. 

No.: 2:07-CV-02248-LKK-JFM 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

CORRECTLY IDENTIFY DEFENDANT 

“ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES, INC.” 

AS “ANHEUSER-BUSCH, 

INCORPORATED” AND FOR DISMISSAL 

OF DEFENDANT ANHEUSER-BUSCH 

COMPANIES, INC. WITHOUT 

PREJUDICE 

Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between plaintiff Anthony Pitts and defendants 

Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated erroneously sued as “Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.”, Anheuser 

Busch Companies, Inc., D&D Industrial Contracting, Inc., and Krones, Inc. through their attorneys 

of record, as follows: 

1. Plaintiff has incorrectly named “Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.” as a defendant; 

2. The correct entity is Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated and Anheuser-Busch, 

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Stipulation and [Proposed] Order to Correctly Identify Defendant “Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.” as “AnheuserBusch, Incorporated” and for Dismissal of Defendant Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Without Prejudice 

Incorporated shall appear in the above-captioned action instead of incorrectly named entity 

“Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.”; 

3. Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. is no longer a party to the above-captioned action 

and the Court may make and enter an order dismissing defendant Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 

only without prejudice from the above-captioned action; and 

4. Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated agrees that it will not contend that Anheuser-Busch 

Companies, Inc. bears any proportionate or comparative liability for the events alleged in the 

complaint and will not assert any such liability as a defense to plaintiff’s claims. 

DATED: October 31, 2007. 

HODSON & MULLIN 

By /s/ Samuel C. Mullin III (as authorized on 

October 31, 2007) 

Samuel C. Mullin III 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

Anthony Pitts 

DATED: November 2, 2007. 

REED SMITH LLP

By /s/ Eugenia Chern 

Robert D. Phillips, Jr. 

Eugenia Chern 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated erroneously sued as 

“Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.” and AnheuserBusch Companies, Inc. 

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Stipulation and [Proposed] Order to Correctly Identify Defendant “Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.” as “AnheuserBusch, Incorporated” and for Dismissal of Defendant Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Without Prejudice 

DATED: October 31, 2007. 

LAPLANTE, SPINELLI, DONALD & NOTT, P.C. 

By /s/ Ross R. Nott (as authorized on October 31, 

2007) 

Ross R. Nott 

Attorney for Defendant 

D&D Industrial Contracting, Inc. 

DATED: November 2, 2007. 

COSTELLA AND ASSOCIATES 

By /s/ John C. Graves (as authorized on November 

2, 2007 

John C. Graves 

Joseph Costella 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Krones, Inc. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: November 8, 2007 

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