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NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION CASE NO.: 3:08-CV-05746-SI

RAOUL D. KENNEDY (STATE BAR NO. 40892)

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP

Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 3800

San Francisco, California 94111

Telephone: (415) 984-6400

Facsimile: (415) 984-2698

Email: Raoul.Kennedy@skadden.com

JAMES R. CARROLL (PRO HAC VICE)

DAVID S. CLANCY (PRO HAC VICE)

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP

One Beacon Street, 31st Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02108

Telephone: (617) 573-4800

Facsimile: (617) 573-4822

Email: James.Carroll@skadden.com

Email: David.Clancy@skadden.com

Attorneys for Defendant

Conseco Life Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

CEDRIC BRADY, DR. CHARLES

HOVDEN, MARION HOVDEN, DR.

EUGENE KREPS, DR. JOHN McNAMARA,

DR. HISAJI SAKAI, and JEAN SAKAI,

Individually and On Behalf Of All Others

Similarly Situated,

Plaintiffs,

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CONSECO, INC. and CONSECO LIFE

INSURANCE COMPANY,

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CASE NO.: 3:08-CV-05746-SI

NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF

CONSECO LIFE'S MOTION TO

TEMPORARILY STAY ALL

PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION

CONCERNING SCHEDULING

CONFERENCE

Date: February 12, 2010

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Place: Courtroom 10

Judge: The Honorable Susan Illston

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The case management conference shall be heard on

Frdiay, March 12, 2010, at 3:00 p.m.

A joint case management conference statement shall be

filed one week prior to the conference.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Susan Illston

M-10-2124

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NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION CASE NO.: 3:08-CV-05746-SI

I. NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION TO STAY

Defendant Conseco Life Insurance Company ("Conseco Life") respectfully

withdraws its Motion To Temporarily Stay All Proceedings Pending Determination Of The Judicial

Panel On Multidistrict Litigation ("Motion to Stay") (Docket No. 94). This withdrawal is based on

the recent order of the MDL Panel consolidating this action ("Brady") with the other two pending

federal court actions, and this Court's establishment of an MDL docket ("MDL Docket").1 (See

Brady Docket No. 107; see also In re Conseco Life Ins. Co., Case M:10-cv-02124-SI (N.D. Cal.),

and Docket No. 1 thereto.)

II. SUBMISSION CONCERNING SCHEDULING CONFERENCE

In light of the order from the MDL Panel and the establishment of the MDL Docket,

Conseco Life respectfully submits that a scheduling conference to coordinate or consolidate

discovery and other pretrial proceedings may be appropriate. Should the Court be inclined to

schedule a conference, one potential date is March 5, 2010. That date is currently set aside for a

hearing on the Brady plaintiffs' motion for class certification, but Conseco Life submits that it

would be premature to hear argument on that motion at that time: the McFarland action is also a

putative class action, but -- unlike Brady -- the case has been stayed and plaintiff's motion for class

certification has not yet been fully briefed. Given these competing and, to some degree,

overlapping class certification motions, Conseco Life respectfully submits that piecemeal argument

1 The other two actions are McFarland v. Conseco Life Ins. Co., No. 3:09-cv-598-TJC-MCR

(M.D. Fla. filed July 2, 2009) (putative nationwide class action) ("McFarland") and Muldrow v.

Conseco Life Ins. Co., No. 4:08-cv-552-RH-WCS (N.D. Fla. filed Dec. 12, 2008) (individual suit

on behalf of two plaintiffs) ("Muldrow").

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and adjudication on this important issue would be inefficient, not only for the parties but

particularly for the Court.2

Plaintiff's counsel in McFarland agrees to a conference on March 5, 2010; plaintiffs'

counsel in Brady similarly agrees to a conference but does not agree to defer the hearing on their

motion for class certification.

Dated: February 10, 2010 Respectfully submitted,

/s/ David S. Clancy

RAOUL D. KENNEDY (State Bar No. 40892)

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 3800

San Francisco, California 94111

Telephone: (415) 984-6400

Facsimile: (415) 984-2698

Email: Raoul.Kennedy@skadden.com

JAMES R. CARROLL (Pro Hac Vice)

DAVID S. CLANCY (Pro Hac Vice)

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

One Beacon Street, 31st Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02108

Telephone: (617) 573-4800

Facsimile: (617) 573-4822

Email: James.Carroll@skadden.com

Email: David.Clancy@skadden.com

Attorneys for Defendant

Conseco Life Insurance Company

2 Similarly, Conseco Life believes that deposition discovery prior to coordination between, or

consolidation of, the MDL cases would be inefficient, duplicative and wasteful, and Conseco Life

is prepared to file motions for protective orders if necessary.

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