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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO STAY 

QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN, LLP

Karin Kramer (Bar No. 87346) 

karinkramer@quinnemanuel.com 

50 California Street, 22nd Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 875-6600 

Facsimile: (415) 875-6700 

Attorneys for Defendant Pfizer Inc. 

JACKSON ALLEN & WILLIAMS, LLP 

Jennifer Williams (CA SBN 290015) 

jwilliams@jacksonallenfirm.com 

3838 Oak Lawn Ave., Suite 1100 

Dallas, TX 75219 

214.521.2300 telephone 

214.452.5637 facsimile

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP 

Emma Elizabeth Garrison 

garrison@wtotrial.com 

370 Seventeenth St., Suite 4500 

Denver, CO 80202 

Tel: (303) 244-1800 

Fax: (303) 244-1879 

Attorneys for McKesson Corp. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

LORETTA LITTLE, et al., 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

PFIZER INC., et al., 

 Defendants. 

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CASE NO.: 3:14-cv-01177-EMC 

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER TO STAY 

PROCEEDINGS PENDING 

RULING IN CENTRAL 

DISTRICT ACTIONS 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO STAY 

This case was remanded from the Lipitor MDL in the District of South 

Carolina for this Court to determine whether subject matter jurisdiction exists under 

the “mass action” provisions of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), 28 U.S.C. § 

1332(d)(11). 

More than 4,000 Plaintiffs have also been remanded from the Lipitor MDL to 

the Central District of California. Attached as Exhibit A to this Joint Stipulation 

and [Proposed] Order to Stay is the briefing schedule entered by Judge Cormac J. 

Carney of the Central District of California in similarly situated Lipitor personal 

injury claims. The issue in the cases subject to Judge Carney’s briefing schedule, 

as here, is whether there is federal subject matter jurisdiction under CAFA’s mass 

action provision. 

The parties to this action agree that, in the interest of judicial economy, a stay 

of proceedings in this Court is warranted pending a decision by Judge Carney on the 

issue of subject matter jurisdiction under CAFA. 

It is hereby STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between the parties that in 

the interest of judicial economy, this Court should stay proceedings in this action 

pending a decision by Judge Carney on the existence of subject matter jurisdiction 

under CAFA. 

Dated: March 1, 2017 

Respectfully submitted, 

QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & 

SULLIVAN, LLP 

By: /s/ Karin Kramer 

 Karin Kramer 

Attorneys for Pfizer Inc.

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO STAY 

JACKSON ALLEN & WILLIAMS, 

LLP 

By: /s/ Jennifer Williams 

 Jennifer Williams

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

WHEELER TRIGG O’DONNELL 

LLP 

By: /s/ Emma Elizabeth Garrison 

 Emma Elizabeth Garrison 

 Attorneys for McKesson Corp. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

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Hon. Edward M. Chen, U.S.D.J.

CMC reset for 6/29/17 at 9:30 a.m. An updated 

joint CMC statement shall be filed by 6/22/17. 

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

AS MODIFIED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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