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IN RE AVANDIA MKTG., SALES PRACTICES AND PRODUCTS

MDL No. 1871. Nos. 07-md-1871, 2:08-cv-05116, 2:08-cv-01726, 2:08-cv-01981, 2:08-cv-01733, 2:08-cv-05227, 2:08-cv-01729, 2:08-cv-01727, 2:08-cv-01732, 2:08-cv-01728, 2:08-cv-00835, 2:08-cv-02884, 2:08-cv-04981, 2:08-cv-05019, 2:08-cv-04235, 2:08-cv-01730, 2:08-cv-01731, 2:08-cv-02943.

624 F.Supp.2d 396 (2009)

In Re: AVANDIA MARKETING, SALES PRACTICES AND PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. This Document Relates to: Ayala-Castro, et al. v. GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Bone, et al. v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Boone v. GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Bowles, et al. v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Cross, et al. v. GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Fisher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Hall v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Hefner, et al. v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Jefferson v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Johnson, et al. v. GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Khanna v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Massey, et al. v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Mick v. GlaxoSmithKline PLC, et al. Mitchell, et al. v. GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Thornton v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Upshaw v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, et al. Williams, et al. v. GlaxoSmithKline, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

February 25, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowell W. Finson, Robert F. Clarke, Phillips & Associates, Phoenix, AZ, for Ayala-Castro, Johnson and Mitchell.

Alan Jay Lazarus, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, San Francisco, CA, Nina M. Gussack, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for GlaxoSmithKline.

Krista L. Cosner, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Donald F. Zimmer, Jr., King & Spalding, San Francisco, CA, for GlaxoSmithKline and SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline.

Frederick W. Rom, Womble Caryle Sandridge & Rice, Reserach Triangle Park, NC, Nina M. Gussack, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline.

Richard P. Kinnan, Walter J. Lack, Engstrom Lipscomb & Lack, Thomas V. Girardi, Girardi & Keese, Los Angeles, CA, for Boone.

Charles W. Davis, The Miller Firm, LLC, Orange, VA, for Ayala-Castro, Bone, Boone, Bowles, Cross, Fisher, Hall, Hefner, Jefferson, Khanna, Massey, Mitchell, Thornton and Upshaw.

David Christian Andersen, Michael J. Miller, The Miller Firm, LLC, Orange, VA, Michael Miller, Miller & Associates, Alexandria, VA, for Bone, Bowles, Fisher, Hall, Hefner, Thornton and Upshaw.

Brian S. Kabateck, Richard L. Kellner, Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP, Bahar Dejban, James Martin Kenna, Shawn Khorrami, Khorrami Pollard & Abir LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Cross and Williams.

Cynthia Brown, Mark E. Burton, Jr., Nancy Hersh, Hersh & Hersh, Rachel Abrams, Levin Simes Kaiser & Gornick LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Khanna.

Brandon Lee Evans, The Miller Firm LLC, Orange, VA, for Massey.

Theresa M. Walsh, Brown Chiari, LLP, Lancaster, NY, for Mick.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

RUFE, District Judge.

The seventeen above-captioned individual actions have been transferred to a multidistrict litigation ("MDL") docket established1 to consolidate, for purposes of coordinated pretrial proceedings, cases in federal court that "arise from allegations that certain diabetes drugs manufactured by [Defendant SmithKlineBeecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK")]—Avandia and/or...

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