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EX PARTE NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORP.

No. 1060224.

975 So.2d 297 (2007)

Ex parte NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION. In re State of Alabama v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., et al.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 1, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Coleman and James N. Walter, Jr., of Capell & Howard, P.C., Montgomery; and Jane W. Parver, Saul P. Morgenstern, Mark Godler, and Samuel Lonergan of Kaye Scholer, LLP, New York, New York, for petitioner.

Troy King, atty. gen.; Roger L. Bates of Hand Arendall, L.L.C., Birmingham; Caine O'Rear III and Windy C. Bitzer of Hand Arendall, L.L.C., Mobile; and W. Daniel Miles III and Clinton C. Carter of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Montgomery, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, one of the defendants in an action filed by the State of Alabama against 73 pharmaceutical companies, has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus requesting that this Court direct the trial court to vacate its order denying Novartis's motion to sever the claims against it from the claims asserted against other companies and to enter an order severing those claims. We grant the petition and issue the writ.

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