Kinney et al v. Bristol-Myers Squib Company et al

Filing 20

ORDER Rescheduling Hearing and Case Management Conference. Signed by Judge Edward M. Chen on 10/16/2012. (emcsec, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/16/2012)

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1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 8 SANDRA L. KINNEY, et al., 9 Plaintiffs, 11 For the Northern District of California United States District Court 10 v. BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY, et al., 12 13 Defendants. ___________________________________/ 14 No. C-12-4477 EMC RELATED TO No. C-12-4478 EMC No. C-12-4615 EMC No. C-12-4616 EMC No. C-12-4617 EMC No. C-12-4619 EMC No. C-12-4633 EMC No. C-12-4641 EMC No. C-12-4642 EMC No. C-12-4803 EMC AND ALL RELATED ACTIONS. 15 __________________________________/ 16 ORDER RESCHEDULING HEARING AND CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 17 18 19 20 The above cases have all been related by this Court. Currently pending in each case is a motion to remand filed by Plaintiffs and a motion to stay filed by Bristol-Myers. 21 1. Given the similarity in issues raised by the various motions, the Court deems it 22 prudent to hear all of the motions on the same date.1 Accordingly, the Court hereby vacates the 23 October 26, 2012 hearing date in Cases Nos. C-12-4477 EMC and C-12-4478 EMC. The motions to 24 remand and stay in these two cases shall be heard instead on November 30, 2012, at 1:30 p.m., i.e., 25 the date on which the motions to remand and stay shall be heard in the remaining cases identified 26 above. 27 28 1 The briefing schedules, however, shall not be changed. 1 2 3 4 5 2. The case management conference for Case Nos. C-12-4477 EMC and C-12-4478 EMC shall remain on November 30, 2012, but shall be moved back from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 3. A case management conference for the remaining cases identified above shall also be set for November 30, 2012, at 1:30 p.m. 4. For each of the cases, a joint case management conference statement shall be filed by 6 November 23, 2012. If possible, the Court would prefer one “omnibus” statement from the parties, 7 rather than having to read ten different statements for the ten different cases. In the statement(s), the 8 parties should address how the litigation should proceed in light of Bristol-Myers’s recently filed 9 motion to transfer and consolidate with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The parties should also discuss, to the best of their knowledge, the length of time it is likely to take for the 11 For the Northern District of California United States District Court 10 Judicial Panel to rule on Bristol-Myers’s motion. 12 13 IT IS SO ORDERED. 14 15 Dated: October 16, 2012 16 _________________________ EDWARD M. CHEN United States District Judge 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2

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