Safeway Inc. et al v. Abbott Laboratories

Filing 382

ORDER (378 in 4:07-cv-05470-CW), (357 in 4:07-cv-06120-CW), (482 in 4:07-cv-05985-CW) Stipulation Regarding Assignments of Claims. Signed by Judge Claudia Wilken on 3/1/2011. (ndr, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/1/2011)

Safeway Inc. et al v. Abbott Laboratories

Doc. 382

1 LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064) 2 Brendan P. Glackin (State Bar No. 199643) Sarah R. London (State Bar No. 267083) 3 275 Battery Street, 29th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111-3339 4 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] 5 Counsel for the Direct Purchaser Class 6 HANGLEY ARONCHICK SEGAL & PUDLIN 7 Steve D. Shadowen, Pro Hac Vice Monica L. Rebuck, Pro Hac Vice 8 30 North Third Street, Suite 700 Harrisburg, PA 17101-1701 9 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] 10 Counsel for Rite Aid Corp., et al. 11 12 13 14 15 16 SAFEWAY INC., et al., 17 18 v. Plaintiff, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. C07-5470 (CW) Related per November 19, 2007 Order to Case No. C04-1511 (CW) STIPULATION REGARDING ASSIGNMENTS OF CLAIMS UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA OAKLAND DIVISION

19 ABBOTT LABORATORIES, 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (Caption continued on next page) Defendant.

Date: Time: Courtroom: Judge:

N/A N/A N/A Hon. Claudia Wilken

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1 2 MEIJER, INC. & MEIJER DISTRIBUTION, INC., et al., 3 Plaintiff, 4 v. 5 ABBOTT LABORATORIES, 6 Defendant. 7 8 9 10 RITE AID CORPORATION, et al., 11 12 v. Plaintiff, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. C07-5985 (CW) (Consolidated Cases) Related per November 30, 2007 Order to Case No. C04-1511 (CW) STIPULATION REGARDING ASSIGNMENTS OF CLAIMS Date: Time: Courtroom: Judge: N/A N/A N/A Hon. Claudia Wilken

Case No. C07-6120 (CW) Related per December 5, 2007 Order to Case No. C04-1511 (CW) STIPULATION REGARDING ASSIGNMENTS OF CLAIMS

13 ABBOTT LABORATORIES, 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Defendant.

Date: Time: Courtroom: Judge:

N/A N/A N/A Hon. Claudia Wilken

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WHEREAS, at the Pretrial Conference the Court encouraged the parties to resolve any outstanding issues regarding the validity of any agreements for assignments of claims; WHEREAS, the Customer Plaintiffs1 and defendant Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott"), have met and conferred on these issues and have reached an agreement regarding the validity of the Individual Plaintiffs' assignments;

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED THAT: 1. As between the class that has been certified in Case No. 07-5985 ("Class Plaintiffs"

or "Class") and the plaintiffs in Case Nos. 07-5470 and 07-6120 ("Individual Pharmacy Plaintiffs"), all claims based on any purchases by a member of the Class for which Dr. Leffler calculates damages in his 2/11/2011 updates to his expert disclosures in this matter have been validly assigned from the relevant Class members to the relevant Individual Plaintiffs. (Abbott reserves all other bases on which to challenge any alleged liability in this matter or any plaintiff's alleged damages, including but not limited to those alleged damages stemming from assigned claims.) IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD: /s/ Stephanie McCallum Stephanie McCallum WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 35 W. Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] Email: [e-mail] Counsel for Abbott Laboratories

18 /s/ Monica L. Rebuck ____________________________ 19 Monica L. Rebuck, Pro Hac Vice HANGLEY ARONCHICK SEGAL & 20 PUDLIN 30 North Third Street, Suite 700 21 Harrisburg, PA 17101-1701 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] Email: [e-mail] 23 Lead Counsel for Rite Aid Corp., et al. 24 25 26 27 28
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1 2 /s/ Brendan P. Glackin 3 __ _______________________________ 4 Brendan Glackin LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & 5 BERNSTEIN, LLP Embarcadero Center West 6 275 Battery Street, 30th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111-3339 7 Counsel for Customer Class Plaintiffs 8 9 10 11 12 Dated: 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -2912913.1
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/s/ Scott E. Perwin ______________________________________ Scott Eliot Perwin, Pro Hac Vice KENNY NACHWALTER, PA 201 S. Biscayne Blvd. 1100 Miami Center Miami, Florida 33131 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] Email: [e-mail] Lead Counsel for Safeway Inc., et al.

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED 3/1/2011 Judge Claudia Wilken United States District Court Northern District of California

GENERAL ORDER 45 ATTESTATION In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I, Sarah R. London , the filer of this document, hereby attest that all the above counsel concurred in this filing. Dated: February 25, 2011