City of Winter Haven v. Cleveland Indians Baseball Company Limited Partnership

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US District Court Middle District of Florida PLAINTIFFS' EXHIBIT Exhibit Number: 1 2 6:06md01769ACCDAB In Re: Seroquel Products Liability Litigation Date Identified: Date Admitted: Exhibit 12 Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 1 of 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION IN RE: Seroquel Products Liability Litigation Case No. 6:06-md-1769-Orl-22DAB ________________________________/ PLAINTIFFS' JOINT STATEMENT OF RESOLVED ISSUES AND NOTICE THAT A HEARING IS NOT REQUIRED As per this Court's Order, the parties have had several in-person meetings as well as numerous telephone conferences in order to resolve several outstanding IT issues. Plaintiffs are now satisfied that these issues have been resolved, as set forth below: Corrected Load File 1. Defendants have agreed that corrected load files, along with their counterpart .LFP and .DAT files for all previous productions will be re-sent to the Plaintiffs. Defendants have estimated that these corrections will take four weeks to produce. 2. Corrections of prior load files will include all changes agreed to by the Defendants as it pertains to the consistency of the MetaData and Bates numbering system as set forth below. Consistency of MetaData 1. Defendants have agreed to produce corrected load files for all previous productions, and Defendants will make both the field headings and Bates numbers consistent and with NO extraneous dashes, spaces or characters. 2. Defendants have agreed that all future labeling of Bates numbers will have NO extraneous Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 2 of 15 dashes, spaces or characters, and all Bates numbers should be in the form: AZSER0484646. 3. Defendants have agreed that the names of all SOURCE in the MetaData field should be separated consistently. 4. Defendants have agreed to consistently label the field names. a. If Defendants chose to use the label "Begin Bates", and "End Bates", they will consistently use these terms to the exclusion of all other labels such as "Beginning Bates." 5. Defendants have estimated that these corrections will take four weeks to produce. Swapped MetaData Fields 1. Defendants have agreed to check each .DAT file for all previous custodial productions IP1 throu gh IP14, for swapped MetaData fields and information and to make any corrections. Defendants have agreed to tell plaintiffs which load files contained swapped fields. Defendants estimate that this will take seven days to complete. 2. Defendants have agreed to check all future productions and to make all corrections. Page Breaks 1. Defendants have agreed to provide all page breaks for all productions for documents that are 10 or more pages in length from all previous productions IP1 through IP14 in the extracted text files for non-redacted documents. 2. Defendants agreed to put page breaks in all future productions for documents that are 10 or more pages in length, i.e. for all productions after IP14. -2- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 3 of 15 3. Plaintiffs have agreed to accept the inherent error rate for this process. However, the parties have agreed to continue to meet and confer on this issue, as Defendants have not yet implemented this process and are not sure what the error rate might be. 4. 5. Defendants do not guarantee this proposal's success. Plaintiffs have agreed to accept a rolling production with the corrected, extracted text files containing page breaks and agree that the format need not duplicate the initial production. 6. Defendants have stated that page breaks are not an issue for redacted files, as the OCR process underlying the redaction process puts page breaks in the documents. 7. Defendants estimate that it will take one week to put the program designed to fix the page break problem in place. Defendants represented that this process has already started. Thereafter, Defendants best estimate, with maximum utilization of Defendants' vendor's hardware capacity, is six weeks to correct the prior productions. This is based upon an estimate of approximately 1 million corrected pages per week. Defendants have agreed to notify Plaintiffs if any problems develop with regard to this schedule. Excel Spreadsheets 1. Defendants have agreed to provide Plaintiffs with copies of all incomplete Excel documents as previously noted and addressed in an e-mail to Rodney Miller. Defendants are still investigating the cause of this problem and will notify Plaintiffs whether they have conclusively determined whether additional Excel spreadsheets were affected. 2. It was agreed that Defendants will produce all Excel spreadsheets in MS Excel with scrubbed MetaData in read-only format. Defendants will provide a timetable as to when they can -3- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 4 of 15 complete this production. 3. The parties have agreed to meet and confer on a process to authenticate the Excel Spreadsheets, as they will not have Bates numbers. Objective Coding 1. Defendants were unsure if objective coding on native hardcopy documents was done, and will advise Plaintiffs if such coding exists. Privilege Logs 1. Defendants agreed to provide Plaintiffs with privilege logs that will include a SOURCE and a Bates Number that corresponds to the documents already produced by the Defendants. 2. Due to the delays in the production of documents, Defendants have agreed to use best efforts to provide Plaintiffs with the production of other privilege logs. Defendants have not promised to produce privilege logs faster than what is required under CMO2. 3. Plaintiffs raised the issue of how documents are redacted or identified for privilege. Plaintiffs understand these documents are pulled and identified separate from the custodial file. Plaintiffs saw this as a problem, as the documents once removed from the file do not give the reviewer any context in how they were kept and it impedes the flow of the review. Defendants' position was that their method of Bates stamping the documents and reviewing of same did not allow for the documents to remain within the custodial file production as a whole. However, Defendants have stated that the Source code is provided and from that Plaintiffs will know exactly where and from what Custodial file the document was pulled -4- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 5 of 15 from. Based upon these assurances, Plaintiffs believe that this issue has been resolved. Redaction Logs 1. 2. Defendants have agreed to provide consistent labeling of redaction information. As with privilege logs, Defendants agreed to provide redaction logs that will include a SOURCE and the Bates number that corresponds to the related documents. 3. Defendants have agreed to work with Plaintiffs in the coding of future document redactions on a page level instead of a document level as is done presently. Blank Documents 1. Plaintiffs have provided several examples of documents that are blank with corresponding MetaData that suggests the document should not be blank. Defendants are working with their vendor, but do not have an answer as to why this has happened. They have promised to advise Plaintiffs as soon as they have an answer. 2. Defendants have explained to Plaintiffs that these documents with listings that state, "Document is Blank", in the image are due to personal customization of e-mails with various designed document borders. a. Defendants have agreed to provide the Plaintiffs with a list of "File Names" that correlate to the "Document is Blank" images. IP10 Production 1. Defendants have explained to Plaintiffs that in production IP10, the folder "remaining non-5- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 6 of 15 produced 04290" was a correction of a vendor error. CANDA 1. Defendants have explained to Plaintiffs that documents contained within the CANDA database are currently in the production process. Defendants expect that these documents will be ready by June 8. 2007 and forwarded so that Plaintiffs will receive them by June 11, 2007. Foreign Language Documents 1. 2. Defendants produced foreign language documents for the 80 custodians identified to date. Defendants provided a breakdown of the different foreign languages used within these documents and the number of documents where each language appears in the documents. 3. The parties will discuss the costs of translation for said documents. 30(b)(6) Deposition Documents 1. Defendants have agreed to Bates number and provide all documents disclosed for the 30(b)(6) deposition in an electronic format. Certification of Custodial Files 1. Defendants have assured Plaintiffs that deleted e-mails or other documents from their system have been searched, as well as any documents that the custodian had access to, or worked with, that are related to Seroquel, but may not be in the SOLE custody of a particular -6- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 7 of 15 custodian. These documents are not found in a database, but rather a common hard drive where everyone on a particular team can access, create and/or store documents. 2. Defendants have assured Plaintiffs that their searches included the issues raised above and their Certification of Completeness will include those issues. Databases 1. The Parties will continue to meet and confer on database production so that a procedure can be worked out for their production. Production Key 1. Plaintiffs have provided Defendants with a key to the production numbering system used by the Plaintiffs with regards to the labels on the drives provided by the Defendants. As a result of the resolution of the above issues, the parties agree that no hearing is required on June 13, 2007. Dated: June 7, 2007 Respectfully Submitted By: /s/ Michael E. Pederson WEITZ & LUXENBERG, P.C. 180 Maiden Lane New York, NY 10038 Telephone: 212-558-5500 Facsimile: 212-363-2721 Attorneys for Plaintiffs -7- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 8 of 15 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 7th day of June, 2007, I electronically filed the foregoing PLAINTIFFS' JOINT STATEMENT OF RESOLVED ISSUES AND NOTICE THAT A HEARING IS NOT REQUIRED with the Clerk of the Court by using the CM/ECF system, which will send a Notice of Electronic Filing to the counsel listed on the attached Service List. I further certify that I mailed the foregoing document and the Notice of Electronic Filing by First-Class U.S. Mail delivery to the non-CM/ECF Participants listed on the attached Service List. /s/ Michael E. Pederson Michael E. Pederson T:\DMDL\Seroquel\MDL Court\MDL\Notices\2007-06-07 Statement of RESOLVED issues - No hearing Reqd.wpd -8- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 9 of 15 SERVICE LIST (As of May 15, 2007) In Re: Seroquel Products Liability Litigation MDL Docket No. 1769 - Orl - 22DAB Paul J. Pennock, Esq. Michael E. Pederson, Esq. Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. 180 Maiden Lane - 17th Floor New York, NY 10038 Telephone: (212) 558-5500 Ppennock@weitzlux.com Mpederson@weitzlux.com Camp Bailey, Esq. Fletcher Trammell, Esq. Michael W. Perrin, Esq. Bai ley Perrin Bailey LLP The Lyric Centre 440 Louisiana, Suite 2100 Houston, TX 77002 Telephone: (713) 425-7240 cbailey@bpblaw.com mperrin@bpblaw.com Tommy Fibich, Esq. Fibich, Hampton & Leebron, L.L.P. 1401 McKinney, Suite 1800 Five Houston Center Houston, TX 77010 Telephone: (713) 751-0025 tfibich@fhl-law.com John Driscoll, Esq. Brown & Crouppen, PC 720 Olive St. St. Louis, MO 63101 Telephone: (314) 421-0216 Jdriscoll@brownandcrouppen.com asmith@brownandcrouppen.com blape@brownandcrouppen.com Larry Roth, Esq. Law Offices of Larry M. Roth, P.A. Post Office Box 547637 Orlando, FL 32854-7637 Telephone: (407) 872-2239 LROTH@roth-law.com Matthew F. Pawa, Esq. Benjamin A. Krass, Esq. Law Offices of Matthew F.Pawa, P.C. 1280 Centre St., Suite 230 Newton Centre, MA 02459 Telephone: (617) 641-9550 Mp@pawalaw.com -9- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 10 of 15 Keith M. Jensen, Esq. Jensen, Belew & Gonzalez, PLLC 1024 North Main Fort Worth, TX 76106 Telephone: (817) 334-0762 kj@kjensenlaw.com Matthew E. Lundy, Esq. Lundy & Davis, LLP 333 North Sam Houston Parkway East Suite 375 Houston, TX 77060 Telephone: (281) 272-0797 . mlundy@lundydavis.com Scott Allen, Esq. Cruse, Scott, Henderson & Allen, L.L.P. 2777 Allen Parkway, 7th Floor Houston, Texas 77019 Telephone: (713) 650-6600 sallen@crusescott.com W. Todd Harvey, Esq. E. Ashley Cranford Whatley Drake & Kallas, LLC 2001 Park Place North, Suite 1000 Birmingham, AL 35203 Telephone: (205) 328-9576 THARVEY@whatleydrake.com ecf@whatleydrake.com Gregory P. Forney, Esq. Shaffer Lombardo Shurin 911 Main Street, Suite 2000 Kansas City, MO 64105 Telephone: (816) 931-0500 gforney@sls-law.com rbish@sls-law.com Attorney for Defendant, Marguerite Devon French Lawrence J. Gornick, Esq. William A. Levin, Esq. Dennis J. Canty, Esq. Levin Simes Kaiser & Gornick, LLP 44 Montgomery Street 36th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: (415) 646-7160 lgornick@lskg-law.com dcanty@lskg-law.com llsimes@levins-law.com jkaiser@lskg-law.com echarley@lskg-law.com ddecarli@lskg-law.com bsund@lskg-law.com astavrakaras@lskg-law.com Robert L. Salim, Esq. Robert L. Salim Attorney at Law PO Box 2069 Natchitoches, LA 71457-2069 Telephone: (318) 352-5999 robertsalim@cp-tel.net Eric B. Milliken, Esq. 3 Sir Barton Ct. Newark, DE 19702 Pro Se -10- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 11 of 15 Justin Witkin, Esq. Ken Smith, Esq. Aylstock, Witkin & Sasser, PLC 4400 Bayou Boulevard, Suite 58 Pensacola, FL 32503 Telephone: (850) 916-7450 Jwitkin@AWS-LAW.com ablankenship@aws-law.com aburrus@aws-law.com asmith@aws-law.com ksmith@aws-law.com noverholtz@aws-law.com jsafe@aws-law.com Aaron C. Johnson, Esq. Summers & Johnson 717 Thomas Weston, MO 64098 Telephone: (816) 640-9940 firm@summersandjohnson.com Todd S. Hageman, Esq. Simon and Passanante, PC 701 Market St., Suite 1450 St. Louis, MO 63101 Telephone: (314) 241-2929 thageman@spstl-law.com Louisiana Wholesale Drug Co. Inc. C/O Gayle R. White Registered Agent Highway 167N Sunset, LA 70584 Pro Se Catherine Solomon (current address unknown) Pro Se Randy Niemeyer 22442 Pike 309 Bowling Green, MO 63334-5209 Pro Se -11- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 12 of 15 Thomas Campion, Esq. Steven M. Selna Heidi E. Hilgendorff, Esq. Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP 500 Campus Drive Florham Park, New Jersey 07932-1047 Telephone: (973) 360-1100 tcampion@dbr.com steven.selna@dbr.com heidi.hilgendorff@dbr.com Attorneys for Defendants Janssen Pharmaceutical Products and Johnson & Johnson Co. Michael Davis, Esq. James Mizgala, Esq. Sidley, Austin, LLP Bank One Plaza One South Dearborn Street Chicago, IL 60603 Telephone: (312) 853-7731 mdavis@sidley.com jmizgala@sidley.com Attorneys for Defendants AstraZeneca LP and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP Elizabeth Raines, Esq. Baker, Sterchi, Cowden & Rice, LLC 2400 Pershing Road, Suite 500 Kansas City, MO 64108 Telephone: (816) 471-2121 raines@bscr-law.com Attorney for Defendant AstraZenca, PLC Mary B. Cotton John D. Giddens, P.A. 226 North President Street Post Office Box 22546 Jackson, MS 39225-2546 (601) 355-2022 betsy@law-inc.com Joseph C. Langston, Esq. The Langston Law Firm, PA P.O. Box 787 100 South Main Street Booneville, MS 38829-0787 Telephone: (662) 728-3138 tbalducci@langstonlaw.com Kenneth W. Bean, Esq. Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard One City Centre 15th Floor St. Louis, MO 63101-1880 Telephone: (314) 231-3332 kbean@spvg.com Attorney for Defendant Dr. Asif Habib -12- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 13 of 15 Robert L. Ciotti, Esq. Carlton Fields, P.A. 4221 W. Boy Scout Boulevard Suite 1000 Tampa, FL 33607-5736 Telephone: (813) 223-7000 rciotti@carltonfields.com Attorney for Defendants, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP and Astrazeneca LP Jona R. Hefner, Esq. 3441 W. Memorial, Suite 4 Oklahoma City, OK 73134-7000 Telephone: (405) 286-3000 attorneyokc@hotmail.com Aaron K. Dickey, Esq. K. Lindsay Rakers, Esq. Goldenberg and Heller, PC P.O. Box 959 2227 S. State Road 157 Edwardsville, IL 62025 Telephone: (618) 650-7107 aaron@ghalaw.com Mark P. Robinson, Jr., Esq. Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson 620 Newport Center Drive, 7th Floor Newport Beach, CA 92660 Telephone: (949) 720-1288 mrobinson@robinson-pilaw.com Robert A. Schwartz, Esq. Bailey & Galyen 18333 Egret Bay Blvd., Suite 120 Houston, TX 77058 Telephone: (281) 335-7744 bschwartz@galyen.com David P. Matthews, Esq. Lizy Santiago Matthews & Associates 2905 Sackett Houston, TX 77098 Telephone: (713) 222-8080 dmatthews@thematthewslawfirm.com lsantiago@thematthewslawfirm.com David Dickens Miller & Associates 105 North Alfred Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3010 (703) 519-8080 ddickens@doctoratlaw.com Howard Nations Lori A. Siler 4515 Yoakum Boulevard Houston, TX 77006-5895 Telephone: (713) 807-8400 nations@howardnations.com -13- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 14 of 15 Salvatore M. Machi Ted Machi & Associates, PC 18333 Egret Bay Blvd., Suite 120 Houston, TX 77058 Scott Burdine, Esq. Hagans Burdine Montgomery Rustay & Winchester, P.C. 3200 Travis, Fourth Floor Houston, TX 77006 Telephone: (713) 222-2700 sburdine@hagans-law.com Lizy Santiago, Esq. Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Matthews & Friend 800 Commerce Street Houston, TX 77002-1776 (713) 222-7211 lsantiago@abrahamwatkins.com Lowell Finson Phillips & Associates 3030 North 3rd Street Suite 1100 Phoenix, AZ 85012 (602) 258-8900, ext. 295 lowellf@phillipslaw.ws Pete Schneider, Esq. Grady, Schneider & Newman, L.L.P. 801 Congress, 4th Floor Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 228-2200 pschneider@gsnlaw.com Fred T. Magaziner Marjorie Shiekman A. Elizabeth Balakhani Shane T. Prince Eben S. Flaster DEC HER T LLP 2929 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (215) 994-4000 fred.magaziner@dechert.com shane.prince@dechert.com marjorie.shiekman@dechert.com eben.flaster@dechert.com elizabeth.balakhani@dechert.com Scott Armstrong 1719 West Main Street Suite 201 Rapid City, SD 57702 (605) 399-3994 scottarmstrong1235@eathlink.net Linda S. Svitak Faegre & Benson, LLP 90 South 7th Street, Suite 2200 Minneapolis, MN 55402-3901 (612)766-7000 lsvitak@faegre.com wjohnson@faegre.com -14- Case 6:06-md-01769-ACC-DAB Document 221 Filed 06/07/2007 Page 15 of 15 James J. Freebery McC art er & English, LLP 919 N. Market Street, 18th Floor Wilmington, DE 19801 (973) 622-4444 jfreebery@mccarter.com tpearson@mccarter.com Richard D. Hailey Ramey & Hailey 3891 Eagle Creek Parkway Suite C Indi ana pol is, IN (317) 299-0400 rhailey@sprynet.com Gale D. Pearson Stephen J. Randall Pearson, Randall & Schumacher, P.A. Fifth Street Towers, Suite 1025 100 South 5th Street Minneapolis, MN 55402 (612) 767-7500 attorneys@outtech.com Ellen R. Serbin Perona, Langer, Beck, Lalande & Serbin 300 San Antonio Drive Long Beach, CA 90807-0948 (562) 426-6155 davidhwang@plblaw.com B. Andrew List Clark, Perdue, Arnold & Scott 471 East Broad Street, Suite 1400 Columbus, OH 43215 (614) 469-1400 alist@cpaslaw.com lcollins@cpaslaw.com Robert H. Shultz Heyl, Royster 103 West Vandalia Street P.O. Box 467 Edwardsville, IL 62025 (618) 656-4646 rshultz@hrva.com bwallace@hrva.com -15-

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