EASTERLING et al v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, INC.

Filing 21

MOTION to Stay Proceedings filed by NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, INC..Certificate of Service. (Attachments: # 1 Memorandum of Law, # 2 Exhibit A, # 3 Exhibit B, # 4 Exhibit C, # 5 Exhibit D, # 6 Text of Proposed Order)(KARP, BRAD)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
CHARLES RAY EASTERLING and his
wife, MARY ANN EASTERLING, et al.,

CIVIL ACTION
Case No. 11-CV-05209-AB

Plaintiffs,
v.
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE,
INC.,
Defendant.

THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE’S
MOTION FOR A STAY OF PROCEEDINGS
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT, upon the Memorandum of Law in Support of
the National Football League’s Motion for a Stay of Proceedings, and all other papers and
proceedings herein, the National Football League (“NFL”) respectfully moves this Court for an
order staying all proceedings in this action until at least 30 days after the Judicial Panel on
Multidistrict Litigation issues a final ruling on the NFL’s pending request, pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
§ 1407, for transfer of three actions pending in the United States District Court for the Central
District of California to this Court, for pretrial coordination and consolidation with this action.
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Dated: November 17, 2011

Respectfully submitted,
By:

/s/ Brad S. Karp

PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON &
GARRISON LLP
Brad S. Karp
Theodore V. Wells, Jr.
Bruce Birenboim
Beth A. Wilkinson
Lynn B. Bayard
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019-6064
[phone]
DUANE MORRIS LLP
John J. Soroko (Pa. Atty. ID 25987)
Dana B. Klinges (Pa. Atty. ID 57943)
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
[phone]
Attorneys for Defendant

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, Brad S. Karp, hereby certify that on November 17, 2011, the foregoing
National Football League’s Motion for a Stay of Proceedings, the Memorandum of Law
in support thereof, and the exhibits thereto have been filed electronically and are
available for downloading and viewing from the Court’s ECF system by all counsel of
record.

Dated: November 17, 2011

By: Brad S. Karp