Opinion
Nos. MDL 1407, 03-cv-02695, 03-cv-02696, 03-cv-02697, 03-cv-02698, 03-cv-02699, 03-cv-02700, 03-cv-02702, 03-cv-02767, 03-cv-03420.
September 30, 2004
ORDER GRANTING NOVARTIS' MOTION FOR ENTRY ON DOCKET OF DISMISSAL ORDER FROM ORIGINAL MULTI-PLAINTIFF CASE
Novartis Corporation, Novartis Consumer Health, Inc. and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (collectively the "Novartis defendants") filed a motion to have this Court's prior order of dismissal with prejudice of the Novartis defendants as to the claims of each of the above-referenced plaintiffs entered on the docket of each plaintiff's individual case. The prior dismissal order, originally entered on August 23, 2003, and subsequently amended on August 28, 2003, was entered with respect to the multi-plaintiff case, Virginia Madison, et al. v. Bayer Corporation, et al., USDC, W.D.WA, No. 2:03-cv-1106-BJR (MDL-1407), from which each of the above-referenced individual cases was subsequently severed.
Having considered the motion, the Court hereby GRANTS the Novartis defendants' motion for entry of the prior dismissal order on the docket for each of the above-referenced individual cases.