In re Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation

Decision Date05 December 2006
Docket NumberNo. 04-MD-1596 (JBW).,04-MD-1596 (JBW).
Citation467 F.Supp.2d 256
PartiesIn re ZYPREXA PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. This Document Relates To: All Actions.
CourtU.S. District Court — Eastern District of New York

Shirley Manley, Pro se.

Larry T. Whiteley, Pro se.

Karen A. Calhoun, Pro se.

Russell Craig, Pro se.

Harold S. Criswell, Pro se.

Robert L. Hancock, Pro se.

Cynthia D. McDonald, Pro se.

Calsandra St. Cyr, Pro se.

Carolyn A. Stevens, Pro se.

Wanda L. Thomas, Pro se.

Cecilia M. Van, Pro se.

Gary L. Washington, Pro se.

Arthur McElroy, Lincoln, NE, Pro se.

Michael Joseph Miller, Miller & Associates, Alexandria, VA, Pro se.

Andrew R. Rogoff, Matthew J. Hamilton, Michael D. Raffaele, Nina M. Gussack, Andrew E. Kantra, Elizabeth M. Ray, Alexander A. Nikas, William J. Brennan, IV, Patricia M. Kipnis, Anthony Vale, Christopher Wasson, Kathleen M. Lockwood, Marlene S. Gomez, Pepper Hamilton LLP Philadelphia, PA, B. Todd Thompson, Millicent A. Tanner, Thompson Miller & Simpson PLC, Louisville, KY, Garland H. Barr, IV, J. Clarke Keller, Stites & Harbison PLLC, Lexington, KY, Diogenis C. Panagiotis, The Panagiotis Firm, Lafayette, LA, Elizabeth Haecker Ryan, Philip S. Brooks, Jr., Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, L.L.P., Brent A. Talbot, Peter J. Rotolo, Susanne M. Burstein, Stephanie Cory Morris, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, Jennifer Snyder Heis, Joseph P. Thomas, Ulmer & Berne, LLP, Cincinnati, OH, Bradley M. Risinger, Smith Moore LLP, Raleigh, NC, Charles Henry Carpenter, Janet Cara Goldberg, William J. Bethune, Pepper Hamilton, LLP, Washington, DC, Jon Berkelhammer, L. Cooper Harrell, Smith Moore LLP, Greensboro, NC, Jon Gilbert Roach, Watson & Hollow, PLC, Knoxville, TN, Alan Daniel Mathis, James C. Barton, Jr., Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Andrew B. See, John Francis Kuckelman, Katherine M. Hihath, Matthew T. Nickel, Jon A. Strongman, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Elizabeth Raines, Kara T. Stubbs, Thomas N. Sterchi, Baker, Sterchim Cowden & Rice, LLC, Kansas. City, MO, Charles F. Gotch, Michael K. Huffer, Cassem Tierney Law Firm, Omaha, NE, Colleen Theresa Davies, Dana Marchand Reedy, James M. Wood, James Mark Neudecker, Meghan Kathleen Landrum, Mary C. Tsai, Nadia Marie Bishop, Reed Smith Crosby Heafey LLP, Oakland, CA, Deborah L. Sterling, Jennifer Jackson Spencer, Fulbright & Jaworksi, Dallas, TX, Ian S. Ford, Jane Thompson Davis, Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough, Charleston, SC, James J. Dillon, Goley Hoag, LLP, Boston, MA, John R. Woodard, III, Thayla Painter Bohn, Feldman Franden Woodard Farris & Boudreaux, Tulsa, OK, Joseph M. Price, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, MN, Kathleen Anne Frazier, Gene M. Williams, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Suzan Kay Cardwell, Franklin Cardwell and Jones, Wesley Nagorny, III, Marshall & Mccracken, Houston, TX, Larry E. Hepler, W. Jason Rankin, Burroughs, Hepler et. al., Edwardsville, IL, Lisa A. Reppeto, Neville H. Boschert, Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A., Jackson, MS, Kenneth H. Zucker, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Berwyn, PA, David J. Lumber, James Michael Moore, Guerra & Moore, Ltd., LLP, McAllen, TX, Jennifer S. Kingston, Stephen G. Strauss, Bryan. Cave LLP, Allen Allred, Jason A. Wheeler, Jeffrey R. Fink, Thompson Coburn, LLP, Joseph F. Callahan, Baker & Sterchi, L.L.C., St. Louis, MO, Robert William Weber, Smith Weber Llp, Nicholas H. Patton, Patton & Tidwell, Texarkana, TX, Robin G. Weaver, Stephanie E. Niehaus, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P., Cleveland, OH, James P. Thomas, Pepper Hamilton, Pittsburgh, PA, Laurie Ann Weiss, Fulbright & Jaworski, San Antonio, TX, Janet H. Kwuon, Monica Y. Choi, Reed Smith Crosby Heafey, LLP, Catherine Valerio Barrad, Justin Ma, Rebecca Green Goldstein, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Alycen A. Moss, Smith Moore, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Francis Edmund Pierce, III, James M. Kloss, Cooney, Mattson, Lance, Blackburn, Richards & O'Connor, Orlando, FL, Andrew C. White, Susan M. Sharko, Thomas Francis Campion, Jr., Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP, Florham Park, NJ, Daniel J. Cohen, Coughlin Duffy, LLP, Morristown, NJ, Heather Oehlmann, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Princeton, NJ, Stephen M. Bressler, Lewis & Roca, LLP, Phoenix, AZ, Brian Hoyle, N. Eric Cooper, S. Calvin Capshaw, Brown McCarroll, L.L.P., Longview, TX, Cynthia R. Lamm, Jarrod S. Boitnott, Walter E. Zink, Baylor Evnen Law Firm, Lincoln, NE, Kristen Shea McLean, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA, for Defendants.

Peter Woodin, The Resolution Experts, New York City, Pro se.

Michael J. Goldberger, United States Attorney's Office, Brooklyn, NY, James M. Shaughnessy, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, New York City, Thomas D. Rogers, Richardson, Patrick, Westbrok & Brickman, L.L.C., Mount Pleasant, SC, for Interested Parties.

Lawrence J. Gornick, Levin Simes Kaiser & Gornick LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff and Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation.

Allan Berger, Allan Berger & Associates, P.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Marc Steven Albert, Seeger Weiss LLP, New York City, for Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation.

Samuel J. Abate, Jr., Mccarter & English, LLP, New York City, for Defendant and Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation.

MEMORANDUM & ORDER ON COMMON BENEFIT FUND AND CONTINUING APPLICABILITY OF ORDERS OF COURT AND SPECIAL MASTERS

WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.

                TABLE OF CONTENTS
                   I. INTRODUCTION .................................................................. 261
                  II. FACTS ......................................................................... 262
                      A. Litigation History ......................................................... 262
                      B. Access to Discovery
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