Case details

Court: wvsd
Docket #: 2:13-cv-08449
Case Name: Watkins et al v. American Medical Systems, Inc.
PACER case #: 108076
Date filed: 2013-04-19
Date terminated: 2016-08-19
Assigned to: Judge Joseph R. Goodwin
Case Cause: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability
Nature of Suit: 365 Personal Inj. Prod. Liability
Jury Demand: Plaintiff
Jurisdiction: Diversity

Parties

Represented Party Attorney & Contact Info
Shelia A. Watkins
Plaintiff
Andy Dow Birchfield , Jr.
BEASLEY ALLEN CROW METHVIN PORTIS & MILES P. O. Box 4160 Montgomery, AL 36103-4160 334/269-2343 Fax: 334/954-7555 Email: andy.birchfield@beasleyallen.com
LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

P. Leigh O'Dell
BEASLEY ALLEN CROW METHVIN PORTIS & MILES P. O. Box 4160 Montgomery, AL 36103-4160 334/269-2343 Fax: 334/954-7555 Email: leigh.odell@beasleyallen.com
LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

Wesley Chadwick Cook
BEASLEY ALLEN CROW METHVIN PORTIS & MILES P. O. Box 4160 Montgomery, AL 36103-4160 334/269-2343 Fax: 334/954-7555 Email: Chad.Cook@BeasleyAllen.com
LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

Warner Mathis
Plaintiff
Andy Dow Birchfield , Jr.
(See above for address)
LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

P. Leigh O'Dell
(See above for address)
LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

Wesley Chadwick Cook
(See above for address)
LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

American Medical Systems, Inc.
Defendant
Barbara R. Binis
REED SMITH Three Logan Square, Suite 3100 1717 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 215/851-8100 Fax: 215/851-1420 Email: bbinis@reedsmith.com
LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

Documents

Date Filed Document # Attachment # Short Description Long Description Upload date SHA1 hash
2013-04-19 1 0 SHORT FORM COMPLAINT. Filing Fee $350.00. Receipt # 0425-2361417. (Attachment: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet) (jws) (Entered: 04/22/2013)
2013-04-22 2 0 TRANSMITTED PRETRIAL ORDER # 60 (SHOW CAUSE ORDER REGARDING DISMISSAL OF COLOPLAST A/S, COLOPLAST MANUFACTURING US, LLC AND PORGES S.A.) entered on 04/19/2013 in MDL 2325 to attorneys in member case. (Attachment: # 1 Exhibit A) (jap)
2016-08-08 3 0 NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE AND COUNSEL CONTACT INFORMATION FORM by Barbara R. Binis on behalf of American Medical Systems, Inc.. (Binis, Barbara)
2016-08-19 4 0 INACTIVE DOCKET ORDER Having been advised by counsel that in the cases listed on the attached Exhibit A, the plaintiffs and American Medical Systems, Inc. have agreed to a settlement model with regard to AMS. The Court finds it unnecessary to conduct further proceedings or to keep these cases on the active docket and ORDERS as follows: 1) all discovery deadlines are continued until further order of the Court, 2) the Clerk retire each of the cases listed on the attached Exhibit A from the active docket, 3) Plaintiffs and AMS may submit an agreed order of dismissal with prejudice on or before 10/31/2017; if settlements are not finalized and dismissal orders are not submitted by then the Court will have a hearing to determine the appropriate action pertaining to any remaining cases on the inactive docket. The Court and Counsel for plaintiffs and defendant(s) are directed to provide quarterly reports as to their progress. The Court will reinstate any case on the attached Exhibit A to the active docket if one of the parties, on motion, shows good cause for such reinstatement. This Order is related to the Proposed Inactive Docket Order filed at ECF No. 2648 in MDL Case No. 2325 AMS. Signed by Judge Joseph R. Goodwin on 8/19/2016. (cc: Clerk of the JPMDL; attys; any unrepresented party) (REF: MDL 2325; Cases Listed on Exhibit A) (jld)