United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit Chicago, Illinois 60604

January 19, 2018

Before

WILLIAM J. BAUER, Circuit Judge

DAVID F. HAMILTON, Circuit Judge

SARA L. DARROW, District Judge *

No. 17-2056 IN RE: TESTOSTERONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY PRODUCTS Appeal from the United States District LIABILITY LITIGATION Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. RODNEY GUILBEAU, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, MDL No. 2545 Master Docket Case No. 1:14-cv-01748 v. Matthew F. Kennelly, PFIZER, INC. and PHARMACIA & District Judge. UPJOHN COMPANY, LLC, Defendants-Appellees.

ORDER

In the multidistrict litigation docket that gave rise to this appeal (MDL No. 2545), the district court dismissed all cases with prejudice that involved the above-named defendants, Pfizer, Inc. and Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, LLC, the makers of the drug

* Of the Central District of Illinois, sitting by designation. No. 17-2056 Page 2

Depo-Testosterone. 1 Some of the more than one thousand individual cases subject to this appeal were resolved by final judgments, see Master Dkt. Nos. 1824, 1969, while others were resolved by partial final judgments pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b), see Master Dkt. Nos. 1865, 1970. By separate opinion issued today, we affirm the district court’s decisions with respect to both the defendants’ preemption defense and the denial of discovery on the preemption defense.

In the course of briefing this appeal, however, the parties have since noted the lack of complete diversity of citizenship in forty of the cases affected by these District Court orders. The list of these cases, contained in Appellate Dkt. 15-1, is reproduced below. In each case, there is at least one defendant who is a citizen of the same state as the plaintiff, which would ordinarily deprive the federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a),(c); McCready v. eBay, Inc., 453 F.3d 882, 890–91 (7th Cir. 2006) (noting complete diversity requirement). Though some cases may involve only one (non-diverse) defendant, it is possible that some of these cases may be properly brought against remaining diverse defendants and that the non-diverse defendants could and should be dismissed to preserve subject matter jurisdiction. It would be possible in theory for us to take these forty cases one by one to decide whether the non-diverse defendants are dispensable parties who should be dismissed on appeal. See Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain, 490 U.S. 826 (1989); 28 U.S.C. § 1653 (allowing amendment of defective jurisdictional allegations in both trial and appellate courts). Given the number of these cases, the paucity of relevant information before us, and the district court’s much greater familiarity with the details of the litigation and its effective management, we think the better course is to have the district court sort out these jurisdictional problems with more detailed assistance from counsel.

Accordingly, due to a lack of complete diversity of citizenship, the final judgments or partial final judgments entered by the district court in the cases listed below are VACATED and REMANDED for proceedings consistent with this order and the accompanying opinion issued in this appeal, No. 17-2056.

1The district court explained its conclusions in several case management orders issued March 7, 2016, March 30, 2017, April 18, 2017 and May 26, 2017. See Master Dkt. Nos. 1211, 1824, 1865, 1969, 1970. No. 17-2056 Page 3

CASES AFFECTED

Master Docket Non-Diverse Plaintiff/District Court Case Plaintiff’s Document Defendant(s) No. Citizenship Ordering to be Dismissed Dismissal Final Judgment Cases McKesson Evans, Sr. Glenn E., 16-cv-3668 CA 1824 Corporation McKesson Puryear, David, 16-cv-3650 CA 1824 Corporation Pharmacia & Barrett, Thomas, 16-cv-7627 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Bowen, III, Clinton, 16-cv-8749 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Dougherty, Michael, 15-cv-2824 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Dunn, Lawrence, 16-cv-1363 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Gomez, Luiz C., 16-cv-10157 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Hampton, Duane, 15-cv-9564 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Knight, Andre L., 16-cv-6039 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Lewis, Russell, 15-cv-8889 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC No. 17-2056 Page 4

Pharmacia & Lockner, Steven, 16-cv-8912 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Mangas, Brian, 16-cv-7617 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & McClerkin, Duncan, 15-cv-4757 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Morgan, Michael, 15-cv-6038 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Naragon, Robert C., 15-cv-6546 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Orzel, John F., 15-cv-11598 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Patrick, Tony N., 16-cv-4578 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Sawyers, Dennis, 15-cv-7590 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Stapples, Herman, 15-cv-11418 MI Upjohn Company 1824 LLC Pharmacia & Craig, Michael A., 17-cv-1451 MI Upjohn Company 1969 LLC Pharmacia & Fleeger, David, 17-cv-465 MI Upjohn Company 1969 LLC Pharmacia & Griffith, Gary, 17-cv-558 MI Upjohn Company 1969 LLC No. 17-2056 Page 5

Pharmacia & Hitz, Frank F., 17-cv-685 MI Upjohn Company 1969 LLC

Rule 54(b) Cases AbbVie Products Canion, Thomas, 15-cv-6448 GA 1865 LLC Henderson, Ronald E., 16-cv- AbbVie Products GA 1865 1527 LLC Johnson, Ralph Derrell, 16-cv- AbbVie Products GA 1865 1277 LLC AbbVie Products Linkous, Brian K., 16-cv-7186 GA 1865 LLC AbbVie Products Tallevast, John, 16-cv-1772 GA 1865 LLC AbbVie Products Thompson, Roger, 16-cv-1716 GA 1865 LLC Crawford, Edward Lee, 16-cv- FL Anda, Inc. 1865 1397 Gagnier, Peter T., 16-cv-1349 FL Anda, Inc. 1865 Jackson, Roosevelt, 16-cv-1158 FL Anda, Inc. 1865 Besins Healthcare King, John, 16-cv-3194 VA 1865 Inc. Pharmacia & Baggett, Dennie, 16-cv-7404 MI Upjohn 1865 Company LLC Pharmacia & Coursen, Michael, 16-cv-2676 MI Upjohn 1865 Company LLC Pharmacia & Harte, Patrick, 16-cv-3946 MI Upjohn 1865 Company LLC Pharmacia & Howse, Jr., John, 16-cv-1521 MI Upjohn 1865 Company LLC No. 17-2056 Page 6

Pharmacia & Sutphin, Anthony, 16-cv-4485 MI Upjohn 1865 Company LLC Barton, Terry, 17-cv-2262 FL Anda, Inc. 1970 Coffey, Robert J., 17-cv-626 FL Anda, Inc. 1970