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Case 1:08-md-01941-GMS

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BEN T. CASTLE SHELDON N. SANDLER RICHARD A. LEVINE RICHARD A. ZAPPA FREDERICK W. IOBST RICHARD H. MORSE DAVID C. MCBRIDE JOSEPH M. NICHOLSON CRAIG A. KARSNITZ BARRY M. WILLOUGHBY ANTHONY G. FLYNN JEROME K. GROSSMAN EUGENE A. DIPRINZIO JAMES L. PATTON, JR. ROBERT L. THOMAS WILLIAM D. JOHNSTON TIMOTHY J. SNYDER BRUCE L. SILVERSTEIN WILLIAM W. BOWSER LARRY J. TARABICOS RICHARD A. DILIBERTO, JR. MELANIE K. SHARP CASSANDRA F. ROBERTS RICHARD J.A. POPPER TERESA A. CHEEK NEILLI MULLEN WALSH JANET Z. CHARLTON ROBERT S. BRADY JOEL A. WAITE BRENT C. SHAFFER DANIEL P. JOHNSON CRAIG D. GREAR TIMOTHY JAY HOUSEAL MARTIN S. LESSNER PAULINE K. MORGAN C. BARR FLINN NATALIE WOLF LISA B. GOODMAN JOHN W. SHAW JAMES P. HUGHES, JR. EDWIN J. HARRON MICHAEL R. NESTOR ROLIN P. BISSELL SCOTT A. HOLT JOHN T. DORSEY M. BLAKE CLEARY CHRISTIAN DOUGLAS WRIGHT DANIELLE GIBBS JOHN J. PASCHETTO NORMAN M. POWELL ELENA C. NORMAN EDMON L. MORTON JOHN E. TRACEY

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August 11, 2008 BY CM/ECF The Honorable Gregory M. Sleet United States District Court For the District of Delaware J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building 844 N. King Street Wilmington, DE 19801 Re: In re Alfuzosin Hydrochloride Litigation, C.A. No. 08-MD-1941-GMS Sanofi-aventis et al. v. Actavis South Atlantic LLC et al., C.A. No. 07-572-GMS Sanofi-aventis et al. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc., C.A. No. 07-574-GMS Sanofi-aventis et al. v. Apotex, Inc. et al., C.A. No. 07-792-GMS Sanofi-aventis et al. v. Wockhardt Limited, C.A. No. 08-150-GMS Sanofi-aventis et al. v. Apotex, Inc. et al., C.A. No. 08-347-GMS Sanofi-aventis et al. v. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. et al., C.A. No. 08-350-GMS

Dear Judge Sleet: The Parties in the above referenced actions write concerning the scheduling status of the consolidated MDL proceeding In re Alfuzosin Hydrochloride Litigation, C.A. No. 08-MD-1941GMS. On March 17, 2008, the Court held a telephone status conference, and on April 3, 2008, C.A. Nos. 07-572-GMS, 07-574-GMS, and 07-792-GMS were stayed pending the resolution of sanofi-aventis and sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC's motion for transfer of C.A. No. 07-618000 from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and consolidation under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ("the Panel").

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On June 9, 2008, the Panel issued a Transfer Order for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings of these four actions in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The Florida action was subsequently transferred to this District on June 17, 2008 and assigned C.A. No. 08-347-GMS. Two related tag-along actions, C.A. Nos. 08-150-GMS and 08350-GMS, are also pending before the Court. A Scheduling Conference has not yet occurred in any of the actions now consolidated before the Court. Accordingly, the Parties respectfully request that the Court set a Rule 16.1 Scheduling Conference at the Court's earliest convenience so the consolidated proceedings may move forward.

Respectfully,

/s/ James Walter Parrett, Jr. Jack B. Blumenfeld, Esquire James Walter Parrett, Jr., Esquire Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP PO Box 1347 Wilmington, DE 19899 [email protected] [email protected] On behalf of Plaintiffs

/s/ Karen E. Keller Karen L. Pascale (#) Karen E. Keller (#4489) Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP The Brandywine Building 1000 West Street, 17th Floor Wilmington, DE 19801 (302) 571-6600 [email protected] [email protected] On behalf of Defendants

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