Piening et al v. Expedia, Inc. et al, No. 3:2012cv04805 - Document 9 (N.D. Cal. 2012)

Court Description: ORDER GRANTING Stipulation extending time re 5 . Signed by Judge Nathanael Cousins on 9/26/12. (lmh, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/26/2012)

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Expedia, Inc. et al 1 2 3 4 5 Doc. 9 Emily Johnson Henn (State Bar No. 269482) COVINGTON & BURLING LLP 333 Twin Dolphin Dr., Suite 700 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Telephone: (650) 632-4700 Facsimile: (650) 632-4800 ehenn@cov.com Attorneys for Defendants Expedia, Inc. and Hotels.com LP 6 [Additional counsel listed on signature page] 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 12 DAVID PIENING and EVELYN GONZALEZ, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Civil Case No.: 12-cv-4805 CLASS ACTION 13 Plaintiffs, 14 STIPULATION AND ORDER v. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 EXPEDIA, INC., HOTELS.COM LP; TRAVELOCITY.COM LP, SABRE HOLDINGS CORPORATION, PRICELINE.COM INCORPORATED, BOOKING.COM B.V., BOOKING.COM (USA), INC., ORBITZ WORLDWIDE, INC., HILTON WORLDWIDE INC., STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS WORLDWIDE, INC., MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC., TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTELS MANAGEMENT, LLC, KIMPTON HOTEL & RESTAURANT GROUP, LLC, INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP RESOURCES, INC., and JOHN DOES 1-100 24 Defendants. 25 26 STIPULATION EXTENDING TIME TO APPEAR, ANSWER, MOVE OR OTHERWISE RESPOND AND FOR STAY OF PROCEEDINGS 27 28 WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed the Complaint in this litigation on September 13, 2012; STIPULATION Civil Case No.: 12-cv-4805 Dockets.Justia.com 1 WHEREAS, all of the Defendants have agreed to waive service of the complaint; 2 WHEREAS, a number of duplicative complaints have been filed nationwide; 3 WHEREAS, a Motion for Consolidation and Transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 was filed 4 before the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (“JPML”) to coordinate and/or consolidate 5 all of the actions in one court; 6 WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendants Hotels.com LP, Travelocity.com LP, Expedia, 7 Inc., Priceline.com Incorporated, Booking.com B.V., Booking.com (USA), Inc., Sabre Holdings 8 Corporation, Orbitz Worldwide, Inc., Hilton Worldwide, Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts 9 Worldwide, Inc., Trump International Hotels Management, LLC, Marriott International, Inc., 10 InterContinental Hotels Group Resources, Inc., and Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, LLC 11 (collectively “Defendants”) expect that all of the actions will be coordinated and/or consolidated 12 before one court; 13 14 WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendants wish to preserve the parties’ and the court’s resources and efficiently manage the litigation so as not to cause prejudice; 15 NOW THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows: 16 1. Defendants will not be required to answer or otherwise plead in response to the 17 Complaint until 60 days after a consolidated amended complaint is filed in a transferee court. 18 Plaintiffs will file their opposition to any motion to dismiss, if filed, within 60 days thereafter. 19 In the event that the Motion for Consolidation and Transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 is denied, 20 the parties will confer within seven (7) days of the JPML’s order regarding the due date for 21 responsive pleadings in this action. No discovery shall be served in the above-styled matter 22 while this stipulation is in effect. 23 2. Defendants agree that they will seek this same stipulation in any related action 24 and, if they are unable to reach agreement, will file a motion to stay any related action before 25 filing a responsive pleading in those related actions. 26 27 3. In the event that Defendants voluntarily file or are ordered to file a responsive pleading in any other related action prior to the JPML’s decision, Defendants agree that this 28 STIPULATION Civil Case No.: 12-cv-4805 2 1 stipulation will become void and in that event, all of the parties agree to negotiate in good faith 2 regarding a responsive pleading date. 3 4. Defendants agree that they will engage in a conference pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. 4 P. 26(f) with Plaintiff within 14 days of appointment of lead counsel for the Plaintiffs in the 5 transferee court. 6 Dated: September 25, 2012 7 8 FOR PLAINTIFF: FOR DEFENDANTS: 9 By: By: 10 11 12 13 14 15 /s/ Yvonne Ballesteros Yvonne Ballesteros PRICE WAICUKAUSKI & RILEY, LLC 301 Massachusetts Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46204 Telephone: (317) 633-8787 Facsimile: (317) 633-8797 wriley@price-law.com yballesteros@price-law.com /s/ Emily Johnson Henn Emily Johnson Henn (SBN 269482) COVINGTON & BURLING LLP 333 Twin Dolphin Dr., Suite 700 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Telephone: (650) 632-4700 Facsimile: (650) 632-4800 ehenn@cov.com Attorneys for Defendants Expedia, Inc. and Hotels.com LP Attorneys for Plaintiffs David Piening and Evelyn Gonzalez By: 16 17 18 19 20 21 /s/ Timothy T. Scott Timothy T. Scott Leo Spooner III KING & SPALDING LLP 333 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 400 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Telephone: (650) 590-0700 Facsimile: (650) 590-1900 tscott@kslaw.com lspooner@kslaw.com Jeffrey S. Cashdan Christine A. Hopkinson Sarah E. Statz KING & SPALDING LLP 1180 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309 Telephone: (404) 572-4600 Facsimile: (404) 572-5100 jcashdan@kslaw.com chopkinson@kslaw.com sstatz@kslaw.com 22 23 24 25 26 27 Attorneys for Defendant InterContinental Hotels Group Resources, Inc. 28 STIPULATION Civil Case No.: 12-cv-4805 3 1 2 By: 3 4 5 6 /s/ Marie L. Fiala Marie L. Fiala Ryan M. Sandrock SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 555 California Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: (415) 772-1200 Facsimile: (415) 772-7400 mfiala@sidley.com rsandrock@sidley.com 7 Attorneys for Defendant Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, LLC 8 9 By: 10 11 12 13 /s/ Christopher J. Kelly Christopher J. Kelly (SBN 276312) MAYER BROWN LLP Two Palo Alto Square, Suite 300 3000 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306-2112 Telephone: (650) 331-2000 Facsimile: (650) 331-2061 cjkelly@mayerbrown.com 14 Robert E. Bloch Richard Ben-Veniste MAYER BROWN LLP 1999 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Telephone: (202) 263-3203 Facsimile: (202) 263-5203 rbloch@mayerbrown.com rben-veniste@mayerbrown.com 15 16 17 18 19 Attorneys for Defendants Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. 20 21 22 By: 23 /s/ Kevin J. Arquit Kevin J. Arquit SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP 425 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017 Telephone: (212) 455-2000 Facsimile: (212) 455-2502 karquit@stblaw.com 24 25 26 Attorneys for Defendants Priceline.com Incorporated, Booking.com (USA), Inc. and Booking.com B.V. 27 28 STIPULATION Civil Case No.: 12-cv-4805 4 1 2 By: 3 4 5 6 7 8 /s/ Christopher S. Yates Christopher S. Yates Daniel M. Wall Brendan A. McShane Jason L. Daniels LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 505 Montgomery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: (415) 391-0600 Facsimile: (415) 395-8095 chris.yates@lw.com dan.wall@lw.com brendan.mcshane@lw.com jason.daniels@lw.com 9 Attorneys for Defendant Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. 10 11 By: 12 /s/ George S. Cary George S. Cary Steven J. Kaiser 13 CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON LLP 14 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20006 New York, NY 10017 Telephone: (212) 974-1554 Facsimile: (212) 974-1999 gcary@cgsh.com skaiser@cgsh.com 15 16 17 18 Attorneys for Defendants Travelocity.com LP and Sabre Holdings Corporation 19 20 By: 21 22 23 24 /s/ Francis J. Burke, Jr. Francis J. Burke, Jr. Seyfarth Shaw LLP One Century Plaza 2029 Century Park East, Suite 3500 Los Angeles, CA 90067-3021 Telephone: (310) 201-5214 Facsimile: (310) 282-6993 fburke@seyfarth.com 25 Attorney for Defendant Trump International Hotels Management, LLC 26 27 28 STIPULATION Civil Case No.: 12-cv-4805 5 1 By: 2 3 4 5 6 7 /s/ Steven A. Newborn Steven A. Newborn Carrie M. Anderson Daniel E. Antalics WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP 1300 Eye Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, D.C. 20005 Telephone: (202) 682-7000 Facsimile: (202) 857-0940 steven.newborn@weil.com Of Counsel: James C. Egan, Jr. 8 Attorneys for Defendant Hilton Worldwide, Inc. 9 10 By: 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 /s/ Jeffrey Kilduff Jeffrey Kilduff Ian T. Simmons Katrina M. Robson O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 1625 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Telephone: (202) 383-5300 Facsimile: (202) 383-5414 Jkilduff@omm.com isimmons@omm.com krobson@omm.com Attorneys for Defendant Marriott International Inc. 18 19 20 ATTESTATION: Pursuant to General Order 45, Part X-B, the filer attests that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from all signatories. 21 IT IS SO ORDERED: FO Cousins H ER anael M. R NIA OO th Judge Na RT 28 IT IS S NO 27 United States District DERED Judge R LI 26 UNIT ED 25 S DISTRICT TE C TA RT U O 24 S 23 A 22 N F D IS T IC T O R STIPULATION Civil Case No.: 12-cv-4805 C 6 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 I hereby certify that on September 25, 2012, I electronically filed the foregoing 3 document using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the e-mail 4 addresses registered in the CM/ECF system, as denoted on the Electronic Mail Notice List, and I 5 hereby certify that I have caused to be mailed a paper copy of the foregoing document via the 6 United States Postal Service to the non-CM/ECF participants indicated on the Manual Notice 7 List generated by the CM/ECF system. 8 9 /s/ Emily Johnson Henn Emily Johnson Henn 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 STIPULATION Civil Case No.: 12-cv-4805 7

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