Gallagher et al v. Bayer AG et al, No. 3:2014cv04601 - Document 150 (N.D. Cal. 2017)
Court Description: ORDER granting 149 STIPULATION Requesting Continuance of Class Certification and Summary Judgment Hearing. Reset Deadlines as to 136 MOTION for Summary Judgment and 129 MOTION to Certify Class. Motion Hearing continued to 10/18/2017 02:00 PM in Courtroom 2, 17th Floor, San Francisco before Hon. William H. Orrick. Signed by Judge William H. Orrick on 08/01/2017. (jmdS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/1/2017)
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Gallagher et al v. Bayer AG et al 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Doc. 150 Jonathan F. Cohn (pro hac vice) jcohn@sidley.com Benjamin M. Mundel (pro hac vice) bmundel@sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 1501 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Telephone: (202) 736.8000 Facsimile: (202) 736.8711 Ryan M. Sandrock (SBN 251781) rsandrock@sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 555 California Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: (415) 772.1200 Facsimile: (415) 772.7400 Attorneys for Defendants Bayer Corporation and Bayer HealthCare LLC 12 13 14 17 18 COLLEEN GALLAGHER, ILANA FARAR, ANDREA LOPEZ, JOANN CORDARO, and ROSANNE COSGROVE, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, 19 Plaintiffs, 20 21 22 23 24 25 KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP Robert N. Kaplan (pro hac vice) rkaplan@kaplanfox.com 850 Third Avenue, 14th Floor New York, New York 10022 Telephone: (212) 687-1980 Facsimile: (212) 687-7714 STANLEY LAW GROUP Stephen Henry Gardner (pro hac vice) steve@consumerhelper.com Amanda Howell (pro hac vice) ahowell@stanleylawgroup.com 6116 N. Central Expressway, Suite 1500 Dallas, Texas 75206 Telephone: (214) 443-4316 Facsimile: (214) 447-9469 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 15 16 Laurence D. King (SBN 206423) lking@kaplanfox.com Linda M. Fong (SBN 124232) lfong@kaplanfox.com 350 Sansome Street, Suite 400 San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone: (415) 772-4700 Facsimile: (415) 772-4707 Case No. 14-cv-04601-WHO STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REQUESTING CONTINUANCE OF CLASS CERTIFICATION AND SUMMARY JUDGMENT HEARING v. BAYER AG, BAYER CORPORATION, and BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC, Defendants. 26 27 28 STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER FOR CONTINUANCE OF HEARING—14-CV-04601-WHO Dockets.Justia.com 1 Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 6-2, the parties stipulate to and jointly request a brief 2 continuance of the Class Certification and Summary Judgment Hearing. The parties respectfully 3 request that the hearing be continued from September 27, 2017 to October 18, 2017. 4 Procedural History and Prior Extensions. An initial case management scheduling order 5 was entered on October 16, 2014. Dkt. 5. By stipulation, the Court entered an amended case 6 management scheduling order on December 22, 2014. Dkt. 38. Following an in-person meet and 7 confer, on December 11, 2015 the Court entered a revised briefing and discovery schedule. Dkt. 92. 8 9 10 During a discovery hearing on June 7, 2016, the Court extended the close of fact discovery from May 9, 2016 until July 9, 2016. Dkt. 115. On July 8, 2016 the parties filed a stipulation and proposed order on discovery and 11 scheduling. Dkt. 119. Pursuant to the stipulation, the Court extended the discovery schedule which 12 included extending the close of fact discovery from July 9, 2016 to September 9, 2016. Dkt. 120. 13 On September 6, 2016, Bayer filed a motion for extension of case deadlines to complete 14 discovery which Plaintiffs did not oppose. Dkt. 124. The Court granted the motion and extended all 15 case deadlines by 60 days. Dkt. 125. 16 On February 1, 2017, the parties filed a joint stipulation for further extension of the case 17 deadlines to permit Bayer to depose Plaintiffs’ expert witness Dr. Blonz on March 8, who was 18 unavailable before that date, and have adequate time to prepare its response brief. The Court granted 19 the motion for extension of case deadlines and moved the Class Certification Response deadline 20 from March 13, to March 24, 2017, the Class Certification Reply from April 27, to May 10, 2017 21 and the Class Certification Hearing from May 17, to May 30, 2017. 22 On April 7, 2017, the parties filed a joint stipulation for further extension of the case 23 deadlines. The parties requested the extension to allow Plaintiffs time to depose both of Bayer’s 24 expert witnesses, Dr. Blumberg and Dr. Kivetz, who were available for deposition April 14 and May 25 12 respectively, and time to prepare its responses to Bayer’s opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for 26 Class Certification and Bayer’s Motion for Summary Judgment. The Court granted the motion and 27 moved the date for Plaintiffs’ Summary Judgment Response from April 7, 2017 to July 7, 2017, 28 (1) STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER FOR CONTINUANCE OF HEARING—14-CV-04601-WHO 1 Plaintiffs’ Class Certification Reply from May 10, 2017 to July 7, 2017, Defendants’ Summary 2 Judgment Reply from April 14, 2017 to August 7, 2017, and the hearing on both motions from May 3 31, 2017 to August 23, 2017. Dkt. 139. 4 On July 11, 2017, the parties filed a joint stipulation requesting a 30-day extension of time 5 for Bayer to file its Reply to Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Summary Judgment, and a 30-day continuance 6 for the Class Certification and Summary Judgment Hearing. Dkt. 146. On July 13, 2017, the Court 7 granted the parties’ stipulation and extended the deadline for Bayer’s Reply from August 7, 2017 to 8 September 6, 2017. Dkt. 147. The Court subsequently set the Class Certification and Summary 9 Judgment Hearing for September 27, 2017. Dkt. 148. 10 Class Certification and Summary Judgment Hearing 11 Due to a scheduling conflict, counsel for Bayer seeks a 21-day continuance of the Class 12 Certification and Summary Judgment Hearing from September 27, 2017 to October 18, 2017. 13 Requested Extension 14 The parties respectfully request that the Court continue the Class Certification and Summary 15 Judgment Hearing as follows: 16 17 18 19 20 Deadline Current Date Requested Date Class Certification and September 27, 2017 October 18, 2017 Summary Judgment Hearing This request does not impact any other deadlines in the case. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (2) STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER FOR CONTINUANCE OF HEARING—14-CV-04601-WHO 1 Dated: July 28, 2017 Dated: July 28, 2017 2 STANLEY LAW GROUP SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 3 By: /s/ Stephen Gardner By: /s/ Jonathan F. Cohn Laurence D. King (SBN 206423) lking@kaplanfox.com Linda M. Fong (SBN 124232) lfong@kaplanfox.com 350 Sansome Street, Suite 400 San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone: (415) 772-4700 Facsimile: (415) 772-4707 Jonathan F. Cohn (admitted pro hac vice) jcohn@sidley.com Benjamin M. Mundel (admitted pro hac vice) bmundel@sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 1501 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Telephone: (202) 736.8000 Facsimile: (202) 736.8711 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP Robert N. Kaplan (admitted pro hac vice) rkaplan@kaplanfox.com 850 Third Avenue, 14th Floor New York, New York 10022 Telephone: (212) 687-1980 Facsimile: (212) 687-7714 Ryan Sandrock (SBN 251781) rsandrock@sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 555 California Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: (415) 772.1200 Facsimile: (415) 772.7400 -andSTANLEY LAW GROUP Stephen Henry Gardner (admitted pro hac vice) steve@consumerhelper.com Amanda Howell (admitted pro hac vice) ahowell@stanleylawgroup.com 6116 N. Central Expressway, Suite 1500 Dallas, Texas 75206 Telephone: (214) 443-4316 Facsimile: (214) 447-9469 Attorneys for Defendants Bayer Corporation and Bayer HealthCare LLC 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (3) STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER FOR CONTINUANCE OF HEARING—14-CV-04601-WHO 1 2 SIGNATURE ATTESTATION I am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used to file the foregoing 3 Stipulation and Proposed Order for Further Extension of Case Deadlines. In compliance with Civil 4 Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest that the signatory has concurred in this filing. 5 6 Dated: July 28, 2017 SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 7 8 By: /s/ Ryan Sandrock 9 Ryan Sandrock 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (4) STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER FOR CONTINUANCE OF HEARING—14-CV-04601-WHO 1 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS ORDERED: 2 The Class Certification and Summary Judgment Hearing is continued from September 27, 3 2017 to October 18, 2017. 4 5 Dated: August 1, 2017 ___________________________ The Honorable William H. Orrick United States District Judge 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (5) STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER FOR CONTINUANCE OF HEARING—14-CV-04601-WHO
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