Lewis et al v. Rodan & Fields, LLC, No. 4:2018cv02248 - Document 136 (N.D. Cal. 2020)
Court Description: ORDER GRANTING 135 JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER AMENDING APRIL 9, 2020 ORDER AND ADR STIPULATION AND ORDER by Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton. (pjhlc2S, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 5/29/2020)
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Lewis et al v. Rodan & Fields, LLC Doc. 136 Case 4:18-cv-02248-PJH Document 136 Filed 05/29/20 Page 1 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP STEPHANIE A. SHERIDAN, State Bar No. 135910 ssheridan@steptoe.com ANTHONY J. ANSCOMBE, State Bar No. 135883 aanscombe@steptoe.com MEEGAN B. BROOKS, State Bar No. 298570 mbrooks@steptoe.com Spear Tower, 1 Market Street, Suite 3900 San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: (415) 365-6700 Facsimile: (415) 365-6678 Attorneys for Defendant, RODAN & FIELDS, LLC (Additional Attorneys Listed Below) 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA OAKLAND DIVISION 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 BARBARA LEWIS, AKEMI BUCKINGHAM, BOBBIE JOE HULING, CYNTHIA WHETSELL, MARTHA MERLE, ELAINA Case No.: 4:18-cv-02248-PJH HUFNAGEL, TERESA GATTUSO, ELISSA WAGNER, AND DIXIE WILLIAMS, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OTHERS SIMILARLY SITUATED, Plaintiffs. JOINT STIPULATION AND v. [PROPOSED] ORDER AMENDING APRIL 9, 2020 ORDER AND ADR RODAN & FIELDS, LLC, A DELAWARE STIPULATION AND ORDER LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, Defendant. 22 23 24 25 26 Plaintiffs and Defendant Rodan +Fields, LLC (“Rodan + Fields”) (collectively, the “Parties”), by and through their respective counsel of record, state as follows: 27 4:18-cv-02248-PJH STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER AMENDING ORDERS Dockets.Justia.com Case 4:18-cv-02248-PJH Document 136 Filed 05/29/20 Page 2 of 7 1. 1 In this litigation, the Parties are currently engaged in deposition discovery and 2 briefing on Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, filed on February 14, 2020. Rodan + Fields’ 3 opposition is currently due May 29, 2020, and Plaintiffs’ reply is due June 26, 2020. By this 4 stipulation and request for a new briefing order, the Parties respectfully request a further (short) 5 modification of the briefing schedule to allow for the completion of discovery suspended in light 6 of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2. 7 After Plaintiffs filed their motion for class certification, counsel for Rodan + 8 Fields completed depositions of five class representatives in Santa Barbara, Boston, and New 9 York. The depositions of two class representatives, Dixie Williams in Seattle, Washington and 10 Cynthia Whetsell in Peoria, Illinois, as well as the depositions of Plaintiffs’ experts, Laura 11 Periman in Seattle and Stephan Boedeker in Los Angeles, were postponed due to COVID-19 SIP 12 orders and related health advisories. In support of their reply briefing, counsel for Plaintiffs will 13 want to depose defense experts. 3. 14 The Parties in this case have coordinated discovery with the parties in the related 15 state-court coordinated proceeding, Gorzo, et al. v. Rodan & Fields, LLC, JCCP No. 4891 (Cal. 16 Super. Ct, San Francisco County), where class certification briefing is also underway and 17 proceeding on a similar schedule. 4. 18 Lead counsel for the Parties, located in California, Illinois and Washington, and 19 the named Parties, including many of Rodan + Fields’ employees, have been subject to SIP 20 orders since approximately mid-March due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Because these 21 orders have been extended through May, Rodan + Fields has not been able to complete the 22 depositions of the remaining Plaintiffs or their experts. 1 The current state of affairs has imposed 23 24 25 26 27 1 https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-announces-extended-stay-home-orderoutlines-plan-to-reopen-washington-in-phases/; https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essentialneeds/; https://www2.illinois.gov/dceo/Media/PressReleases/Pages/PR20200423.aspx; See https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/04/27/coronavirus-update-bay-area-public-health-officers-toextend-revise-shelter-in-place-orders/; https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/04/27/coronavirus-updatesan-francisco-shuts-down-golden-gate-parks-jfk-drive-to-allow-social-distancing/ 4:18-cv-02248-PJH STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER AMENDING ORDERS Case 4:18-cv-02248-PJH Document 136 Filed 05/29/20 Page 3 of 7 1 burdens on the ability of counsel to prepare and submit briefing in connection with Plaintiffs’ 2 motion for class certification, and to obtain supporting evidence from party witnesses and 3 experts. Although it is the strong preference of R+F to conduct depositions in person, the Parties 4 acknowledge that there are technological solutions available that would allow depositions and 5 briefing to go forward in June, even if the current SIP order remain in place. 6 5. In light of the foregoing, the Parties have met and conferred, and have agreed on 7 small adjustments to the existing schedule. The Parties therefore respectfully request that the 8 current deadlines be extended, and that the Court’s April 8, 2020 Order be amended as follows: 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 • • • • • Rodan + Fields’ Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion for Class Certification to be filed by July 3, 2020; Plaintiffs’ Reply in Support of its Motion for Class Certification to be filed by July 31, 2020; Expert disclosure by Rodan + Fields due by July 3, 2020; Plaintiffs’ rebuttal expert disclosure due by July 31, 2020; and The Parties must complete the private mediation contemplated by the October 15, 16 2019 Stipulation and Order, ECF No. 83, the January 23, 2020 Order, ECF No. 86, 17 and the April 8, Order, ECF No. 134, at a mutually convenient time and location 18 on or before August 24, 2020. 19 IT IS SO STIPULATED, through Counsel of Record, who respectfully request that this Court 20 enter the accompanying order. 21 22 Dated: May 28, 2020 23 /s/ Stephanie A. Sheridan__________ Counsel for Defendant Stephanie A. Sheridan (Bar No. 135910) Anthony J. Anscombe (Bar No. 135883) Meegan B. Brooks (Bar No. 298570) STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP Spear Tower 24 25 26 27 4:18-cv-02248-PJH STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER AMENDING ORDERS Case 4:18-cv-02248-PJH Document 136 Filed 05/29/20 Page 4 of 7 1 Market Street, Suite 3900 San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: (415) 365-6700 Facsimile: (415) 365-6678 ssheridan@steptoe.com aanscombe@steptoe.com mbrooks@steptoe.com 1 2 3 4 5 Darlene K. Alt (IL State Bar No. 6228745) (Admitted pro hac vice) Mary E. Buckley (IL State Bar No. 6275472) (Admitted pro hac vice) STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP 227 W. Monroe Street, Suite 4700 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Telephone: (312)-577- 1300 Facsimile: (312)-577-1370 dalt@steptoe.com mbuckley@steptoe.com 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Attorneys for Defendants 13 14 15 Dated: May 28, 2020 /s/ Juli E. Farris________ Counsel for Plaintiffs Juli E. Farris (Bar No. 141716) KELLER ROHRBACK L.L.P. 801 Garden Street, Suite 301 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 456 - 1496 Fax (805) 456-1497 jfarris@kellerrohrback.com 16 17 18 19 20 21 Michael D. Woerner, admitted pro hac vice Ryan McDevitt, admitted pro hac vice Benjamin Gould (Bar No. 250630) Erika M. Keech, admitted pro hac vice KELLER ROHRBACK L.L.P. 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3200 Seattle, WA 98101-3052 (206) 623-1900; Fax: (206) 623-3384 mwoerner@kellerrohrback.com rmcdevitt@kellerrohrback.com bgould@kellerrohrback.com ekeech@kellerrohrback.com 22 23 24 25 26 27 4:18-cv-02248-PJH STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER AMENDING ORDERS Case 4:18-cv-02248-PJH Document 136 Filed 05/29/20 Page 5 of 7 Jeffrey Lewis (Bar No. 66587) KELLER ROHRBACK L.L.P. 300 Lakeside Drive, Suite 1000 Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 463-3900, Fax (510) 463-3901 jlewis@kellerrohrback.com 1 2 3 4 5 Marc L. Godino (Bar No. 182689) Danielle L. Manning (Bar No. 313272) GLANCY PRONGAY & MURRAY LLP 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100 Los Angeles, CA 90067 (310) 201-9150; Fax: (310) 201-9160 mgodino@glancylaw.com dmanning@glancylaw.com 6 7 8 9 10 Rosemary M. Rivas (Bar No. 209147) LEVI & KORSINSKY LLP 44 Montgomery Street, Suite 650 San Francisco, CA 94104 (415) 291-2420, Fax: (415) 484-1294 rrivas@zlk.com 11 12 13 14 Joseph G. Sauder SAUDER SCHELKOPF 555 Lancaster Avenue Berwyn, PA 19312 (610) 200-0580 jgs@sstriallawyers.com 15 16 17 18 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 4:18-cv-02248-PJH STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER AMENDING ORDERS Case 4:18-cv-02248-PJH Document 136 Filed 05/29/20 Page 6 of 7 ATTESTATION OF FILER 1 2 I, Stephanie A. Sheridan, am the ECF user whose identification and password are being 3 used to file this STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5- 4 1(i)(3), I hereby attest that all other signatories to this document concurred in its filing. 5 By: 6 7 /s/ _Stephanie A. Sheridan___________ Stephanie A. Sheridan 8 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 9 I, Stephanie A. Sheridan, hereby certify that on May 28, 2020, I electronically filed the 10 11 foregoing with the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Northern District of 12 California using the CM/ECF system, which shall send electronic notification to all counsel of 13 record. 14 15 By: 16 /s/ Stephanie A. Sheridan_____________ Stephanie A. Sheridan 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 4:18-cv-02248-PJH STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER AMENDING ORDERS Case 4:18-cv-02248-PJH Document 136 Filed 05/29/20 Page 7 of 7 [PROPOSED] ORDER 1 2 Pursuant to the Parties’ stipulation, the Court hereby ORDERS: 3 1. The Court’s April 8, 2020 Order shall be amended as follows: • 4 5 • 6 7 • 8 • 9 10 2. Rodan + Fields’ Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification to be filed by July 3, 2020; Plaintiffs’ Reply in Support of its Motion for Class Certification to be filed by July 31, 2020; Expert disclosure by Rodan + Fields due by July 3, 2020; and Plaintiffs’ rebuttal expert disclosure due by July 31, 2020. The October 15, 2019 Stipulation and Order Selecting ADR Process is amended 11 to provide that the Parties must complete the private mediation contemplated by the October 15, 12 2019 Stipulation and Order, ECF No. 83, the January 23, 2020 Order, ECF No. 86, and the April 13 8, 2020, ECF No. 134, at a mutually convenient time and location on or before August 24, 2020. 14 15 IT IS SO ORDERED. 16 17 29 2020 Dated: May ___, /s/ Phyllis J. Hamilton The Honorable Phyllis J. Hamilton 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 4:18-cv-02248-PJH STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER AMENDING ORDERS
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