Sparkman v. Comerica Bank et al, No. 4:2023cv02028 - Document 78 (N.D. Cal. 2024)
Court Description: ORDER GRANTING 77 STIPULATION to Extend Discovery Cutoff: Rebuttal experts to be disclosed and reports due by 7/2/2024; All Non-Expert Discovery to be completed by 7/26/2024; and All discovery from experts to be completed by 7/26/2024. Signed by Chief Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu on 6/17/2024. (ig, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 6/17/2024)
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Sparkman v. Comerica Bank et al Doc. 78 Sophia M. Rios, CSB #305801 Email: srios@bm.net 2 BERGER MONTAGUE PC 8241 La Mesa Blvd., Suite A 3 La Mesa, California 91942 Telephone: (619) 489-0300 4 Facsimile: (215) 875-4604 1 5 [Additional Counsel Appear on Signature Page] 6 Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Proposed Class 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA OAKLAND DIVISION 8 9 10 PAULA SPARKMAN, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, 11 Plaintiff, 12 v. 13 14 COMERICA BANK, a foreign corporation, and CONDUENT STATE & LOCAL SOLUTIONS, 15 INC., a foreign corporation, 16 NO. 4:23-cv-02028-DMR STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF The Honorable Donna M. Ryu CLASS ACTION Defendants. 17 18 19 I. 20 21 1. STIPULATION The parties respectfully request a six-week extension of the existing discovery 22 cutoff in this proposed class action. They request a two-week extension of the time to serve 23 rebuttal expert reports. 24 2. The Court set case management deadlines last August. ECF No. 43, 44. The 25 parties sought and obtained a prior three-week extension of those deadlines. ECF No. 73. The 26 schedule sets June 14, 2024, as the deadline for completion of non-expert discovery and June 18, 27 2024, as the due date for rebuttal expert reports. STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF - 1 Case No. 4:23-cv-02028-DMR TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 TEL. 206.816.6603 x FAX 206.319.5450 www.terrellmarshall.com Dockets.Justia.com 1 3. The parties have completed significant discovery in accordance with those 2 deadlines. Plaintiff has propounded three sets of written discovery to Conduent and one set of 3 written discovery to Comerica Bank. Conduent is producing documents on a rolling basis but its 4 production of responsive documents is not yet complete. 5 6 4. Defendants have propounded two sets of written discovery to Plaintiff, to which she has responded. 7 5. Plaintiff has deposed five Conduent employees and Defendants have deposed 8 Plaintiff. 9 10 6. Each party has served its initial expert report. 11 7. After completing her second round of Conduent employee depositions, Plaintiff 12 noticed two additional Conduent employee depositions, Rule 30(b)(6) depositions of each 13 Defendant, and the deposition of Defendants’ expert. Plaintiff sent those notices more than two 14 weeks before the current discovery cutoff. Despite the parties’ cooperation in scheduling issues, 15 they have not been able to schedule the noticed depositions in advance of the current discovery 16 cutoff. 17 18 8. In addition, Defendants’ production of documents responsive to Plaintiff’s written discovery requests is ongoing. 19 9. Finally, Plaintiff has issued a subpoena and a public records request to the 20 California Department of Child Support Services for the agency’s documents relating to its 21 contract with Defendants and its communications with Defendants. The agency has advised 22 Plaintiff that it cannot complete its production of responsive documents by June 14, and will 23 likely need until at least late July to complete the production. 24 25 10. In order to allow the parties to complete discovery, they request a six-week 26 extension of the current discovery cutoff and two-week extension of the time to serve rebuttal 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF - 2 Case No. 4:23-cv-02028-DMR TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 TEL. 206.816.6603 x FAX 206.319.5450 www.terrellmarshall.com 1 expert reports. The proposed extension of the discovery cutoff does not necessitate an extension 2 of the due date for Plaintiff’s motion for class certification or other case schedule deadlines. 3 11. This is the parties’ second request for an extension of case scheduling deadlines. 12. There is good cause to grant the requested extension because despite their 4 5 diligence the parties have not been able to complete discovery in advance of the current cutoff 6 date. The parties have worked cooperatively to resolve discovery disputes, including the disputes 7 raised in a joint letter submission to the Court (see ECF No. 75), and accommodate scheduling 8 conflicts in completing discovery. 9 10 13. The parties believe that the requested extension can be approved without the need 11 to change the trial date, though they leave that decision to the Court. 12 Event 13 Current Deadline Proposed Deadline 14 All Non-Expert Discovery Completed 6/14/2024 7/26/2024 15 Rebuttal experts disclosed and reports provided 6/18/2024 7/2/2024 All discovery from experts completed by 7/18/2024 7/26/2024 Class certification motion filed 7/19/2024 Unchanged Opposition to class certification motion 8/16/2024 Unchanged Reply to class certification motion 8/30/2024 Unchanged 10/24/2024 at 1:00 p.m. Unchanged Last day for hearing dispositive motions 1/9/2025 at 1:00 p.m. Unchanged 24 Pretrial Conference 2/19/2025 at 3:00 p.m. Unchanged 25 Jury Trial 3/3/2025 at 9:00 a.m. Unchanged 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Hearing on class certification motion 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF - 3 Case No. 4:23-cv-02028-DMR TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 TEL. 206.816.6603 x FAX 206.319.5450 www.terrellmarshall.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 STIPULATED TO AND DATED this 13th day of June, 2024. TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP By: /s/ Blythe H. Chandler Beth E. Terrell, CSB #178181 Email: bterrell@terrellmarshall.com Blythe H. Chandler, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: bchandler@terrellmarshall.com Jasmin Rezaie-Tirabadi, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: jrezaie@terrellmarshall.com 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 Telephone: (206) 816-6603 By: /s/ John C. Grugan John C. Grugan, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: john.grugan@hklaw.com 1650 Market Street, Suite 3300 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Telephone: (215) 252-9610 Sophia M. Rios, CSB #305801 Email: srios@bm.net BERGER MONTAGUE PC 8241 La Mesa Blvd., Suite A La Mesa, California 91942 Telephone: (619) 489-0300 Daniel A. Schlanger, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: dschlanger@consumerprotection.net SCHLANGER LAW GROUP LLP 80 Broad Street, Suite 1301 New York, New York 10016 Telephone: (212) 500-6114 18 19 Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Proposed Class Mitchell Turbenson, CSB #346024 Email: turbensonm@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 2029 Century Park East, Suite 1400 Los Angeles, California 90067 Telephone: (424) 204-4400 Jenny N. Perkins, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: perkinsj@ballardspahr.com Colin P. Kane, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: kanec@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 1735 Market Street, 51st Floor Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Telephone: (215) 665-8500 Attorneys for Defendants Comerica Bank and Conduent State & Local Solutions, Inc. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF - 4 Case No. 4:23-cv-02028-DMR TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 TEL. 206.816.6603 x FAX 206.319.5450 www.terrellmarshall.com 1 2 LOCAL RULE 5-1(h)(3) STATEMENT Pursuant to Local Rule 5-1(h)(3), I hereby attest that concurrence in the filing of this 3 document has been obtained from counsel for all parties, and that I will maintain records to 4 support this concurrence by all counsel subject to this document as required under the local rules. 5 DATED this 13th day of June, 2024. 6 TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC 7 8 9 10 11 By: /s/ Blythe H. Chandler Blythe H. Chandler, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: bchandler@terrellmarshall.com 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 Telephone: (206) 816-6603 Facsimile: (206) 319-5450 12 13 Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Proposed Class 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF - 5 Case No. 4:23-cv-02028-DMR TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 TEL. 206.816.6603 x FAX 206.319.5450 www.terrellmarshall.com 1 II. ORDER 2 3 IT IS SO ORDERED. The case scheduling deadlines are reset to the following: 4 Event 5 Deadline Rebuttal experts disclosed and reports provided 7/2/2024 8 Complete all discovery, including expert discovery 7/26/2024 9 Class certification motion filed 7/19/2024 Opposition to class certification motion 8/16/2024 Reply to class certification motion 8/30/2024 6 7 10 11 12 10/24/2024 at 1:00 p.m. 13 Hearing on class certification motion 14 Last day for hearing dispositive motions 1/9/2025 at 1:00 p.m. Pretrial Conference 2/19/2025 at 3:00 p.m. Jury Trial 3/3/2025 at 9:00 a.m. 15 16 17 D RDERE OO IT IS S 22 NO RT onn Judge D 24 25 26 u A H ER a M. Ry LI 23 R NIA 21 S DATED this 17th day of June, 2024. UNIT ED 20 RT U O 19 ISTRIC ES D TC T A T FO 18 N F D IS T IC T O R C THE HONORABLE DONNA M. RYU Chief Magistrate Judge 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF - 6 Case No. 4:23-cv-02028-DMR TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 TEL. 206.816.6603 x FAX 206.319.5450 www.terrellmarshall.com 1 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Blythe H. Chandler, hereby certify that on June 13, 2024, I electronically filed the 3 foregoing with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification to 4 all registered CM/ECF users: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Mitchell Turbenson, CSB #346024 Email: turbensonm@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 2029 Century Park East, Suite 1400 Los Angeles, California 90067 Telephone: (424) 204-4400 Jenny N. Perkins, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: perkinsj@ballardspahr.com Colin P. Kane Email: kanec@ballardspahr.com BALLARD SPAHR LLP 1735 Market Street, 51st Floor Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Telephone: (215) 665-8500 John C. Grugan, Admitted Pro Hac Vice Email: john.grugan@hklaw.com HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP 1650 Market Street, Suite 3300 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Telephone: (215) 252-9610 Attorneys for Defendants Comerica Bank and Conduent State & Local Solutions, Inc. DATED this 13th day of June, 2024. 22 23 24 By: /s/ Blythe H. Chander Blythe H. Chandler, Admitted Pro Hac Vice 25 26 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF - 7 Case No. 4:23-cv-02028-DMR TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC 936 North 34th Street, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103-8869 TEL. 206.816.6603 x FAX 206.319.5450 www.terrellmarshall.com
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