Alger v. FCA US LLC

Filing 65

STIPULATION and ORDER signed by District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr on 6/11/19 ORDERING Defendant's opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Class Certification will be due on or before 7/15/19, along with any declarations or reports from experts in support of same; Plaintiff's reply in support of his Motion for Class Certification will be due on or before 8/30/19. (Becknal, R)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 DYKEMA GOSSETT LLP James P. Feeney (219045) jfeeney@dykema.com Fred J. Fresard (pro hac vice) Dommond E. Lonnie (142662) Krista Lenart (pro hac vice) Klenart@dykema.com Brittany J. Mouzourakis (pro hac vice) Bmouzourakis@dykema.com dlonnie@dykema.com Abirami Gnanadesigan (263375) agnanadesigan@dykema.com 333 South Grand Avenue Suite 2100 Los Angeles, CA 90071 Telephone: (213) 457-1800 Facsimile: (213) 457-1850 Attorneys for Defendant FCA US LLC 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 13 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 14 15 SHAWN ALGER as an individual and on behalf of all others similarly situated, 16 19 20 21 STIPULATION TO EXTEND CLASS CERTIFICATION BRIEFING SCHEDULE; ORDER Plaintiff, 17 18 Case No.: 2:18-cv-00360-MCE-EFB v. FCA US LLC f/k/a CHRYSLER GROUP LLC, a Delaware Corporation, and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive, Assigned to Hon. Morrison C. England, Jr. Courtroom 7, 14th Floor Complaint Filed: February 16, 2018 Defendants. 22 23 24 Pursuant to Eastern District of California Local Rules 143 and 144, Plaintiff Shawn Alger 25 (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant FCA US LLC f/k/a Chrysler Group LLC (“Defendant” or “FCA US”) 26 (collectively, the “Parties”), by and through their attorneys of record, hereby stipulate as follows: 27 28 STIPULATION WHEREAS, this case is a putative class action lawsuit wherein Plaintiff alleges that certain 1 STIPULATION TO EXTEND BRIEFING SCHEDULE 2:18-cv-00360-MCE-EFB 1 models of vehicles manufactured by Defendant are defective; 2 WHEREAS, the Parties previously negotiated a schedule for briefing class certification and 3 completing merits discovery, where Plaintiff’s deadline to file his motion for class certification was 4 April 30, 2019, Defendant’s deadline to file its opposition was June 30, 2019, and the deadline for 5 Plaintiff’s reply in support of his motion for class certification was July 30, 2019. The proposed 6 deadline to complete merits-based discovery was November 30, 2019. These deadlines were set 7 forth in the Parties’ Stipulation and [Proposed] Order Regarding Class Certification Briefing 8 Schedule and Close of Merits Discovery, filed on February 27, 2019. (Dkt. No. 46.); 9 WHEREAS, on March 4, 2019, the Court entered an Order granting the Parties’ proposed 10 schedule on class certification and merits discovery. (Stip. and Order Regarding Class Cert. 11 Briefing Schedule and Close of Merits Disc.) (Dkt. No. 47.) 12 13 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Court’s Order, Plaintiff filed his motion for class certification and accompanying documents on April 30, 2019. 14 WHEREAS, on or around April 29, 2019, Defendant contacted Plaintiff to request a two- 15 week extension for filing its opposition to Plaintiff’s class certification motion due to a vacation that 16 defense counsel had scheduled for June; 17 WHEREAS, after meeting and conferring, the Parties agreed that Defendant’s deadline to 18 oppose Plaintiff’s class certification motion would be extended by two weeks and that Plaintiff’s 19 deadline to file his reply in support of class certification would also be extended by two weeks. 20 21 22 23 24 WHEREAS, no previous extensions of time have been sought by the Parties as to the briefing schedule for class certification. NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned counsel for the Parties, having met and conferred and good cause appearing, stipulate and agree as follows: 1. Defendant’s opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion for Class Certification will be due on or 25 before July 15, 2019, along with any declarations or reports from experts in support 26 of same. 27 28 2. Plaintiff’s reply in support of his Motion for Class Certification will be due on or before August 30, 2019. 2 STIPULATION TO EXTEND BRIEFING SCHEDULE 2:18-cv-00360-MCE-EFB 1 Dated: June 7, 2019 Respectfully submitted, 2 KERSHAW, COOK & TALLEY PC 3 5 By: /s/ Stuart C. Talley STUART C. TALLEY WILLIAM A. KERSHAW IAN J. BARLOW 6 Attorneys for Plaintiff and the putative Class 4 7 Dated: June 7, 2019 DYKEMA GOSSETT LLP 8 By: /s/ Fred J. Fresard DOMMOND E. LONNIE JAMES P. FEENEY FRED J. FRESARD (pro hac vice) BRITTANY J. MOUZOURAKIS (pro hac vice) ABIRAMI GNANADESIGAN 9 10 11 12 Attorneys for Defendant FCA US LLC f/k/a/ Chrysler Group LLC 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ORDER IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: June 11, 2019 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3 STIPULATION TO EXTEND BRIEFING SCHEDULE 2:18-cv-00360-MCE-EFB

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