Maness v. Expedia, Inc. et al

Filing 6

Order by Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu granting 5 Stipulation.(dmrlc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/6/2012)

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1 2 3 4 David E. Bower (SBN 119546) FARUQI & FARUQI, LLP 10866 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1470 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Tel: (424) 256-2884 Fax: (424) 256-2885 dbower@faruqilaw.com 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Joseph T Lukens Richard D. Schwartz FARUQI & FARUQI, LLP 101 Greenwood Avenue Suite 600 Jenkintown, PA 19046 Tel: (215) 577-5770 Fax: (215) 577-5771 jlukens@faruqilaw.com rschwartz@faruqilaw.com Attorneys for Plaintiff 12 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 15 16 Brent Maness, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Civil Case 4:12-cv-05220-DMR CLASS ACTION Plaintiff, 17 STIPULATION 18 19 v. Expedia, Inc., et al., Defendants. 20 21 22 23 WHEREAS, Plaintiffs filed the Complaint in this litigation on October 9, 2012; 24 WHEREAS, all of the Defendants have agreed to waive service of the Complaint; 25 WHEREAS, a number of substantially similar complaints have been filed nationwide; 26 WHEREAS, a Motion for Consolidation and Transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 was filed 27 before the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (“JPML”) to coordinate and/or consolidate 28 all of the actions in one court; AMECURRENT 703612177.2 19-Oct-12 00:07 1 WHEREAS, the JPML has scheduled the MDL Motion for a hearing on November 29, 2 2012, and the parties expect that the JPML will issue a decision on the motion within a few 3 weeks after the hearing; 1 4 WHEREAS, Plaintiffs and Defendants Expedia, Inc., Hotels.com LP, Travelocity.com 5 LP, Sabre Holdings Corporation, Priceline.com Incorporated, Booking.com (USA), Inc., 6 Booking.com B.V., Orbitz Worldwide, Inc., Hilton Worldwide, Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts 7 Worldwide, Inc., Marriott International, Inc., Trump International Hotels Management, LLC, 8 Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, LLC, and InterContinental Hotels Group Resources, Inc. 9 (collectively “Defendants”) expect that all of the actions will be coordinated and/or consolidated 10 before one court; 11 12 WHEREAS, Plaintiffs and Defendants wish to preserve the parties’ and the Court’s resources and efficiently manage the litigation so as not to cause prejudice; 13 NOW THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows: 14 1. Defendants will not be required to answer or otherwise plead in response to the 15 Complaint during the pendency of the Motion for Consolidation and Transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 16 1407. If this Court is the transferee court, Defendants’ time to answer or otherwise plead will be 17 extended until 60 days after a consolidated amended complaint is filed, and Plaintiffs will file 18 their opposition to a motion to dismiss, if filed, within 60 days thereafter. In the event that the 19 Motion for Consolidation and Transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 is denied, the parties will confer 20 within seven (7) days of the JPML’s order regarding the due date for responsive pleadings in this 21 action. No discovery shall be served in the above-captioned matter while this stipulation is in 22 effect; 23 2. 24 25 26 27 28 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 stipulation will become void and in that event, all of the parties agree to negotiate in good faith 1 John G. Heyburn II, A View from the Panel: Part of the Solution, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 2225, 2242 n.88 (2007-08) (then-Chair of the JPML: “[u]sually within two weeks of oral argument, the Chair has finalized and approved each written opinion pertaining to that session”). 2 AMECURRENT 703612177.2 19-Oct-12 00:07 1 regarding a responsive pleading date. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 3. If this Court is the transferee court, Defendants agree that they will engage in a conference pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f) with Plaintiffs within 14 days of appointment of lead counsel for the Plaintiffs. If the Motion for Consolidation and Transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 is denied, Defendants agree that they will engage in a conference pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f) with Plaintiffs within 14 days of the denial of the motion. DATED: October 31, 2012 9 FOR PLAINTIFFS: FOR DEFENDANTS: By:/s/ David E. Bower David E. Bower (SBN 119546) FARUQI & FARUQI, LLP 10866 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1470 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Tel: (424) 256-2884 Fax:424) 256-2885 dbower@faruqilaw.com By: 10 11 12 13 14 Attorneys for Defendants Expedia, Inc. and Hotels.com LP 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 /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 Joseph T Lukens Richard D. Schwartz FARUQI & FARUQI, LLP 101 Greenwood Avenue Suite 600 Jenkintown, PA 19046 Tel: (215) 577-5770 Fax: (215) 577-5771 jlukens@faruqilaw.com rschwartz@faruqilaw.com By: Attorneys for Plaintiffs 22 23 /s/ George S. Cary George S. Cary (SBN 73858) Steven J. Kaiser CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON LLP 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 Attorneys for Defendants Travelocity.com LP and Sabre Holdings Corporation 24 25 26 27 28 3 AMECURRENT 703612177.2 19-Oct-12 00:07 1 By: 2 3 4 5 /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 Attorneys for Defendants Priceline.com Incorporated, Booking.com (USA), Inc., and Booking.com B.V. 6 7 8 By: 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 /s/ Christopher S. Yates Christopher S. Yates (SBN 161273) 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 Attorneys for Defendant Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. 17 By: 18 19 20 21 22 23 /s/ Steven A. Newborn Steven A. Newborn Carrie M. Anderson Daniel E. Antalics (SBN 276488) 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 24 Of Counsel: James C. Egan, Jr. 25 Attorneys for Defendant Hilton Worldwide, Inc. 26 27 28 4 AMECURRENT 703612177.2 19-Oct-12 00:07 1 By: 2 3 4 5 6 /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 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 7 8 9 10 11 Attorneys for Defendant Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. 12 13 By: 14 15 16 17 18 19 /s/ Jeffrey Kilduff Jeffrey Kilduff Ian Simmons Katrina M. Robson (SBN 229835) O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 1625 Eye Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20006 Telephone: (202) 383-5300 Facsimile: (202) 383-5414 Jkilduff@omm.com isimmons@omm.com krobson@omm.com Attorneys for Defendant Marriott International, Inc. 20 21 By: 22 23 24 25 26 /s/ Francis J. Burke, Jr. Francis J. Burke, Jr. (SBN 75970) 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 Attorney for Defendant Trump International Hotels Management, LLC 27 28 5 AMECURRENT 703612177.2 19-Oct-12 00:07 1 By: 2 3 4 5 6 Attorneys for Defendant Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, LLC By: /s/ Timothy T. Scott Timothy T. Scott (SBN 126971) Leo Spooner III (SBN 241541) 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 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 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 14 15 16 17 18 19 Attorneys for Defendant InterContinental Hotels Group Resources, Inc. 20 21 /s/ Marie L. Fiala Marie L. Fiala (SBN 79676) Ryan M. Sandrock (SBN 251781) SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 555 California Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: (415) 772-1200 Facsimile: (415) 772-7400 mfiala@sidley.com rsandrock@sidley.com PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 22 23 Dated: Nov. 6, 2012 THE HONORABLE DONNA M. RYU United States Magistrate Judge 24 25 26 27 28 6 AMECURRENT 703612177.2 19-Oct-12 00:07 1 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on November 1, 2012, I electronically filed the foregoing document 3 using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the e-mail addresses 4 registered in the CM/ECF system, as denoted on the Electronic Mail Notice List, and I hereby 5 certify that I have caused to be mailed a paper copy of the foregoing document via the United 6 States Postal Service to the non-CM/ECF participants indicated on the Manual Notice List 7 generated by the CM/ECF system. I also emailed this document to all parties who’s emails are 8 indicated on this Stipulation, above. 9 10 /s/ David E Bower David E. Bower 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 AMECURRENT 703612177.2 19-Oct-12 00:07 CAND-ECF- Page 1 of 1 Mailing Information for a Case 4:12-cv-05220-DMR Electronic Mail Notice List The following are those who are currently on the list to receive e-mail notices for this case. David Eldridge Bower dbower@faruqilaw.com,ecf@faruqilaw.com,mblackman@faruqilaw.com,ecfca@faruqilaw.com Manual Notice List The following is the list of attorneys who are not on the list to receive e-mail notices for this case (who therefore require manual noticing). You may wish to use your mouse to select and copy this list into your word processing program in order to create notices or labels for these recipients. (No manual recipients) https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/MailList.pl?50440733617755-L_1_0-1 11/1/2012

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