Sanbrook v. Office Depot, Inc. et al

Filing 244

STIPULATION AND ORDER 243 to Amend Order Preliminary Approving Class Action Settlement. Signed by Judge Ronald M. Whyte on 4/15/10. (jg, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 4/15/2010)

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Barbara Quinn Smith (admitted pro hac vice) Maddox Hargett & Caruso, PC 9853 Johnnycake Ridge Road, Suite 302 Mentor, OH 44060 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [e-mail] Class Counsel Paul T. Hourihan (admitted pro hac vice) Beth A. Levene (admitted pro hac vice) Williams & Connolly LLP 725 Twelfth St., N.W. Washington, DC 20005 Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [e-mail] [e-mail] Counsel for Defendant (Additional Counsel Listed Below) UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA MARY SANBROOK, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, vs. Plaintiff, Case No: C 07-05938 RMW

*E-FILED - 4/15/10*

Judge: Hon. Ronald M. Whyte STIPULATED MOTION TO AMEND ORDER PRELIMINARILY APPROVING CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND ORDER

OFFICE DEPOT, INC., a corporation and DOES 1-20, Defendants.

The parties to this action hereby stipulate and move jointly to request an amendment to the Court's March 15, 2010, Order Preliminarily Approving Class Action Settlement ("Preliminary Approval Order"), in order to modify the period in which publication notice must occur. The reason an amendment is necessary is that Defendant Office Depot, Inc. ("Office Depot"), has learned from the third-party settlement administrator that the class notice to be published on two Sundays in Parade Magazine and USA Weekend can be published no earlier than April 18, 2010,

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and April 25, 2010, which dates are outside the thirty-day notice period set forth in the Class Action Settlement Agreement and the Preliminary Approval Order. Office Depot and Named Plaintiff agree that a reasonably short extension of the class notice period for publication notice is in the best interests of justice and will not prejudice the class in any way. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate and agree that Paragraph 10 of the Preliminary Approval Order should be amended, nunc pro tunc, to read: 10. Office Depot shall provide notice to the class in the form attached

hereto as Exhibits 1 and 2 and in accordance with the class notice procedures set forth in the Settlement Agreement. With respect to mailed notice, notice shall be sent to those potential class members for whom Office Depot has contact information within thirty days of the entry of this Order. With respect to publication notice, notice shall be published in Parade Magazine or USA Weekend, as distributed in California newspapers (a current list of which newspapers is attached to this Order as Exhibit 3), within forty-five days of the entry of this Order. DATED: March 22, 2010 Respectfully submitted, __/s/Beth A. Levene______ Paul T. Hourihan (admitted pro hac vice) Beth A. Levene (admitted pro hac vice) WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY LLP 725 Twelfth St. NW Washington, DC 20005 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: 202-434-5029 Robin J. Samuel (SBN 173090) Laura M. Wilson (SBN 246522) HOGAN & HARTSON LLP 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1400 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone] COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT

__/s/Barbara Quinn Smith___________ 18 Barbara Quinn Smith (Ohio Bar 0055328) (admitted pro hac vice) 19 MADDOX HARGETT & CARUSO, P.C. 20 9853 Johnnycake Ridge Road Suite 302 21 Mentor, OH 44060 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: 440-848-8175 23 Scott R, Kaufman, SBN 190129 24 CALIFORNIA LEMON LAWYERS 1400 Coleman Ave., Suite F-26 25 Santa Clara, CA 95050 26 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] 27 28

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1 Thomas A. Hargett (Indiana Bar 11252-49) (admitted pro hac vice) 2 Thomas K. Caldwell (Indiana Bar 16001-49 (admitted pro hac vice) 3 MADDOX HARGETT & CARUSO 4 10100 Lantern Road Suite 150 5 Fishers, IN 46038 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: 317-598-2050 7 Marnie Lambert (SBN 165019) 8 DAVID P. MEYER & ASSOCIATES, CO., LPA 9 1320 Dublin Road, Suite 100 10 Columbus, Ohio 43215 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Copies to: Daniel F. Katz, Esq. Paul T. Hourihan, Esq. Thomas A. Hargett, Esq. Barbara Quinn Smith, Esq. Marnie Lambert, Esq. Scott R. Kaufman, Esq. ____________________________ RONALD M. WHYTE United States District Judge 15 April PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED this ____ day of _________, 2010. CLASS COUNSEL

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that this document(s) filed through the ECF system will be sent electronically to the registered participants as identified on the Notice of Electronic Filing (NEF) and paper copies will be sent to those indicated as non registered participants on March 22, 2010. Dated: March 22, 2010 Respectfully submitted, /s/ Beth A. Levene____ Beth A. Levene

STIPULATED MOTION TO AMEND ORDER PRELIMINARILY APPROVING CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT 07-CV- 05938-RMW