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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Account Receivable

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ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION AND JOINT REQUEST TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LIONEL HARPER, DANIEL SINCLAIR, 

HASSAN TURNER, LUIS VAZQUEZ, 

and PEDRO ABASCAL, individually and 

on behalf of all others similarly situated 

and all aggrieved employees,

Plaintiffs,

v. 

CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, 

Defendant.

Case No. 2:19-cv-00902-WBS-DMC

Hon. William B. Shubb 

ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION AND 

JOINT REQUEST TO MODIFY 

SCHEDULING ORDER 

Having read and considered the Stipulation and Joint Request to Modify Scheduling Order 

(“Stipulation”) submitted by Plaintiffs Lionel Harper, Daniel Sinclair, Hassan Turner, Luis 

Vazquez, and Pedro Abascal (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendant Charter Communications, LLC 

(“Charter”) (collectively, the Parties), the Court finds GOOD CAUSE to modify the Status 

(Pretrial Scheduling) Order, Dkts. 34, 104, and 159, and hereby GRANTS the Stipulation as 

follows:

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ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION AND JOINT REQUEST TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER

WHEREAS, on October 9, 2019, the Court issued an initial scheduling order (Dkt. 34 

(“Scheduling Order”)).

WHEREAS, subsequently, the Court approved several stipulations and joint requests and

modified the dates and deadlines in the Scheduling Order (Dkts. 52, 60, 70, 83, 92, 104, and 159).

WHEREAS, on October 13, 2021, the Court entered the orders: (1) granting Charter’s 

Motions to Compel Arbitration of the individual claims of Plaintiffs Harper, Turner, Vazquez, 

and Abascal (Dkt. 202); (2) staying Counts One through Nine of the Second Amended Complaint

pending the arbitration of the individual claims of Plaintiffs Harper, Turner, Vazquez, and 

Abascal (Dkt. 202); (3) denying Plaintiffs’ Motion for Leave to file a Third Amended Complaint 

(Dkt. 201); (4) denying Charter’s Motion to Dismiss Count Five of the Second Amended 

Complaint in part and Count Nine of Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint in its entirety

without prejudice to the motion being renewed in the event the stay ordered in Dkt. 202 is lifted

(Dkt. 203); (5) granting Charter’s Motion to Dismiss Count Ten of Plaintiffs’ Second Amended 

Complaint, insofar as it is based on alleged violations of Labor Code Sections 226 and 1174(d) 

that occurred prior to July 11, 2017 (Dkt. 203); and (6) denying Charter’s Motion to Dismiss 

Count Ten of Plaintiffs’ Second Amended Complaint in all other respects (Dkt. 203).

WHEREAS, Charter’s Motion for Reconsideration or, in the Alternative, Motion to 

Certify for Interlocutory Appeal Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) and Plaintiff Sinclair’s Motion 

to Lift Stay of his Claims are both pending and scheduled to heard on November 29, 2021;

WHEREAS, the Parties have met and conferred and agree that the forgoing Orders have 

significantly changed the current scope of this case such that the current schedule should be 

modified; 

WHEREAS, based on the rulings above, the PAGA claim in this matter will proceed, 

which triggers Charter’s obligation to provide significant amounts of data, documents, and ESI 

for a 10% sample of the PAGA aggrieved employees, which Charter represents is a major 

undertaking that will put a tremendous strain on its internal resources such that it will not be able 

to complete this production by the current November 19, 2021 deadline; 

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ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION AND JOINT REQUEST TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER

WHEREAS, given the burden of production required under the current Scheduling Order, 

the Parties request an additional 60 days, through and until January 18, 2021, to complete the 

production, with Charter to provide the data for the 10% sample on a rolling basis as soon as it 

becomes available; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have met and conferred and agree that, for judicial economy, and 

good cause showing, the Court should approve this Stipulation in its entirety and modify the 

Scheduling Order in this action as shown in the table below.

Based on the foregoing, the Court ORDERS as follows:

1. The current Scheduling Order (Dkt. 159) is hereby modified as follows:

Event Current date/deadline Modified date/deadline

Deadline for Charter to complete its 

production of additional sampling 

documents/ESI pursuant to Dkts. 112 

and 133 for purposes of Plaintiff 

Harper’s PAGA claim

Earlier of November 

19, 2021 or 30 days 

from Court’s order on 

Plaintiffs’ Renewed 

Motion for Class 

Certification

January 14, 2022

Deadline to disclose expert witnesses December 20, 2021 February 25, 2022

Deadline to disclose rebuttal expert 

witnesses

January 17, 2022 March 18, 2022

Discovery cut-off January 31, 2022 April 1, 2022

Motions cut-off (for filing) February 28, 2022 April 25, 2022

Deadline to file opposition briefs March 28, 2022 May 23, 2022

Deadline to file reply briefs April 11, 2022 June 3, 2022

Hearing on all motions April 18, 2022 at June 13, 2022 at 1:30pm

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ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION AND JOINT REQUEST TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER

1:30pm

Final Pretrial Conference June 20, 2022 at 

1:30pm

August 15, 2022 at 1:30pm

Jury Trial August 9, 2022 at 

9:00am

October 4, 2022 at 9:00am

All other orders set forth in the Scheduling Order remain unchanged. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 15, 2021

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