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Nature of Suit Code: 720
Nature of Suit: Labor Management Relations Act
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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AMENDED STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE CASE MANAGEMENT; CASE NO. C-04-01026 

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Crutcher LLP 

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP 

SCOTT A. FINK, SBN 083408 

AUSTIN V. SCHWING, SBN 211696 

REBECCA JUSTICE LAZARUS, SBN 227330 

One Montgomery Street 

Suite 3100 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 393-8200 

Facsimile: (415) 986-5309 

[Additional counsel listed on signature page] 

Attorneys for Defendant and Cross Complainant 

LEVI STRAUSS & CO. and Defendant LAURA 

LIANG 

POPELKA ALLARD, A P.C. 

JOSEPH H. AINLEY, SBN 141230 

160 W. Santa Clara Street, 12th Floor 

San Jose, California 95113-1733 

Telephone: (408) 298-6611 

Facsimile: (408) 285-0814 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Cross Defendants 

ROBERT SCHMIDT and THOMAS WALSH 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ROBERT SCHMIDT and THOMAS WALSH, 

Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

LEVI STRAUSS & CO., LAURA LIANG, and 

DOES 1-50, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. C-04-01026 (RMW) 

AMENDED STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING CASE 

SCHEDULE 

Judge: Hon. Ronald M. Whyte 

AND RELATED COUNTER-ACTION 

Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f) and United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California Local Rule 16-9, Defendant and Cross Complainant Levi Strauss & 

Co., Defendant Laura Liang (collectively, "Defendants") filed a Case Management Conference 

Statement and Proposed Order for a Case Management Conference on July 13, 2007. After meeting 

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and conferring, the parties stipulated and agreed to the case schedule below and filed a stipulation and 

proposed order at the direction of the Court Clerk to the Honorable Ronald M. White. Unfortunately, 

there was a typographical error in one of the dates in that stipulation and proposed order. 

Accordingly, the parties file this amended stipulation and proposed order to correct the error. 

Present time through September 

28, 2007 

Completion of depositions of factual discovery, subject to 

terms of Order of December 7, 2006. 

November 2, 2007 Motions for summary judgment due. 

November 12, 2007 Cut-off for filing factual discovery-related motions. 

November 12, 2007 Expert reports due. 

November 30, 2007 Opposition to motions for summary judgment. 

December 21, 2007 Expert discovery cut-off. 

December 21, 2007 Reply for summary judgment. 

January 11, 2008 Hearing on dispositive motions. 

February 18, 2008 File joint pretrial conference statement, voir dire 

questions*, motions in limine, proposed jury instructions*, 

proposed verdict form*. 

March 6, 2008 File oppositions to motions in limine, objections to voir 

dire*, objections to trial exhibits, objections to proposed 

jury instructions* and objections to verdict form*. 

March 13, 2008 Final pretrial conference. The parties will schedule a 

settlement conference with Magistrate Judge Howard R. 

Lloyd prior to the final pretrial conference. 

March 31, 2008 Trial. 

* If Court determines that trial shall be by jury. Defendants object to Plaintiffs' request for a 

jury trial with respect to their Sarbanes-Oxley claim. Defendants have filed a motion to strike the 

jury. The parties are currently waiting for a decision from this Court. 

DATED: July 18, 2007 

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP 

SCOTT A. FINK 

AUSTIN V. SCHWING 

REBECCA JUSTICE LAZARUS 

By:/s/ Scott A. Fink 

Scott A. Fink 

Attorneys for Defendant and Cross Complainant 

LEVI STRAUSS & CO. and Defendant LAURA 

LIANG 

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TRACY M. PRESTON, SBN 154393 

LEVI STRAUSS & CO. 

1155 Battery Street, 7th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 501-6000 

ROBERT J. VIZAS, SBN 56187 

ARNOLD & PORTER LLP 

90 New Montgomery 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: 415-356-3001 

Attorneys for Defendant and Cross Complainant 

LEVI STRAUSS & CO. 

POPELKA ALLARD, A P.C. 

JOSEPH H. AINLEY 

By: /s/ Joseph H. Ainley _

 Joseph H. Ainley 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Cross 

Defendants ROBERT SCHMIDT 

and THOMAS WALSH 

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated:_____________________ ______________________________________ 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

 RONALD M. WHYTE 

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