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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Fair Labor Standards

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California 

** E-filed April 13, 2010 ** 

NOT FOR CITATION 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

TEH MING CHEN, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

ATEN NEW JERSEY, INC., et al., 

 Defendants. 

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No. C09-03969 HRL 

ORDER (1) DISMISSING UNSERVED 

DEFENDANT, (2) REFERRING 

PARTIES TO MEDIATION, AND (3) 

SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT 

SCHEDULING DATES 

The order that follows is based on the discussion at the April 13, 2010 Case Management 

Conference and the previously filed Joint Case Management Statement. 

A. Unserved Defendant Longdi Lin 

Plaintiff filed suit in August 2009 against ATEN New Jersey, Inc.; ATEN International Co. 

Ltd.; and individual defendant Longdi Lin. Plaintiff now informs the court that he still has not 

served defendant Lin and does not know when or how he might serve Lin. As plaintiff has missed 

the deadline for serving Lin by more than one hundred days, the court DISMISSES defendant 

Longdi Lin from this case without prejudice pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m). 

B. Referral to Mediation 

The parties have agreed to court-appointed mediation for purposes of Alternative Dispute 

Resolution. The deadline for the parties’ mediation session is ninety (90) days from this order. 

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C. Case Management Schedule 

The court adopts the parties’ statement of disputed factual and legal issues as set forth in the 

Joint Case Management Statement. The presumptive limits on discovery set forth in the Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure shall apply. 

The parties indicate that they have not yet completed their initial disclosures. The parties 

shall complete their initial disclosures by May 4, 2010. 

If the case does not settle through the ADR process, the parties shall contact the chambers of 

Magistrate Judge Trumbull well in advance of the Pretrial Conference to arrange a Settlement 

Conference to take place just prior to the Pretrial Conference. 

The following schedule shall apply to this case: 

Fact Discovery Cutoff September 14, 2010 

Designation of Experts with Reports September 28, 2010 

Designation of Rebuttal Experts with Reports October 12, 2010 

Expert Discovery Cutoff October 26, 2010 

Last Day for Hearings on Dispositive Motions December 14, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. 

Final Pretrial Conference February 1, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. 

Jury Trial February 8, 2011 

Any motions to compel fact discovery must be filed no later than seven days after the Fact 

Discovery Cutoff, and any motions to compel expert discovery must be filed no later than seven 

days after the Expert Discovery Cutoff. See N.D. Cal. Civ. R. 26-2. 

Furthermore, the parties shall comply with the court’s “Standing Order re: Pretrial 

Preparation” with respect to the timing and content of the Joint Pretrial Statement and other pretrial 

submissions.1

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: April 13, 2010 

HOWARD R. LLOYD 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 

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 Parties may obtain copies of all of Judge Lloyd's standing orders from the clerk of the court, or 

from Judge Lloyd’s page on the court’s website (www.cand.uscourts.gov). 

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For the Northern District of California 

C 09-03969 Notice will be electronically mailed to: 

Bruce Doelker May bmay@sycr.com 

Ismael D. Perez easy@perezlawoffice.com 

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel who have not 

registered for e-filing under the court’s CM/ECF program. 

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