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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Fraud

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BLOOD HURST & O’REARDON, LLP

TIMOTHY G. BLOOD (149343)

THOMAS J. O’REARDON II (247952)

501 West Broadway, Suite 1490

San Diego, CA 92101

Tel: 619/338-1100

619/338-1101 (fax)

tblood@bholaw.com

toreardon@bholaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

VENABLE LLP

ANGEL A. GARGANTA (163957)

JESSICA L. GRANT (178138)

101 California Street, Suite 3800

San Francisco, CA 94111

Tel: 415/653-3750

415/653-3755 (fax)

aagarganta@venable.com

jgrant@venable.com

Attorneys for Defendant Premier Nutrition 

Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

VINCENT D. MULLINS, individually and 

on behalf of all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

PREMIER NUTRITION CORPORATION 

f/k/a JOINT JUICE, INC.,

Defendant.

[THIS DOCUMENT APPLIES TO

ALL RELATED ACTIONS EXCEPT 

BLAND]

Lead Case No. 3:13-cv-01271-RS

Related to: 

3:16-cv-06685-RS (Caiazzo-FL) 

3:16-cv-06703-RS (Lux-CT) 

3:16-cv-06704-RS (Ravinsky-PA) 

3:16-cv-06708-RS (Sandoval-NM) 

3:16-cv-06721-RS (Dent-IL) 

3:16-cv-07078-RS (Simmons-MI) 

3:16-cv-07090-RS (Spencer-MD) 

3:16-cv-06980-RS (Fishon-NY)

3:16-cv-07097-RS (Taylor-NJ) 

3:17-cv-00054-RS (Schupp-MA) 

3:19-cv-00875-RS (Bland-CA) 

JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER 

CONTINUING DEADLINES 

CLASS ACTION

District Judge: Hon. Richard Seeborg

Courtroom: 3, 17th Floor, SF

Magistrate Judge: Donna M. Ryu

Courtroom: 4, 3rd Floor, Oakland

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Pursuant to Local Rules 6-1 and 6-2, the parties in the above-captioned Related 

Actions enter into this stipulation and agreement, subject to the Court’s approval, to continue 

the fact discovery cutoff and motion hearing date. Pursuant to Local Rule 6-2(a), declarations 

of Angel Garganta and Thomas O’Reardon are concurrently submitted in support of this 

request.

WHEREAS, on September 20, 2018, the Court held a Case Management Conference in 

these ten Related Actions during which it lifted the discovery stay, set a fact discovery cutoff 

of March 20, 2019, and a motion hearing for May 9, 2019. See ECF No. 265 in Mullins v. 

Premier Nutrition Corporation.

WHEREAS, the Parties have been diligent in pursuing discovery since the discovery 

stay was lifted. Plaintiffs’ previously propounded document requests and interrogatories were 

deemed served as of the Case Management Conference, and on October 22, 2018, Premier 

provided responses and objections to Plaintiffs’ first sets of document requests and 

interrogatories. Prior to Premier’s responses being served, the Parties held telephonic meet and 

confers regarding a discovery plan, including detailed negotiations about specific parameters 

for searching and producing responsive electronically stored information (“ESI”). On October 

11, 2018, the Parties submitted their Stipulation and Proposed Order re: ESI Protocol, which 

the Court entered on October 31, 2018. See, e.g., Caiazzo v. Premier, ECF Nos. 34, 39. 

Following submission of the ESI Protocol, the Parties continued their meet and confer efforts, 

and on or about October 17, 2018, the Parties reached agreement on custodial sources, noncustodial sources, and keywords for culling Premier’s ESI. See O’Reardon Decl., ¶ 4. 

Immediately following agreement on the ESI parameters as discussed above, Premier began 

collecting and processing the potentially responsive ESI. See Garganta Decl., ¶ 3. To date, in 

these Related Actions, Premier has produced approximately 4,054 documents, totaling 32,819

pages. This includes Premier’s first ESI production on January 17, 2019, which consisted of 

2,553 documents (21,221 pages), and a subsequent ESI production of 1,119 documents (3,827 

pages) on January 25, 2019. Plaintiffs are using an electronic discovery review database for 

these actions and have loaded these documents onto the database and are reviewing the ESI as 

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it is being produced by Premier. O’Reardon Decl., ¶ 5. Plaintiffs have also followed up with 

Premier concerning issues relating to certain of the documents produced and formatting issues, 

requiring Premier to re-produce numerous documents for Plaintiffs’ review. Id.

WHEREAS, Premier intends to produce thousands of additional documents, and will 

complete its ESI production within 30 days. See Garganta Decl., ¶ 3. Premier has dedicated

full-time contract attorneys to review its ESI, however, the production has taken longer than 

anticipated given the unexpected volume of the ESI it gathered, and the January departure of 

Premier’s primary attorney in charge of overseeing and managing the document production. 

Id.

WHEREAS, in addition to the ESI efforts, the Parties have engaged in additional 

discovery efforts. The Parties have conducted several meet and confer conferences about 

written discovery responses. In response, Premier provided supplemental responses to certain 

of Plaintiffs’ discovery requests, and the Parties are currently meeting and conferring over 

those supplemental responses. Plaintiffs have also served subpoenas for documents and 

testimony on seven retailers who sold Joint Juice. Plaintiffs also served a Fed. R. Civ. P. 

30(b)(6) deposition notice on Premier, and the Parties anticipate Premier will designate one or 

more corporate representatives to testify, but Premier states that it will not know its designees 

until its document production is completed. Plaintiffs have also informed Premier that they 

anticipate serving deposition notices on current and former Premier employees and will notify 

Premier of the specific witnesses once Premier’s ESI production is completed and Plaintiffs 

can more fully evaluate those who should be deposed. In addition, the Parties are coordinating 

dates for depositions of the named plaintiffs in the Related Actions. The Parties have 

scheduled the depositions of three of those named plaintiffs, which will take place April 3-5 in 

San Francisco. Given certain scheduling conflicts with Premier’s counsel, the remaining 

Plaintiffs will likely be deposed in late April or May. The Parties are actively working together 

to coordinate these depositions.

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WHEREAS, under the current schedule, the deadline for completing fact discovery is 

March 20, 2019, and Plaintiffs’ motions for class certification are due April 4, 2019. As 

detailed above and in the attached declarations, the Parties have diligently pursued several

different types and sources of discovery, but because of the unexpected volume of documents 

to be collected, reviewed and produced to Plaintiffs, and the subsequent depositions to be 

taken, the Parties need more time to complete fact discovery before Plaintiffs file the motions

for class certification. One task that needs to be completed are the Rule 30(b)(6) depositions 

described above. See O’Reardon Decl., Ex. A (the Rule 30(b)(6) deposition notice). To have a 

fair opportunity to meaningfully depose Premier witnesses, Plaintiffs must first receive and 

analyze Premier’s ESI. Here, Premier anticipates producing additional ESI that is responsive 

to Plaintiffs’ discovery requests and will relate to the topics noticed for deposition. Thus, 

Plaintiffs reasonably need thirty days (or more) from when Premier completes its production in 

order to analyze the documents before deposing Premier’s multiple corporate designees.

Plaintiffs also anticipate the need to depose fact witnesses and document custodians before the 

fact discovery cutoff, but do not yet know who those deponents will be because the document 

production and review is not complete. Additionally, Premier desires to depose the named 

Plaintiffs before the discovery cutoff and before the class certification motions are filed. 

However, given counsel’s scheduling conflicts, these depositions will not reasonably be 

completed until May.

WHEREAS, the Parties believe there is good cause for the requested extension because 

they believe that without the extension they will be prejudiced in their ability to present 

motions for class certification and otherwise obtain factual evidence needed for trial.

ACCORDINGLY IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, subject to the 

approval of the Court, that:

1. The fact discovery cutoff is continued to July 31, 2019.

2. The motion hearing is continued to September 26, 2019 at 1:30 PM or as soon

thereafter as the Court’s schedule permits.

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NOW, THEREFORE, this Agreement is entered into by and among the Parties, by and 

through their respective counsel and representatives.

Dated: March 12, 2019 BLOOD HURST & O’REARDON, LLP

TIMOTHY G. BLOOD (149343)

THOMAS J. O’REARDON II (247952)

By: s/ Thomas J. O’Reardon

THOMAS J. O’REARDON II

501 West Broadway, Suite 1490

San Diego, California 92101

Tel: 619/338-1100

619/338-1101 (fax)

tblood@bholaw.com

toreardon@bholaw.com

ALTAIR LAW

CRAIG M. PETERS (1840180)

465 California Street, 5th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104-3313

Tel: 415/988-9828

cpeters@altairlaw.us

CARLSON LYNCH SWEET KILPELA

 & CARPENTER, LLP

TODD D. CARPENTER (234464)

1350 Columbia Street, Suite 603

San Diego, CA 92101

Tel: 619/762-1910

619/756-6991 (fax)

tcarpenter@carlsonlynch.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

Dated: March 12, 2019 VENABLE LLP

ANGEL A. GARGANTA (163957)

JESSICA L. GRANT (178138)

By: s/ Angel A. Garganta

ANGEL A. GARGANTA

101 California Street, Suite 3800

San Francisco, CA 94111

Tel: 415/653-3750

415/653-3755 (fax)

aagarganta@venable.com

jgrant@venable.com

VENABLE LLP

JOHN CARLOS VAZQUEZ (pro hac vice)

1270 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Tel: 212/370-6293

jcvazquez@venable.com

Attorneys for Defendant

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ECF CERTIFICATION

The filing attorney attests that he has obtained concurrence regarding the filing of this 

document from the signatories to this document.

Dated: March 12, 2019 BLOOD HURST & O’REARDON, LLP

By: s/ Thomas J. O’Reardon

THOMAS J. O’REARDON II

ORDER 

Having reviewed the above Joint Stipulation and Proposed Order Continuing 

Deadlines, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Court finds that good cause exists for the entry 

of this Order. The fact discovery cutoff is continued to July 31, 2019. The motion hearing is 

continued to _____________________, 2019 at ___________. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED:_______________________

THE HONORABLE RICHARD SEEBORG

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

September 26 1:30 PM

3/13/19

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