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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 05:704 Labor Litigation

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CLAUDIA MORENO, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

AUTOZONE, INC.,

Defendant.

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No. C-05-4432 MJJ (EMC)

ORDER RE COMPLIANCE WITH

COURT’S DIRECTIVE OF JUNE 14,

2006

On June 14, 2006, the Court heard the discovery dispute pending between the parties

regarding pre-certification discovery. At the hearing, the Court stated it would allow discovery

pertaining to two stores for a four-year period as a means for determining Plaintiff’s entitlement to

fuller class discovery. The parties were ordered to meet and confer and craft a production of

documents consistent with the Court’s directive.

The parties have returned to the Court to resolve disputes over of the sufficiency of

Defendant’s production of documents. Having considered the parties’ joint letter of August 14,

2006 and the argument of counsel at the further hearing on August 16 herein, the Court orders as

follows.

1. The parties shall meet and confer with knowledgeable IT experts on each side to

determine whether there is a digital, downloadable and searchable database for the time card and

payroll information sought by Plaintiffs. That meet and confer shall be completed within 10 days of

this order. If such database is available, it will be provided to the Plaintiffs who will undertake the

burden of conducting its own searches and formatting. If such database is available, Defendants’

production in pdf or similar “picture” format will not be adequate. Plaintiff will provide to

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Defendant the list of fields it wants included in the database; they are not required to explain

relevance or legal theories. If available, the documents shall be produced within 10 days following

the meet and confer.

2. A digital database for the security logs is maintained (as Defendant had it converted

to Word for production herein and can be converted into other formats at some expense). That

database will be made available to Plaintiffs who will bear the cost of downloading and converting it

into their desired format. As to data over two years old, Defendant shall convert it to the format

requested by Plaintiff, but Plaintiff shall compensate Defendant for up to 30 hours of labor (at actual

cost/wage rate of Defendant’s employee(s)) it will take to perform the production of such older data. 

The cost of such labor shall be verified by declaration. The production herein shall take place within

10 days of this order.

3. The break logs are kept in paper form at each store. Within 10 days, Defendant shall

produce to Plaintiffs a declaration stating that all such logs beyond a certain age (specify) have been

irretrievably destroyed. Defendants are ordered to preserve all existing documents and shall not

destroy any more such logs at any of the California stores until further ordered. Production of the

documents which do exist shall be stayed pending Judge Jenkins’ ruling on the motion for stay

currently under submission.

4. Defendant shall produce Ms. Medrano’s records for her employment in December

204 to January 2005 at store no. 2889. At this juncture, Defendants are not required to produce the

records of other employees at this store.

A status conference will be held on September 13, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. The parties shall file a

brief joint letter updating current status of discovery by September 6, 2006.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 16, 2006

_________________________ EDWARD M. CHEN

United States Magistrate Judge

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