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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 09:1 U.S. Arbitration Act

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SQUIRE, SANDERS &

DEMPSEY L.L.P. 

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STIPULATION AND ORDER 

Case No. 2:06-CV-00611-FCD (GGH)

SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY L.L.P. 

Mark C. Dosker (CA Bar #114789) 

Michael W. Kelly (CA Bar #214038) 

Joseph A. Meckes (CA Bar # 190279) 

One Maritime Plaza, Third Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3492 

Telephone: +1.415.954.0200 

Facsimile: +1.415.393.9887 

Attorneys for Petitioner 

CINTAS CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CINTAS CORPORATION, a Washington 

Corporation, 

Petitioner, 

vs. 

RONALD ARVIZU et al., individuals, 

Respondents. 

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STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: 

(1) SERVICE OF PROCESS, AND 

(2) STAYING FURTHER PROCEEDINGS 

PENDING DECISION ON MOTION 

BEFORE THE JUDICIAL PANEL ON 

MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION TO 

TRANSFER AND CONSOLIDATE 

UNDER 28 U.S.C. §1407 

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WHEREAS, Cintas Corporation (“Cintas”) initiated this Petition proceeding in this Court 

by filing its Petition for Order Directing Arbitration to Proceed in the Manner Provided for in 

Written Agreement for Arbitration, in Accordance with the Terms of the Agreement, Pursuant to 

9 U.S.C. §4 (“this Petition proceeding”); 

WHEREAS, the Respondents in this Petition proceeding, whom the undersigned 

Respondents’ counsel hereby confirm they represent, are individuals who filed Consent-to-Sue 

forms pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. Section 216(b), in the action entitled 

Veliz et al. v. Cintas Corporation, Case No. C 03-1180 SBA (N.D. Cal.) (the “Veliz Litigation”); 

WHEREAS, Veliz Plaintiffs’ Counsel have filed with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict 

Litigation (“JPML”) the Veliz Plaintiffs’ Motion to Transfer and Consolidate Pursuant to 28 

U.S.C. §1407 (“MDL Motion”), which motion Cintas opposes; 

WHEREAS, the MDL Motion seeks to transfer and consolidate this proceeding with 69 

other Petition proceedings initiated by Cintas in other federal district courts, for pretrial 

proceedings before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; 

WHEREAS, each of the respective parties’ agreement to each and all of the matters herein 

is conditioned upon the Court’s approval, by entry of the Order stipulated to herein, of this entire 

Stipulation and Order as written; 

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto, by and through their respective undersigned 

counsel, hereby stipulate to an Order as follows: 

1. No part of this Stipulation and Order is effective unless the Court accepts every 

part of it as written, by entering the Order as set forth herein. 

2. Upon the effective date of this Stipulation and Order and delivery to one of 

Respondents’ undersigned counsel of all documents required to be served upon 

Respondents in connection with this Petition proceeding (which delivery may 

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occur either before or after the effective date of this Stipulation and Order), service 

of the Summons issued by this Court in connection with this Petition proceeding 

and service of the Petition and all other documents required to be served upon 

Respondents in this proceeding as of the date the undersigned counsel signed this 

Stipulation and Order are deemed complete by virtue of the acceptance by 

Respondents’ undersigned counsel of service on their behalf, pursuant to Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 4(e)(2), which acceptance is hereby acknowledged. Entry of the Order by 

the Court on this Stipulation and Order shall constitute the Proof of Service as to 

each Respondent as to whom Cintas has not already filed a Proof of Service. 

3. By no later than the effective date of this Stipulation and Order, Cintas will cease 

efforts to serve process directly upon Respondents in this Petition proceeding. 

4. From the effective date of this Stipulation and Order, this Petition proceeding shall 

be stayed, except as otherwise provided in this Stipulation and Order, until 30 days 

after the JPML issues its decision on the pending MDL Motion; provided, 

however, that if the MDL Motion is granted, nothing herein shall operate as any 

stay in any transferee Court to which this Petition proceeding may be transferred 

by order of the JPML. 

5. The stay issued pursuant to this Stipulation and Order does not apply to the filing 

and entry of any Request for Dismissal as to any Respondent, so that if a 

resolution of claims occurs as between Cintas and a Respondent, the entry of 

dismissal of such a Respondent from this Petition proceeding will not be stayed. 

6. This Stipulation and Order may be executed in separate counterparts by each of the 

parties hereto, and such executed counterparts may be exchanged by facsimile or 

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electronically, but all such counterparts taken together shall form but one and the 

same Stipulation and Order. 

7. The date that this Stipulation and Order shall become effective is the date the 

Order on it is entered by the Court and filed on the Court’s electronic filing 

system. 

Dated: May 17, 2006 SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY L.L.P. 

 

By: /s/ 

Joseph A. Meckes 

ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER 

CINTAS CORPORATION 

 

Dated: May 17, 2006 LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER 

RUDMAN AND ROBBINS LLP 

By: /s/ 

Steven W. Pepich 

ALTSHULER, BERZON, NUSSBAUM, 

RUBIN & DEMAIN 

By: /s/ 

Michael Rubin 

 

TRABER & VOOHEES 

By: /s/ 

Theresa M. Traber 

ATTORNEYS FOR RESPONDENTS 

 

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ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: May 19, 2006 /s/ Frank C. Damrell Jr. 

 United States District Judge 

 

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