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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Fraud

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STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME FOR 

DEFENDANT TO RESPOND TO 

COMPLAINT AND PROPOSED ORDER

Layne H. Melzer (State Bar No. 132292) 

lmelzer@rutan.com 

Proud Usahacharoenporn (State Bar No. 278204) 

pusaha@rutan.com 

RUTAN & TUCKER, LLP 

611 Anton Boulevard, Suite 1400 

Costa Mesa, California 92626-1931 

Telephone: 714-641-5100 

Facsimile: 714-546-9035 

Joshua A. Glikin (admitted pro hac vice) 

glikin@bowie-jensen.com 

BOWIE & JENSEN LLC 

29 W. Susquehanna Ave., Suite 600 

Towson, Maryland 21204 

Telephone: 410-583-2400 

Facsimile: 410-583-2437 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SAFEWAY INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

REBEKAH PREWITT AND LAUREN 

BARRY, individually and on behalf of all 

others similarly situated, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

SAFEWAY INC., a California Corporation 

and DOES 1 through 50, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 16-CV-02753-MMC 

HONORABLE MAXINE M. CHESNEY 

COURTROOM 7 

STIPULATION REQUESTING AN 

ORDER EXTENDING TIME FOR 

DEFENDANT TO ANSWER OR 

OTHERWISE RESPOND TO 

COMPLAINT; DECLARATION OF 

JOSHUA GLIKIN; AND PROPOSED 

ORDER THEREON

Action Filed: April 13, 2016 

Date of Removal: May 20, 2016 

Rutan & Tucker, LLP 

attorneys at law 

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STIPULATION REQUESTING AN ORDER EXTENDING TIME 

Pursuant to Civil Local Rules 6-2 and 7-12, Plaintiffs Rebekah Prewitt and Lauren 

Barry (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendant Safeway, Inc. (“Safeway” or “Defendant”) hereby file a 

stipulation requesting an Order changing and extending the time within which Safeway must 

answer or otherwise respond to Plaintiffs’ complaint. Safeway’s answer or response is 

presently due on June 27, 2016.1

 The parties have conferred and Plaintiffs have agreed to 

an extension of time to August 1, 2016; provided, however, that this Stipulation shall not in 

any way operate as consent by the Plaintiffs to jurisdiction of the United States District 

Court, Northern District of California, and that Plaintiffs continue to assert that there is no 

original jurisdiction over this matter, which will be addressed at the hearing on Plaintiffs’ 

Motion to Remand scheduled for July 22, 2016. 

For the reasons set forth in the accompanying Declaration of Joshua Glikin in Support 

of Stipulation Requesting an Order Extending Time, the parties respectfully request that this 

Court enter an order extending the time for Safeway to answer or respond to Plaintiffs’ 

complaint to August 1, 2016. A proposed order is attached. 

Dated: June 23, 2016 RUTAN & TUCKER, LLP 

 PROUD USAHACHAROENPORN 

By: /s/ Proud Usahacharoenporn

Proud Usahacharoenporn 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SAFEWAY INC. 

Dated: June 23, 2016 THE WAND LAW FIRM 

By: /s/ Aubry Wand

Aubry Wand 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs REBEKAH 

PREWITT and LAUREN BARRY 

 

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 The deadline is June 26, 2016, which falls on a Sunday. The next business day is Monday, 

June 27. Rutan & Tucker, LLP 

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DECLARATION OF JOSHUA GLIKIN IN SUPPORT OF STIPULATION 

REQUESTING AN ORDER EXTENDING TIME 

1. I am counsel of record for Defendant in this Action. The statements made 

herein are based on my personal knowledge and on information made available to me in 

the course of my duties as counsel for Defendant. 

2. I conferred with counsel for the Plaintiffs to request an extension of time for 

Defendant to answer or otherwise respond to Plaintiffs’ Complaint in the above-captioned 

Action, and Plaintiffs’ counsel kindly consented to the request, from June 27, 2016 to 

August 1, 2016. 

3. This is the second request for an extension of time to answer or otherwise 

respond to the Complaint that Defendant has requested in this action. The first was by 

stipulation filed on May 25, 2016. [Dkt. No. 6.] 

4. The reason for the requested enlargement of time is to permit the Court to 

rule on Plaintiffs’ Motion to Remand prior to the deadline for Defendant to respond to the 

Complaint. The Motion to Remand will be fully-briefed following Defendant’s 

submission of its sur-reply on June 30, 2016, as the Court directed pursuant to its Order 

Affording Defendant Opportunity to File Sur-Reply Re: Motion to Remand; Continuing 

Hearing on Motion to Remand. [Dkt. No. 26.] A hearing on the Motion to Remand is 

scheduled for July 22, 2016. [Id.] The Court’s hearing on the Defendant’s Motion to Stay 

Proceedings Pending Transfer of MDL No. 2705 [Dkt. No. 23], also is scheduled for July 

22, 2016. 

5. Thus, the requested extension would move Defendant’s deadline to respond 

to the Complaint to a little more than one week following the hearing on these two critical 

motions, which may affect Defendant’s obligation to respond to the Complaint. 

6. Defendant respectfully submits that it would be in the interests of justice and 

efficiency for the Court to determine the jurisdictional issues raised by Plaintiff’s Motion 

to Remand and Defendant’s Motion to Stay prior to requiring Defendant to file a 

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substantive response to the Plaintiffs’ Complaint that was recently removed from the 

Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. 

7. The requested extension of time would not have an adverse effect on the 

schedule for this case. The initial Case Management Conference for this Action is 

presently set for August 26, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. [Dkt. No. 15], which is nearly four weeks 

after the requested date for the filing of Safeway’s answer or response to Plaintiffs’ 

Complaint. 

 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America 

that the foregoing is true and correct. 

 Executed on July 23, 2016 at Towson, Maryland. 

/s/ Joshua A. Glikin

Joshua A. Glikin 

 

Rutan & Tucker, LLP 

attorneys at law 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

Pursuant to Civil Local Rules 6-2 and 7-12, Plaintiffs Rebekah Prewitt and 

Lauren Barry (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendant Safeway, Inc. (“Safeway” or “Defendant”) 

filed a stipulation requesting an order changing and extending the time within which 

Safeway must answer or otherwise respond to Plaintiffs’ Complaint. Safeway’s 

answer or response is presently due on June 26, 2016. The parties have conferred and 

have agreed to an extension of time to August 1, 2016. 

For the reasons set forth in the Declaration of Joshua Glikin In Support of 

Stipulation Requesting an Order Extending Time accompanying the parties’ 

stipulation, the Court finds good cause to extend the deadline for Safeway to answer 

or respond to Plaintiffs’ complaint to August 1, 2016. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ______________ ______________________________________ 

 HONORABLE MAXINE M. CHESNEY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

Rutan & Tucker, LLP 

attorneys at law 

June 24, 2016

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