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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 15:78m(a) Securities Exchange Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

In re: JDS UNIPHASE CORPORATION

SECURITIES LITIGATION

 

This document relates to ALL ACTIONS

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No. C-02-1486 CW (EDL)

ORDER FOLLOWING MAY 10, 2006

DISCOVERY CONFERENCE

On May 10, 2006, the Court held a discovery conference in this case. For the reasons stated

at the hearing, the Court issues the following Order:

1. As proposed by Defendants JDSU, it shall produce to Lead Plaintiff Flash reports, Opcom

reports and spreadsheets, graphs and charts contained in Board presentations in native format

no later than June 9, 2006. Lead Plaintiff shall identify to Defendants JDSU specific

additional spreadsheets, charts and graphs that it believes warrant production in native format

on a rolling basis. The parties shall meet and confer within ten days regarding Lead

Plaintiff’s requests, unless a holiday, court deadline, court appearance or deposition is

scheduled during those ten days, then Defendants JDSU shall respond within twenty days. If

Lead Plaintiff’s requests for specific additional documents results in an extraordinarily large

production, the parties should discuss cost-sharing. 

2. In the Court’s April 25, 2006 Order, the Court ordered Defendants JDSU to “provide

Plaintiffs a list identifying by location where kept in the ordinary course of business and, to

the extent possible, the size, date and content of the back up tapes that have not been

restored.” Apr. 25, 2006 Order at 3:1-3. The Court clarifies the Order as follows. 

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Defendants JDSU shall provide any existing inventories or lists of back up tapes identifying

the contents of the tapes or information, if any, contained on labels on the tapes. Defendants

JDSU shall also provide any existing inventory of tapes made at the time of the tapes’

preservation. Defendants JDSU shall also provide information sufficient to show the

maximum data capacity of the tapes. Defendants JDSU shall provide this information no

later than May 25, 2006. In addition, Defendants JDSU shall also provide Lead Plaintiff

with a list identifying at which JDSU site each witness named by Lead Plaintiff in its May 8,

2006 Supplement to the Joint Discovery Conference Statement was located. Defendants

JDSU shall comply with this paragraph no later than June 12, 2006. 

3. Defendants JDSU’s request for an extension of time until June 28, 2006 to complete its

search of tapes from the San Jose corporate office that may contain e-mail from Kevin

Kalkhoven and to produce all responsive, non-privileged documents to Lead Plaintiff at

Defendants JDSU’s expense is granted. No later than June 12, 2006, Defendants JDSU shall

indicate to Lead Plaintiff which of the witnesses listed in its May 8, 2006 Supplement to the

Joint Discovery Conference Statement are located on these tapes. No later than June 12,

2006, Defendants JDSU shall identify the type of tapes and maximum amount of data that

might be included on the back up tapes from the San Jose Corporate office. 

4. As proposed by Defendants JDSU, it shall search its active electronic data and produce all

responsive non-privileged e-mail from the accounts of the thirteen people out of the twentythree people listed by Lead Plaintiff on page 19, n. 13 of the May 3, 2006 Joint Discovery

Conference Statement in connection with the Redbook e-mail who were employed by JDSU

when this lawsuit was filed. Defendants JDSU shall comply with this order no later than

July 17, 2006.

5. Lead Plaintiff shall provide to Defendants JDSU, or confirm prior communications in which

the information has been provided, complete copies of all non-party subpoenas that Lead

Plaintiff has served to date, a complete and accurate list of those subpoenas and all copies of

documents received in response to the subpoenas. Lead Plaintiff shall comply with this

Order no later than May 18, 2006. 

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6. The parties shall meet and confer regarding deposition scheduling. Except in the most

extraordinary circumstances, the parties shall not schedule depositions on religious or

national holidays. The parties shall make good faith efforts to cluster depositions

geographically. 

7. Defendants JDSU shall search the documents that it has produced in this litigation for nonconfidential press releases, company-wide e-mails and SEC documents Defendants

previously designated as confidential, and shall de-designate those documents that are not

confidential. No later than June 7, 2006, Lead Plaintiff shall provide Defendants JDSU with

a list of other categories of documents that Lead Plaintiff believes Defendants JDSU has

incorrectly designated as confidential. No later than June 21, 2006, the parties shall meet and

confer regarding Lead Plaintiff’s proposed categories for de-designation. 

8. No later than May 16, 2006, Lead Plaintiff shall identify up to ten JDSU customers for which

it seeks confidentiality agreements, and Defendants JDSU shall produce those agreements no

later than May 31, 2006. 

9. The Court has already determined that Thomas Pitre has information relevant to this lawsuit. 

10. Defendants JDSU will bear the cost of providing the load files with metadata for the

documents already produced through Applied Discovery, and Lead Plaintiff will provide the

hard drives. 

11. The parties shall exchange proposed deposition schedules no later than June 28, 2006. Only

depositions that have already been planned to take place before June 28, 2006 may do so,

absent extraordinary circumstances. 

12. The parties shall meet and confer, if necessary, regarding Defendant Kalkhoven’s production

of trading history. 

13. As agreed by the parties, Lead Plaintiff shall provide a list regarding the documents,

including the form of the documents, that it preserved for this litigation.

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14. The pretrial and trial dates are revised as follows:

Fact discovery cutoff, except for depositions

and other discovery arising from new

information obtained at depositions

9/29/06

Cutoff date of additional period to complete

depositions and conduct any other discovery

arising from new information obtained at the

depositions

12/1/06

Disclosures of experts and expert reports 1/8/07

Disclosure of rebuttal experts and rebuttal

reports

2/5/07

Expert discovery cutoff date 3/19/07

Last day to file summary judgment motions 4/13/07

Oppositions to summary judgment due; Crossmotions for summary judgment due5/11/07

Reply briefs in support of summary judgment

due; Oppositions to Cross-motions due

5/25/07

Reply briefs in support of Cross-motions due 6/1/07

Summary judgment hearing date and further

case management conference

6/22/07

Pretrial conference 9/14/07

Trial 10/1/07

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 18, 2006 

ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE

United States Magistrate Judge

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