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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 29:201 Fair Labor Standards Act

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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

CATHERINE TREMBLAY,

Plaintiff, No. C-07-06009 EDL

v. ORDER SETTING BRIEFING

SCHEDULE FOR PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION TO CONDITIONALLY

CERTIFY THE COLLECTIVE ACTION

CHEVRON STATIONS, INC.,

Defendant.

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The Court has reviewed the parties’ briefs filed on February 28, 2008 and March 6, 2008

regarding a briefing schedule for Plaintiff’s Motion to Conditionally Certify the Collective Action. 

The burden, which is not heavy, is on Plaintiff to make a threshold showing to certify a collective

action under 29 U.S.C. § 216(b), (see Castle v. Wells Fargo Fin., Inc., 2008 WL 495705 (N.D. Cal.

Feb. 20, 2008)), and Plaintiff does not seek additional time to brief this motion. Plaintiff further

argues that potential class members will be prejudiced by the continued running of the statute of

limitations. Defendant argues that it needs time to conduct discovery to respond to Plaintiff’s

evidence in favor of conditional certification. However, Defendant does not bear the burden, and in

any event has considerable access to evidence involving its own employees. 

The Court is not persuaded that extra time is warranted to brief the motion to certify. See

Castle, 2008 WL 495705, *2, n. 3 (‘To resolve the instant motion, the Court need not resolve these

factual disputes, and indeed it would be inappropriate.”) (citing In re Coordinated Pretrial

Proceedings in Petroleum Prods. Antitrust Litig., 691 F.2d 1335, 1342 (9th Cir. 1982) (“Although in

determining whether to certify the class [under Rule 23(b)(3)], the district court is bound to take the

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substantive allegations of the complaint as true, [citations omitted], the court is also required to

consider the nature and range of proof necessary to establish those allegations.”)). Accordingly,

Plaintiff’s Motion to Conditionally Certify the Collective Action shall be briefed on a regular

schedule under Civil Local Rule 7-2. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 12, 2008

______________________________

ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE

United States Magistrate Judge

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