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Nature of Suit Code: 480
Nature of Suit: Consumer Credit
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal

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PARTIES’ AMENDED STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

REGARDING NOTICE OF CLASS CERTIFICATION

Thomas A. Kearney, State Bar No. 90045

tak@kearneylittlefield.com

Prescott W. Littlefield, State Bar No. 259049

pwl@kearneylittlefield.com

KEARNEY LITTLEFIELD LLP

3436 N. Verdugo Rd., Ste 230

Glendale, CA 92108

Telephone (213) 473-1900 

Facsimile (213) 473-1919

Gene J. Stonebarger, State Bar No. 209461

gstonebarger@stonebargerlaw.com 

Richard D. Lambert, State Bar No. 251148 

rlambert@stonebargerlaw.com

STONEBARGER LAW 

A Professional Corporation 

75 Iron Point Circle, Suite 145 

Folsom, CA 95630

Telephone (916) 235-7140

Facsimile (916) 235-7141 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Mendez and the Class

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JAMIE MENDEZ, an individual, on behalf 

of herself and all others similarly situated

Plaintiff,

v.

C-TWO GROUP, INC.; MOBILESTORM, 

INC.; and DOES 1-50, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No.3:13-cv-05914-HSG

PARTIES’ AMENDED STIPULATION 

AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING 

NOTICE OF CLASS CERTIFICATION

Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam

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PARTIES’ AMENDED STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

REGARDING NOTICE OF CLASS CERTIFICATION

TO THE COURT, ALL PARTIES, AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD:

Pursuant to this Court’s Order Certifying Class (Docket No. 92), and the Court’s 

subsequent Order Denying Stipulation Regarding Proposed Class Notice Plan and Directing an 

Amended Stipulation [Docket No. 95], Plaintiff Jamie Mendez and Defendants C-Two Group, 

Inc., (“C-Two”) and C & L Associates, Inc. (“C&L” and together with C-Two “Defendants”), by 

and through their respective counsel of record, having met and conferred regarding the below 

proposals, jointly submit the following proposed class notice program that comports with the 

requirements of Rule 23(c):

WHEREAS, the parties have met and conferred and have agreed to the form of notice 

and notice procedure described as follows:

1. Exhibit A, attached hereto should be given to the Class as notice;

2. That notice should be given via email to the Class members, due to the fact that 

Defendants’ records have an email address for all Class Members; 

3. That Plaintiff shall bear the costs of notice;

4. That Phoenix Class Action Administration Solutions, 4590 MacArthur, Suite 500, 

Newport Beach, CA 92660 is hereby appointed as the Notice Administrator;

5. That the parties have agreed that the notice process shall be administered as 

follows:

a. Within ten (10) days of receiving notice of an Order pursuant to this 

Stipulation ordering that notice be provided, Defendants shall provide to the Notice

Administrator the last known contact information including all known email addresses in 

a manner acceptable to the Notice Administrator; 

b. The Parties shall jointly supplement last known contact information as, 

and/or if, it becomes available;

c. Thereafter, within fourteen (14) days of receiving the last known contact 

information for Class members from Defendants, the Notice Administrator shall deliver 

the notice attached hereto as Exhibit A to each class member via email to those Class 

members; 

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PARTIES’ AMENDED STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

REGARDING NOTICE OF CLASS CERTIFICATION

d. The subject line of the email should read “Mendez v. C-Two Group, Inc., 

USDC, Northern District of California, Case No. 13-cv-05914-HSG Class Action 

Notice”;

e. The deadline for post-marking requests for exclusion shall be inserted in 

the text of the notice and shall be 30 days after the date of the sending of the notices;

f. The requests for exclusions shall be addressed to the Notice Administrator 

at: Phoenix Class Action Administration Solutions, 4590 MacArthur, Suite 500, Newport 

Beach, CA 92660, and shall be made on the opt-out card supplied in the notice email;

g. The Notice Administrator shall provide a report to counsel for both 

Plaintiff and Defendants at the conclusion of the opt-out period reporting who opted-out;

h. Until further order of the Court or until expiration of three (3) years from 

the date of this Order, whichever occurs first, the Notice Administrator shall maintain the 

list of Class Members provided by Defendants and the information for those Class 

members who excluded themselves from the case, and make this information available to 

the Court and the Parties;

6. That a Class Member’s request for exclusion must be made on the opt-out card 

supplied in the notice email;

7. That requests for exclusion must be postmarked no later than 30 days from the 

date Notice was emailed;

8. That a Class member who does not request to be excluded within 30 days from 

the date Notice was emailed shall be continue to be a member of the Class in this case;

9. That, in the event that the email sent to the Class member’s email address 

“bounces back” to the Notice Administrator, the Notice Administrator is to conduct a “skip 

trace” to obtain the Class member’s last known physical address. The Notice Administrator is 

then to mail a hard copy of the Notice and opt-out form to each Class member whose email 

bounces back. The opt-out date for these individuals is to be filled in as 30 days from the date of 

the physical mailing of the Notices; 

/ / /

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PARTIES’ AMENDED STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

REGARDING NOTICE OF CLASS CERTIFICATION

10. That a Class Member’s request for exclusion must be made on the opt-out card 

supplied in the mailed notice;

11. That requests for exclusion must be postmarked no later than 30 days from the 

date notice was mailed; and

12. That a Class member who does not request to be excluded within 30 days from 

the date Notice was mailed shall be continue to be a member of the Class in this case.

Dated: January 14, 2016 KEARNEY LITTLEFIELD, LLP

 STONEBARGER LAW, APC

By: /s/ Richard D. Lambert

Richard D. Lambert

Attorneys for Plaintiff Jamie Mendez

Dated: January 14, 2016 WALSWORTH, FRANKLIN, BEVINS

 & McCALL, LLP

By: /s/ Laurie Sherwood

Laurie Sherwood

Attorneys for C-Two Group, Inc.

Dated: January 14, 2016 AKAWIE & LAPIETRA

By: /s/ Gregory Nerland

Gregory Nerland

Attorneys for C&L Associates, Inc. 

I, Prescott W. Littlefield, hereby attest that pursuant to LR 5-1(i) I have on file concurrence 

for any signatures indicated by a “conformed” signature (/s/) within this e-filed document. 

/s/ Prescott W. Littlefield

Prescott W. Littlefield

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PARTIES’ AMENDED STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

REGARDING NOTICE OF CLASS CERTIFICATION

[PROPOSED] ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:_________________ _________________________________

Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.

United States District Court Judge

Northern District of California

1/14/2016

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Exhibit A

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PLEASE DO NOT CALL OR WRITE TO THE COURT FOR INFORMATION OR ADVICE.

United States District Court, Northern District of California

If you received a text message from the Infusion 

Lounge between November 5, 2009 through October 

15, 2013, a class action lawsuit may affect your rights.

A Court authorized this notice. This is not a solicitation from a lawyer.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS

What is 

this?

The Court has certified this lawsuit as a class action. The lawsuit challenges 

the Infusion Lounge’s practice of sending text messages to its customers.

Do 

Nothing

Stay in the lawsuit. Await the outcome. Give up your ability to sue 

Defendants individually. If you do nothing and stay in the lawsuit, you may 

receive money or benefits that may come after trial or settlement. But, you 

give up any rights to sue Defendants separately concerning the same legal 

claims as this lawsuit.

Exclude 

Yourself

Get out of this lawsuit. Get no benefits from this lawsuit. Keep your right to 

sue Defendants separately. If you exclude yourself, you will no longer be 

part of this lawsuit. If money or benefits are later awarded, you will receive 

none. But, you keep any rights to sue Defendants separately concerning the 

same legal claims.

BASIC INFORMATION

1) What is this lawsuit about?

This lawsuit is about text messages sent 

by the Infusion Lounge to its customers 

who entered their contact information 

through the Infusion Lounge’s website and 

were sent a text message from SMS Short 

Code 99158 that referenced the Infusion 

Lounge. The Class Representative claims 

that the text messages violated the 

Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 

1991 (the “TCPA”). Based upon this claim, 

the Class Representative is asking for 

damages according to the TCPA. 

Defendants deny these allegations and 

contend no violation of the TCPA occured.

The Court has not decided whether the 

Class Representative or Defendants is 

correct. Lawyers must prove the claims 

against Defendants at trial.

2) Who is included in the Class?

The Class is defined in this case as: All 

individuals who entered their contact 

information online through Infusion 

Lounge’s website and were sent a text 

message from SMS Short Code 99158 

that referenced the Infusion Lounge from 

November 5, 2009 through October 15, 

2013.

YOUR RIGHTS AND OPTIONS

You have to decide whether to stay in the 

Class or ask to be excluded and you have 

to decide this now.

3) What happens if I do nothing?

You don’t have to do anything now if you 

want to keep the possibility of getting 

money or benefits from this lawsuit. By 

doing nothing, you are staying in the 

Class. If you stay in and the Class is 

awarded money or benefits, either as a 

result of a judgment or settlement, you will 

be notified about how to apply for a share. 

Keep in mind that if you do nothing now, 

regardless of whether the Class 

Representative wins or loses, you will not 

be able to separately sue, or continue to 

sue Defendants about the same legal 

claims that are the subject of this lawsuit. 

You will also be legally bound by all of the 

Orders the Court issues and judgments the 

Court makes in this class action.

4) Why would I exclude myself?

If you exclude yourself from the Class –

which is sometimes called “opting-out” of 

the Class – you won’t get any money or 

benefits from this lawsuit. However, you 

may then be able to separately sue or

continue to sue Defendants for the legal

claims that are the subject of this lawsuit. If 

you exclude yourself, you will not be 

legally bound by the Court’s judgments in 

this class action. If you start your own 

lawsuit against Defendants after you 

exclude yourself, you’ll have to hire and 

pay your own lawyer for that lawsuit, and 

you’ll have to prove your claims. If you do 

exclude yourself so you can start or 

continue your own lawsuit against 

Defendants, you should talk to your own 

lawyer soon, because your claims may be 

subject to a statute of limitations.

5) How do I exclude myself?

To exclude yourself from the Class, you 

must notify the Claims Administrator at the

address identified below in writing no later 

than [OPT-OUT DATE].

Your request for exclusion must be on the 

form included herewith, which requests: (1) 

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your full name; (2) current address; and (3) 

your signature. Requests for exclusion 

must be postmarked no later than [OPTOUT DATE] and sent to:

Phoenix Class Action Administration Solutions

4590 MacArthur, Suite 500

Newport Beach, CA 92660

Do not send requests to opt-out to the 

Court.

6) Do I have a lawyer in this case?

The Court decided that the law firms of 

Kearney Littlefield LLP and Stonebarger 

Law APC are qualified to represent you 

and all Class Members. These law firms

are experienced in handling class actions. 

More information about Class Counsel is 

available at: www.kearneylittlfield.com and 

www.stonebargerlaw.com.

7) Should I get my own lawyer?

If you want to remain a member of the 

Class, but you do not wish to be 

represented by the appointed Class 

counsel, you may enter an appearance 

through your own attorney at your own 

expense. To do so, you must file an Entry 

of Appearance with the Clerk of the Court. 

You will remain a Class Member with 

representation by your own attorney and 

you will be responsible for the fees and 

costs of your attorney.

8) How will the lawyers be paid?

If Class Counsel get money or benefits for 

the Class, they may ask the Court for fees 

and expenses. You won’t have to pay 

these fees and expenses. If the Court 

grants Class counsel’s request, the fees

and expenses would be either deducted 

from any money obtained for the Class or 

paid separately by Defendants.

9) How and when will the Court decide 

who is right?

As long as the case isn’t resolved by a 

settlement, the parties will have to seek a 

judgment at trial or by summary judgment 

motion. Any proceeding will be in the 

United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California. As of the 

date of this notice, the Court has not yet 

set a trial date. If you want to attend any 

hearing, please call Class Counsel to 

confirm the date, department, and time.

10) Do I have to come to the trial?

You do not need to attend the trial. Class 

counsel will present the case for the Class 

Members, and Defendants will present the 

defenses. You are welcome to come at 

your own expense. If you wish to

participate in the trial, you should contact 

Class Counsel.

11) Will I get money after the trial?

If the Class obtains money or benefits as a 

result of a judgment or a settlement, you 

will be notified about how to participate. 

We do not know how long this will take.

12) Additional Information

Complete copies of the pleadings, orders 

and other documents filed in this litigation 

may be examined and downloaded at any 

time through the Federal Pacer System. 

For more information, please visit 

www.pacer.gov. This case is titled 

Mendez v. C-Two Group, Inc., et al., Case 

No. 13-cv-05914-HSG in the Northern 

District of California, which is located in the 

Ninth Circuit.

If you have any questions concerning any 

matter raised in this notice, or wish to 

provide us with your current name or 

address or write to Class counsel at:

KEARNEY LITTLEFIELD, LLC

Prescott Littlefield, Esq.

3436 N. Verdugo Rd., Suite 230 

Glendale, CA 91208

E-mail: pwl@kearneylittlefield.com

or

STONEBARGER LAW, APC

Richard D. Lambert, Esq.

75 Iron Point Circle, Suite 145

Folsom, CA 95630

E-mail: rlambert@stonebargerlaw.com

DATED: [MAILING DATE]

BY ORDER OF THE UNITED STATES 

DISTRICT COURT, NORTHERN 

DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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OPT-OUT FORM

Mendez v. C-Two Group, Inc., et al., Case No. 13-cv-05914-HSG

Name:

Address:

(First, Middle Initial) (Last)

(Street) (Apt. #)

(City) (State, Zip)

I wish to be excluded from the Class. (Signature)

To complete opt-out, please mail this form, no later than [OPT-OUT DATE] to:

Phoenix Class Action Administration Solutions

4590 MacArthur, Suite 500

Newport Beach, CA 92660

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