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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Breach of Contract

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

FREE RANGE CONTENT, INC., et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

GOOGLE INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-02329-BLF 

ORDER RE JOINT SCHEDULING 

SUBMISSION

[Re: ECF 119]

The parties have submitted a joint scheduling submission with disputed dates for 

Defendant’s proposed International Class Motion, Plaintiff’s Motion for Class Certification, and 

Discovery and Summary Judgment. ECF 119.

With regard to the first two disputes, the Court’s heavily impacted schedule can 

accommodate neither a hearing in August 2016 as requested by Defendant for the International 

Class Motion nor a continued date for the Motion for Class Certification as requested by Plaintiff. 

Therefore, the Court does not set dates for the International Class Motion. Defendant may file 

such a motion and have it heard on the Court’s next available date. In addition, the Court finds that 

a joint scheduling submission is not the proper vehicle for Defendant’s request regarding the 

preclusive effect of arguments brought in its International Class Motion on arguments available 

for its Opposition to Class Certification. As a result, the Court does not address this improper 

request.

As for the Motion for Class Certification, the Court maintains the hearing date set in the 

Case Management Order, see ECF 115, and therefore adopts Defendant’s proposed dates.

Finally, the Court finds the later dates proposed by Plaintiff for discovery and summary 

judgment to be reasonable. However, the Court does not hear summary judgment and Daubert

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motions on the same day, and therefore sets the parties’ Daubert hearings for February 9, 2018. If 

the parties wish to set the dates for the Daubert briefing by Court order, they may submit a 

stipulated schedule and proposed order for those dates.

Accordingly, the Court SETS the following schedule:

Event Date

Deadline for Google’s Answer to TAC June 3, 2016

Motion for Class Certification October 6, 2016

Opposition to Motion for Class Certification November 17, 2016

Reply in Support of Class Certification December 22, 2016

Class Certification Hearing January 19, 2017

Discovery Closes (Except for Expert Discovery) July 20, 2017

Opening Expert Merit Report(s) July 27, 2017

Rebuttal Expert Merit Report(s) August 24, 2017

Close of Expert Discovery September 14, 2017

Motions for Summary Judgment September 14, 2017

Summary Judgment Responses October 5, 2017

Summary Judgment Replies October 19, 2017

Summary Judgment Hearing November 2, 2017

Deadline for Parties to Meet and Confer re Joint 

Pretrial Statement

February 1, 2018

Pretrial Statement and Proposed Order February 8, 2018

Motions in Limine February 8, 2018

Daubert Hearing February 9, 2018

Responses to Motions in Limine February 15, 2018

Submit Jury Instructions February 15, 2018

Pre-Trial Conference February 22, 2018

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Trial Briefs March 12, 2018

Trial March 19, 2018

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 3, 2016

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BETH LABSON FREEMAN

United States District Judge

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