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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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[PROPOSED] ORDER ON PLTFS.’ MOTION TO COMPEL C 06 2584 CRB (EDL) 

MARTIN R. GLICK (No. 40187) 

Email: mglick@howardrice.com 

SHAUDY DANAYE-ELMI (No. 242083) 

Email: sdanaye-elmi@howardrice.com 

HOWARD RICE NEMEROVSKI CANADY 

FALK & RABKIN 

A Professional Corporation 

Three Embarcadero Center, 7th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111-4024 

Telephone: 415/434-1600 

Facsimile: 415/217-5910 

HAL K. LITCHFORD (pro hac vice) 

Email: hkl@litchris.com 

G. STEVEN FENDER (pro hac vice) 

Email: gsf@litchris.com 

KEITH E. ROUNSAVILLE (pro hac vice) 

Email: ker@litchris.com 

LITCHFORD & CHRISTOPHER 

Professional Association 

Bank of America Center 

390 North Orange Avenue 

Post Office Box 1549 

Orlando, Florida 32802-1549 

Telephone: 407/422-6600 

Facsimile: 407/841-0325 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

GABANA GULF DISTRIBUTION, LTD., and 

GABANA DISTRIBUTION, LTD. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

GABANA GULF DISTRIBUTION, LTD., a 

company organized under the laws of the 

United Kingdom, and GABANA 

DISTRIBUTION, LTD., a company 

organized under the laws of the United 

Kingdom, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

GAP INTERNATIONAL SALES, INC., a 

Delaware corporation, THE GAP, INC., a 

Delaware corporation, BANANA 

REPUBLIC, LLC, a Delaware limited 

liability company, and OLD NAVY, LLC, a 

Delaware limited liability company, 

Defendants. 

No. C 06 2584 CRB (EDL) 

Action Filed: April 14, 2006

[JOINT PROPOSED] ORDER ON 

PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO COMPEL

Date: June 26, 2007 

Time: 9:00 a.m. 

Place: Courtroom E, 15th Floor 

Judge: Hon. Elizabeth D. LaPorte 

Trial Date: December 3, 2007 

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On May 10, 2007, Plaintiffs Gabana Gulf Distribution, Ltd. and Gabana Distribution, 

Ltd. (collectively, “Gabana”) brought a motion to compel Defendants Gap International 

Sales, Inc., The Gap, Inc., Banana Republic, LLC, and Old Navy, LLC (collectively “Gap”) 

to produce documents withheld by Gap on claims of privilege or work-product protection 

(Docket No. 70) (“Motion”). On June 26, 2007, the Court heard Gabana’s motion, and 

GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART the same, subject to the following provisions 

and the Court’s statements on the record during the hearings. At the hearing, the Court 

ordered the Parties to meet and confer and develop a protocol for resolving their dispute 

relating to the Motion, subject to guiding principles ordered by the Court, which included the 

following: 

1. Electronic mail headers (i.e., author, recipient, date, and subject line information), 

shall be produced in unredacted form except where they themselves constitute privileged 

communications; 

2. Communications to or from in-house attorneys are not subject to the attorneyclient privilege when they are solely made for a business purpose and do not concern 

requests for or responses to requests for legal advice; 

3. To the extent the Parties cannot work out their dispute on Gabana’s Motion, the 

Court will review a small set a maximum of approximately ten documents of Gabana’s 

choosing in camera, which process shall not constitute a waiver of Gap’s privilege, if any. 

Following such in camera review, the documents may be deemed by the Court 

representative of other like documents, in a manner and to the extent determined by the 

Court, in light of the briefing by the Parties submitted in connection with the in camera 

review, or the Court shall advise the Parties how to apply its ruling on documents still the 

subject of dispute. The Parties shall meet and confer on a briefing schedule in connection 

with the in camera review, which briefing will also address the representative issue. 

 With this guidance in mind, the Parties additionally agreed that the protocol for 

conducting the meeting and conferring relating to documents withheld by Gap as privileged 

is as follows: 

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4. Gabana shall provide to Gap by letter a list of documents on which the parties 

shall meet and confer; 

(a) Gabana will select documents by date range in sets roughly surrounding 

three dates: the date on which the Parties first entered into their agreements; the date on 

which the Parties renewed their agreement; and the date on which Gap gave its termination 

notice. 

(b) Within Gabana’s selected sets, the Parties will meet and confer to address 

concerns of the nature raised in Gabana’s moving papers on the Motion. 

5. The Parties will meet and confer in person within ten days after Gabana provides 

Gap with the list of document sets described in paragraph 4. 

6. Should the Parties be unable to resolve their disputes after a good faith effort to 

meet and confer, Gabana may, subject to paragraph 7, select a small set up to a maximum 

of ten Gap documents for the Court to review in camera pursuant to paragraph 3, above. 

7. The parties will not bring any matter to the Court pursuant to the above 

paragraphs without having a final telephone call where the party wishing to submit the 

matter to the Court attempts one last meet and confer and then informs the other party that 

the meeting and conferring is complete. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: __July 5, 2007_____ 

 

 ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

AS MODIFIED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

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