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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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MCGUIREWOODS LLP 

Matthew C. Kane (SBN 171829) Email: mkane@mcguirewoods.com Michael D. Mandel (SBN 216934) Email: mmandel@mcguirewoods.com John A. Van Hook (SBN 205067) Email: jvanhook@mcguirewoods.com Christopher Killens (SBN 254466) Email: ckillens@mcguirewoods.com 1800 Century Park East, 8th Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90067 

Telephone: (310) 315-8200 

Facsimile: (310) 315-8210 

Attorneys for Defendant 

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. 

BAKER & SCHWARTZ LAW PRACTICE 

Chris Baker (SBN 181557) Email: cbaker@bakerlp.com 44 Montgomery Street, Suite 3520 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 433-1064 

Facsimile: (415) 520-0446 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

SHERI GARIBALDI 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SHERI GARIBALDI, on behalf of

herself and all others similarly situated, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL 

ASSOCIATION, and DOES 1 through 

10, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 3:13-CV-02223-SI

SECOND STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER TO 

CONTINUE FILING DEADLINE 

AND HEARING DATE ON 

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR 

PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF 

CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT 

Current Dates: 

Motion Filing Deadline: Feb 13, 2015 

Motion Hearing Date: Feb. 27, 2015 

Requested Continued Dates: 

Motion Filing Deadline: Feb. 27, 2015 

Motion Hearing Date: March 13, 2015 

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Plaintiff Sheri Garibaldi (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Bank of America, N.A. 

(“Defendant” or “BANA”), by and through their respective counsel of record, 

hereby enter in this SECOND STIPULATION TO CONTINUE FILING 

DEADLINE AND HEARING DATE ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR 

PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT, with 

reference to the following facts: 

WHEREAS, on December 18, 2015, the Court held a further Case 

Management Conference, and set the current dates for filing and hearing of 

Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary approval of the pending class action settlement 

(Dkt. #71), including: 

 a deadline of January 30, 2015 for Plaintiff to file her motion for 

preliminary approval of the class action settlement, and 

 a hearing date of February 13, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. on Plaintiff’s motion 

for preliminary approval; 

WHEREAS, since that date, the Parties have been diligently and 

cooperatively working to finalize the class action settlement agreement, and 

Defendant has been gathering substantial updated and supplemental data requested 

by Plaintiff in connection with the settlement and Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary 

approval; 

WHEREAS, despite Defendant’s intention to provide Plaintiff will all 

updated and supplemental data by January 19, 2015, some of the data took longer 

than anticipated to gather, analyze and produce, and these datasets were produced to 

Plaintiff on January 21 and 27, 2015; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff has provided Defendant with questions and requested 

additional information and clarification regarding some of the data provided to 

Plaintiff, which Defendant is working to provide; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have exchanged multiple drafts of the settlement 

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agreement, with each side providing multiple rounds of proposed revisions, 

including most recently, Defendant’s draft of the settlement agreement provided to 

Plaintiff on February 9, 2015. 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff is diligently working on the latest version of the draft 

settlement agreement and the parties continue to identify and bargain about certain 

language and settlement terms. The parties also continue to resolve their 

disagreements. 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff’s ongoing deep dive analysis of the tens of millions of 

cells of excel data provided by the Bank raises additional issues relating to the 

equitable and rational distribution of the settlement proceeds among class members 

and, potentially, one or more cy pres; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Plaintiff’s counsel have fiduciary duties to the 

class, and both parties seek to present the Court with a settlement that anticipates 

and addresses any potential objections to the settlement; 

WHEREAS, the Parties continue to work cooperatively to finalize the 

settlement agreement, to clarify any outstanding questions regarding the data, and 

for Plaintiff to prepare and Defendant to review and comment on Plaintiff’s motion 

for preliminary approval of the class action settlement; 

WHEREAS, winter break for schools is the week of February 16, 2015 and 

counsel have school-aged children; 

WHEREAS, due to the following circumstances, the Parties request an 

additional two-week continuance of the deadline for Plaintiff to file her motion for 

preliminary approval and for the hearing on Plaintiff’s motion.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, by 

and between Plaintiff and Defendant through their respective undersigned counsel 

that the deadline to file and hearing date on Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary 

approval of class action settlement are continued as follows: 

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 February 27, 2015 – Plaintiff’s deadline to file her motion for

preliminary approval of the class action settlement, and 

 March 13, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. (or the next hearing date that is 

convenient for the Court) – hearing date on Plaintiff’s motion for 

preliminary approval. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED 

DATED: February 9, 2015 MCGUIREWOODS LLP 

By: /s/ John A. Van Hook (with permission)

 John A. Van Hook

Attorneys for Defendant 

Bank of America, N.A. 

DATED: February 9, 2015 BAKER & SCHWARTZ LAW PRACTICE

By: /s/ Chris Baker 

 Chris Baker

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Sheri Garibaldi

 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

The Court, having read and considered the Parties’ STIPULATION TO 

CONTINUE FILING DEADLINE AND HEARING DATE ON PLAINTIFF’S 

MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF CLASS ACTION 

SETTLEMENT, and finding good cause in support thereof, the Court hereby orders 

that the filing deadline and the hearing date is continued as follows: 

1. Plaintiff’s deadline to file her motion for preliminary approval of the class 

action settlement is continued to February 27, 2015; 

2. The hearing on Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary approval of the class 

action settlement is continued to March 13, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. 

DATED:___________________ _________________________________ 

 HON. SUSAN ILSTON 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

I hereby certify that on February 9, 2015, I electronically transmitted the 

foregoing document to the Clerk’s Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and 

service via transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filing. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of 

America that the foregoing is true and correct. 

Executed on February 9, 2015, at San Francisco, California. 

/s/Deborah Schwartz 

Deborah Schwartz 

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