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Nature of Suit Code: 385
Nature of Suit: Property Damage - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSEPH MICHAEL BALERO, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

LUMBER LIQUIDATORS, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-01005-JST 

ORDER REGARDING EVIDENCE 

PRESERVATION ORDER AND 

RELATED NOTICE

Now before the Court is the parties’ dispute regarding an appropriate evidence preservation 

order. The parties originally proposed competing versions of such an order in the Joint Case 

Management Statement filed April 21, 2015, ECF No. 43. At the Court’s direction, the parties 

then submitted competing Supplemental Case Management Statements justifying their respective 

proposed orders. ECF Nos. 55, 56. 

Having considered the parties’ arguments, the Court will adopt Plaintiffs' proposed 

evidence preservation order, as modified by Plaintiffs' Supplemental Case Management 

Conference Statement Regarding Evidence Preservation. ECF No. 56 at 3. The Court will also 

order that Plaintiffs insert the following paragraph after the first full paragraph of the order: 

One purpose of the present Order is to maintain the status quo until 

such time as the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation either 

selects a transferee court or denies the pending motion to coordinate. 

This Court, or a transferee court, may hereafter modify any term of 

this Order, including the terms regarding the temporal or subject 

matter scope of Lumber Liquidators' or its agents' obligation to 

maintain documents or information. Also, the terms of this Order 

regarding temporal and subject matter scope are intended to govern 

evidence preservation only, and do not constitute findings by the 

Court regarding any party or entity's obligation to produce 

documents in response to a future discovery request in this 

proceeding. 

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The Court will also adopt the form of notice attached as Exhibit A to the Plaintiffs' 

Supplemental Case Management Conference Statement. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 7, 2015

______________________________________

JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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