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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 15:78m(a) Securities Exchange Act

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[PROPOSED] CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

BABAK HATAMIAN and LUSSA DENNJ

SALVATORE, individually and on behalf of 

all others similarly situated, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., 

RORY P. READ, THOMAS J. SEIFERT, 

RICHARD A. BERGMAN AND LISA T. 

SU,, 

 Defendants 

CASE NO. 4:14-cv-00226-YGR

[PROPOSED] CASE MANAGEMENT 

ORDER 

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On June 17, 2015, Lead Plaintiffs KBC Asset Management NV and Arkansas Teacher 

Retirement System, together with Defendants Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Rory P. Read; 

Thomas J. Seifert; Richard A. Bergman; and Dr. Lisa T. Su (collectively, the “Parties”), 

appeared before the Court for a Case Management Conference. Having considered the Parties’ 

Amended Joint Case Management Conference Statement (Dkt #123) and statements of counsel 

at the Case Management Conference, the Court orders as follows: 

1. CLASS CERTIFICATION 

Lead Plaintiffs will move for class certification in accordance with the schedule set forth 

below. Failure to make class representatives available pursuant to this Order may result in 

monetary and/or evidentiary sanctions. 

Event Date 

Class Certification Motion Deadline September 7, 2015 

Deposition of Class Representative(s) Between September 14 and 25, 2015 

Response to Class Certification Motion October 22, 2015 

Class Certification Motion Reply December 7, 2015 

As an alternative, the Court may extend the deadline for Defendants’ Response to Lead 

Plaintiffs’ Class Certification Motion proportionately if the class representatives are not available 

for deposition by September 25, 2015. 

2. SETTLEMENT AND ADR 

Defendants and Lead Plaintiffs filed certifications pursuant to ADR Local Rule 3-5(b). 

(ECF Nos. 91, 96, 97.) The parties agree to conduct private mediation by January 31, 2016. 

The parties further agree to submit to the Court the name of a mutually agreed mediator by July 

3, 2015. A compliance hearing regarding the parties’ selection of a mediator shall be held on 

Friday, July 10, 2015 on the Court’s 9:01 a.m. calendar, in the Federal Courthouse, 1301 Clay 

Street, Oakland, California, Courtroom 1. 

Five (5) business days prior to the date of the compliance hearing, the parties shall file 

either: (a) statement identifying their selected mediator and the status of their scheduling 

mediation; or (b) a one-page JOINT STATEMENT setting forth an explanation for their failure to 

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comply. If compliance is complete, the parties need not appear and the compliance hearing will 

be taken off calendar. 

Telephonic appearances will be allowed if the parties have submitted a joint statement in 

a timely fashion. Failure to do so may result in sanctions. 

3. SCHEDULING 

The parties’ proposed schedule and discovery plan is set forth as follows: 

Event Date 

Initial Disclosures May 21, 2015 

Defendants’ Answer May 14, 2015 

Initial Written Discovery Served June 1, 2015 

Lead Plaintiffs Disclose Identities of 

Confidential Witnesses June 24, 2015 

Initial Document Production Substantially 

Complete 

October 23, 2015 

Follow Up Written Discovery Served November 6, 2015 

Follow Up Production Substantially 

Complete 

February 5, 2015 

Joinder of Other Parties and Pleading 

Amendments 

February 19, 2016 

Close of Fact Discovery June 15, 2016 

Expert Reports on Issues Where Party Has 

Burden of Proof 

July 6, 2016 

Responsive Expert Reports August 11, 2016 

Rebuttal Expert Reports September 15, 2016 

Expert Discovery Cut-off October 31, 2016 

Summary Judgment and Daubert Motions November 17, 2016 

Summary Judgment and Daubert 

Oppositions 

January 16, 2017 

Summary Judgment and Daubert Replies February 16, 2017 

The AMENDED JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE STATEMENT is 

approved as the Case Management Order for this case and all parties shall comply with its 

provisions. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: June 29, 2015 

THE HON. YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

United States District Judge

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ECF ATTESTATION 

I, Melanie M. Blunschi, am the ECF User whose ID and Password are being used to file 

this:

JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE STATEMENT 

In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that William H. Narwold has 

concurred in this filing. 

Executed on the 22nd day of June 2015. 

By: /s/ Melanie M. Blunschi 

 Melanie M. Blunschi 

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