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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

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Richard M. Heimann (State Bar No. 063607)

E-mail: rheimann@lchb.com 

Michael W. Sobol (State Bar No. 194857) 

E-mail: msobol@lchb.com 

Roger Heller (State Bar No. 215348) 

E-mail: rheller@lchb.com 

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & 

BERNSTEIN, LLP 

275 Battery Street, 29th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339 

Telephone: (415) 956-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008 

Richard D. McCune (State Bar No. 132124) 

E-mail: rdm@mccunewright.com 

Jae (Eddie) K. Kim (State Bar No. 236805) 

E-mail: jkk@mccunewright.com

MCCUNEWRIGHT LLP 

2068 Orange Tree Lane, Suite 216 

Redlands, California 92374 

Telephone: (909) 557-1250 

Facsimile: (909) 557-1275 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the Class

Sonya D. Winner (State Bar No. 200348)

E-mail: swinner@cov.com

David M. Jolley (State Bar No. 191164) 

E-mail: djolley@cov.com 

COVINGTON & BURLING LLP 

One Front Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 591-6000 

Facsimile: (415) 591-6091 

Emily Johnson Henn (State Bar No. 269482) 

E-mail: ehenn@cov.com 

COVINGTON & BURLING LLP 

333 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 700 

Redwood Shores, CA 94065 

Telephone: (650) 632-4700 

Facsimile: (650) 632-4800 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

VERONICA GUTIERREZ, ERIN 

WALKER, and WILLIAM SMITH, as 

individuals and on behalf of all others 

similarly situated, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., 

Defendant. 

Case No. C 07-05923-WHA 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER REGARDING PROVISION OF 

INFORMATION TO THE CLASS 

ADMINISTRATOR FOR USE IN 

ATTEMPTING TO FIND UPDATED 

ADDRESS INFORMATION FOR 

UNDELIVERABLE JUDGMENT CHECKS 

The Honorable William H. Alsup 

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STIPULATION 

WHEREAS, on July 22, 2015, the Court entered an Updated Scheduling Order Re 

Distribution in this action (Dkt. 688) (“Updated Scheduling Order”) governing, inter alia, the 

procedures for distributing judgment payments to the members of the class; 

WHEREAS, the Updated Scheduling Order provided that judgment payments for 

class members with existing Wells Fargo accounts – i.e., “Group 1” and “Group 2” class 

members – were to be made by account credit (Dkt. No. 688, ¶ 6; Dkt. No. 616, ¶ 8); 

WHEREAS, on June 7, 2016, Wells Fargo confirmed to the Court that it had 

completed the account credits for Groups 1 and 2. (Dkt. 701); 

WHEREAS, the Updated Scheduling Order provided that judgment payments for 

“class members no longer doing business with Wells Fargo” – i.e., “Group 3” class members – 

were to be made by mailed check sent by the Class Administrator (Dkt. No. 688, ¶ 6; Dkt. No. 

616, ¶ 8); 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Updated Scheduling Order, Wells Fargo provided the 

Class Administrator with the last known mailing addresses for the Group 3 class members as part 

of the “Mailed Payment List” – which also contained, for each such class member, last known 

email address, last known telephone number, and account number (see Dkt. 688, ¶ 5) – and 

subsequently the Class Administrator updated those mailing addresses through the National 

Change of Address Registry; 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Updated Scheduling Order, between July 1, 2016 and 

July 8, 2016, the Class Administrator mailed 714,337 judgment checks to each of the Group 3 

class members; 

WHEREAS, the Class Administrator reports that as of September 9, 2016, of the 

714,337 mailed judgment checks it sent, it has received as “returned, undeliverable mail” the 

checks for 175,405 class members (hereinafter, the “Undeliverable Class Members”); 

WHEREAS, the Updated Scheduling Order provides that the Class Administrator 

must use “all reasonable efforts to find the current address” for Undeliverable Class Members, so 

that it can “promptly mail new checks to those class members.” (Dkt. 688, ¶ 6); 

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WHEREAS, the Class Administrator will use the identifying information currently 

included in the “Mailed Payment List,” to conduct “skip trace” searches to obtain updated 

addresses for the Undeliverable Class Members, but has also indicated that the effectiveness of 

those efforts may be increased if the Class Administrator had access to these particular class 

members’ Social Security Numbers (which the Court did not order Wells Fargo to provide as part 

of the Mailed Payment List in the Updated Scheduling Order); 

WHEREAS, Class Counsel believes that it is the prudent course to have Wells 

Fargo provide the Class Administrator with access to the Social Security Numbers for the 

Undeliverable Class Members; 

WHEREAS, Wells Fargo has reasonably raised security and privacy concerns 

regarding its provision of Social Security Numbers for the Undeliverable Class Members, and 

Class Counsel and Wells Fargo agree that such information should only be provided by Wells 

Fargo: (a) to the Class Administrator only (and no one else, including Class Counsel); (b) only for 

those class members who are Undeliverable Class Members; and (c) only within the confines of a 

Wells Fargo facility for the sole purpose of the Class Administrator initiating the aforementioned 

skip trace searches from within that Wells Fargo facility; and 

WHEREAS, the Class Administrator has agreed to abide by the security protocols 

set forth herein with respect to any and all Social Security Numbers provided by Wells Fargo; 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between the parties, through their 

counsel of record, and the parties respectfully request that the Court order, as follows: 

1. Within three (3) days following the entry of this Order, the Class 

Administrator shall provide Wells Fargo with an “Undeliverables File” that includes the name 

and account number of each Undeliverable Class Member. 

2. By no later than September 23, 2016, Wells Fargo shall allow the Class 

Administrator access to Wells Fargo’s “clean room” in Concord, California, and allow the Class 

Administrator access to an “SSN File” that lists the name, account number, and Social Security 

Number for each Undeliverable Class Member for purposes of initiating skip trace searches from 

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within the Wells Fargo clean room. 

3. While inside Wells Fargo’s clean room, the Class Administrator shall be 

accompanied and monitored by a Wells Fargo representative to maintain the security of the Social 

Security Numbers at issue. 

4. At no point, except as necessary to perform the skip trace searches 

themselves, shall any of the Social Security Numbers be removed from or transmitted outside of 

the Wells Fargo facility. 

ORDER 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ____________ ____________________________________

The Honorable William Alsup 

United States District Judge 

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