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Nature of Suit Code: 310
Nature of Suit: Airplane Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Airline Crash

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MCCARTHY, LLP 

FRANK M. PITRE (SBN 100077) 

fpitre@cpmlegal.com 

CHRISTOPHER LAVORATO (SBN 221034) 

clavorato@cpmlegal.com 

ALEXANDRA A. HAMILTON (SBN 280834) 

ahamilton@cpmlegal.com 

COTCHETT, PITRE & McCARTHY, LLP 

San Francisco Airport Office Center 

840 Malcolm Road 

Burlingame, CA 94010 

Telephone: (650) 697-6000 

Facsimile: (650) 697-0577 

Liaison Counsel for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IN RE: AIR CRASH AT SAN FRANCISCO, 

CALIFORNIA ON JULY 6, 2013 

MDL No. 2497 

[PROPOSED] ORDER FOLLOWING 

MAY 30, 2014 CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE, INCLUDING PROCESS 

FOR NEW COMPLAINTS 

*As Modified by the Court* 

 

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 The Court held a management conference in the In re: Air Crash at San Francisco, 

California on July 6, 2013 MDL No. 2497 Proceedings (“Proceeding”) before Honorable 

Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on May 30, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. The appearances of counsel are noted 

on the record. All parties having been represented by their attorneys of record, the Court having 

conferred with counsel and counsel having participated in the conference, and good cause 

appearing therefore, the Court enters the following orders for management of the Proceeding and 

each case already joined, or to be joined, in the Proceeding: 

1. PLEADINGS 

A. New Complaints 

Plaintiffs joining the MDL litigation must file the following documents: 

• Abbreviated Complaint, which is attached as Exhibit A. This must be filed as 

an individual case with the Clerk’s Office and served on all defendants that 

Plaintiff choses to name. Frank Silane, counsel for Asiana Airlines, Inc., has 

authority to accept service on behalf of his client only. The other Defendants 

require service as permitted by law. 

• Administrative Motion to Consider Whether Case Should be Related, which 

is attached as Exhibit B. 

• Notice of Adoption of the Master Complaint By Plaintiff, which is attached as 

Exhibit C. The Master Consolidated Complaint is Docket No. 60 in MDL No. 

2497. A party desiring to add claims not included in the master complaint must 

do so as an exhibit accompanying the Notice of Adoption Form. 

• Administrative Motion to Dismiss Complaint Without Prejudice, which is 

attached as Exhibit D. 

• An electronic and editable copy of these documents can be obtained from liaison 

counsel for the Plaintiffs, Frank M. Pitre, of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP. 

B. Response to New Complaints 

On or before June 12, 2014, Defendants will each file a Master Answer to the Master 

Consolidated Complaint. For any Notice of Adoption that adds causes of action not present in 

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the Master Consolidated Complaint, Defendants will file an Abbreviated Answer on or before 

the later of (i) June 12, 2014, or (ii) 21 days after the filing of the Notice of Adoption. 

2. DISCOVERY 

The parties have agreed upon and submitted to the Court’s review the following proposed 

discovery plan for non-expert discovery: 

a. Initial Disclosures Required by Rule 26(a)(1) 

Pursuant to this Court’s Order Re Case Management Procedures, the parties exchanged 

initial disclosures pursuant to Rule 26(a)(1) on May 12, 2014. Defendants Asiana and Boeing 

provided Plaintiffs with their respective consolidated initial disclosures. Plaintiffs, through 

Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel, provided joint initial disclosures related to liability issues. Most (but 

not all) of the individual Plaintiffs provided separate initial disclosures on damages issues. 

b. Subjects and Timing of Non-Expert Discovery 

(1) Damages Discovery 

Limited damages discovery will be required to cover categories of damages not covered 

in sufficient detail by Plaintiffs’ Rule 26 disclosures. The parties have agreed that Defendants 

will review the individual damages initial Rule 26 disclosures of the Plaintiffs and, where 

required, serve written discovery tailored to each individual case geared to obtaining information 

required for a full and fair assessment of the damages claims. Defendants also will serve 

document subpoenas, where necessary, to obtain individual Plaintiff’s medical records and/or 

records related to economic loss claims. Upon receipt of the responses to the written discovery 

and subpoenaed records, Defendants will determine in which cases it will be necessary to take 

party or non-party depositions. The parties will meet and confer on ways to minimize the 

inconvenience and costs associated with the taking of depositions outside of this jurisdiction, 

including the possibility of taking depositions, where appropriate, by video conferencing. 

Defendants also may request independent medical examinations in a limited number of cases 

involving more seriously injured plaintiffs or plaintiffs claiming continuing disability. As in the 

case of depositions, the parties agree to meet and confer on ways to minimize the cost and 

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inconvenience associated with the conduct of any independent medical examinations which may 

be required. 

The parties have agreed to the following schedule for non-expert damages discovery: 

• On or before June 30, 2014 – Service of written damages discovery on plaintiffs 

and service of damage document subpoenas, including subpoenas for documents 

related to claims for loss of earnings. 

• On or before June 30, 2014 – Service of subpoenas on medical care providers 

identified in Plaintiffs’ Rule 26 disclosures. 

• On or before August 18, 2014 – Service of notices of depositions on party and 

non-party witnesses. (Service of notices of depositions by this date will be 

contingent upon Plaintiffs’ service of timely and complete responses to 

Defendants’ written discovery.) 

• August 18, 2014 – Service of requests for physical and/or mental examinations. 

(Service of requests for physical and/or mental examinations by this date will be 

contingent upon the Plaintiffs’ service of timely and complete responses to 

Defendants’ written discovery.) 

Once the defendants have sufficient damages information to make full and fair 

assessments of each individual Plaintiff’s damages claims, the parties will schedule mediations. 

The parties also will attempt, as soon as reasonably possible, to establish reasonable guidelines 

for evaluating fair passenger compensation and to facilitate settlements. It is anticipated that 

mediations in those cases where full and fair damages assessments may be made and where 

settlement through direct negotiations is unsuccessful will commence by September 15, 2014, 

but the parties will be amenable to commencing mediations prior to that date in the event that 

there are cases which warrant earlier mediation. 

(2) Liability Discovery 

Plaintiffs have offered in their joint initial disclosures to make available to Defendants 

documents obtained by plaintiffs pursuant to Freedom of Information Act Requests, photographs 

and videos of the crash, and numerous articles concerning the crash. Plaintiffs will produce 

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those items to Defendants by July 29, 2014. Defendant Boeing has offered in its initial 

disclosures to produce its submission to the NTSB and the documents cited or referred to the 

submission, provided that the necessary protective order is entered. 

The parties have further agreed that, without waiving any objections based on privilege, 

Defendants will respond to targeted liability discovery in the form of requests for admissions and 

requests for production served by plaintiffs in draft form on May 9, 2014. It is anticipated that 

defendants will respond to these targeted discovery requests with pleadings by July 29, 2014—

sixty (60) days from May 30, 2014—and that the production of documents will take place on a 

rolling basis, which may extend beyond sixty (60) days from service. 

The parties will also need to address the procedure for identifying responsive documents, 

the format for ESI production, the terms of a protective order, the simplification of a privilege 

log, and any other potential detail surrounding the production. The parties anticipate that they 

will address and resolve these issues as soon as reasonably possible. 

3. MEDIATORS 

All parties will meet and confer to select mediators. 

4. NEXT CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

The next case management conference is set for September 26, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in 

Courtroom 1, United States Courthouse, Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building, 1301 Clay Street, 

Oakland, California. A joint case management statement must be filed with this Court by 

September 19, 2014. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: _6/12/2014 _________________________________________ 

 HON. YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

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Approved as conforming to the rulings of the Court: 

DATED: June 6, 2014 COTCHETT, PITRE & McCARTHY, LLP

By: /s/ 

FRANK M. PITRE 

CHRISTOPHER LAVORATO 

 ALEXANDRA A. HAMILTON 

 

 Liaison Counsel for Plaintiffs 

DATED: June 6, 2014 CONDON & FORSYTH LLP 

By: /s/ 

FRANK A. SILANE 

JENNIFER J. JOHNSTON 

SCOTT D. CUNNINGHAM 

IVY L. NOWINSKI 

NATASHA N. MIKHA 

Attorneys for Defendant: 

Asiana Airlines, Inc.

DATED: June 6, 2014 PERKINS COIE LLP 

By: /s/ 

BATES M. LARSON 

BRUCE D. CAMPBELL 

CHARLES W. MULANEY 

ERIC B. WOLFF 

GRANT J.SILVERNALE, III, 

GRETCHEN M. PAINE 

JOHN D. DILLOW 

KAYCIE L.WALL 

MICHAEL E. SCOVILLE 

Attorneys for Defendant: 

The Boeing Company, a Corporation 

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ATTESTATION OF E-FILED SIGNATURES 

I, Alexandra A. Hamilton, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to 

file the Plaintiffs’ Joint Case Management Statement. In compliance with Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I 

hereby attest that the concurrence to the filing of this document has been obtained from each 

signatory hereto. 

DATED: June 6, 2014 COTCHETT, PITRE & MCCARTHY, LLP 

By: _______________________________________ 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

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