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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition For Removal--Other Contract

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[PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING DISCOVERY DISPUTE 3:17-CV-02335-WHA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

PAULA L. BLAIR, ANDREA ROBINSON, 

AND FALECHIA A. HARRIS, individually 

and on behalf of all others similarly situated, 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

RENT-A-CENTER, INC., a Delaware 

corporation; RENT-A-CENTER WEST, INC., 

a Delaware corporation; and DOES 1-50, 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

 CASE NO. 3:17-CV-02335-WHA 

[PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING 

DISCOVERY DISPUTE 

Judge: Hon. William H. Alsup 

 

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ORDER 

Pursuant to the Order Setting Hearing Re Plaintiffs’ Discovery Dispute (Dkt. 68), the 

Parties conducted a meet-and-confer in the Court’s jury room on October 17, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. 

to 11:00 a.m., following which the Court conducted a hearing. As a result of the meet-and-confer 

and hearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 

1. Defendants Rent-A-Center, Inc. and Rent-A-Center West, Inc. (“RAC”) shall, 

within thirty (30) days from the date of this Order, produce transactional data for rent-to-own 

transactions within California during the purported class period, which is contained within RAC’s 

data warehouse and/or SIMS system and/or its Oracle Database/Inventory system(s) in an 

electronic format (i.e. the data shall be produced in a manipulable format) sufficient to calculate 

the formulas under the Karnette Act (e.g., maximum cash price and maximum total payments, 

etc.) and including the information in SIMS that would normally be reflected in Rental Purchase 

Agreements (e.g., categories (i)-(xi) in RFP No. 2) in response to Plaintiff Paula Blair’s First Set 

of Requests for Production of Documents (“RFP”) Nos. 1, 2, 7, 8, 16, 17, 24-34, 36, and 49. 

Without limiting the foregoing, the production shall include documents sufficient to establish the 

Lessor’s Cost of each item of merchandise, as that term is defined in the RFP. 

2. As for the physical rental purchase agreements and arbitration agreements 

regarding rent-to-own transactions within California during the purported class period, RAC will 

provide agreements reflecting 20 transactions. To the extent Plaintiff requests additional rental 

purchase agreements or arbitration agreements, Plaintiff’s counsel shall cover all reasonable costs 

associated with locating, reviewing, and producing such documents. Further, given the manual 

review associated with fulfilling any such request, RAC shall have at least thirty (30) days to 

produce such documents. Either party may seek judicial guidance as to the scope and cost shifting 

of any such request as well as the deadline for complying with any such request. 

3. Within thirty (30) days from the date of this Order, RAC shall produce any 

additional documents in its possession, custody or control reflecting policies, practices and 

procedures that it has not already produced, which are responsive to RFP Nos. 12, 18, 20, 21, 23, 

and 36-40, and shall serve supplemental written responses to these RFPs. 

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4. Within thirty (30) days from the date of this Order, RAC shall identify the five 

individuals most knowledgeable about the topics identified in RFP Nos. 45–48, namely 

purchasing merchandise to be offered for lease in California, pricing merchandise offered for lease 

in California, computing the Lessor’s Cost of merchandise leased in California, and ensuring that 

pricing of merchandise in California complied with the Karnette Act. 

5. Within thirty (30) days of the date of this Order, RAC shall produce all 

organizational charts currently in existence responsive to RFP Nos. 50, 51, and 53. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ___________________, 2017 

 

 WILLIAM H. ALSUP 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

828007.1 

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