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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 29:201 Fair Labor Standards Act

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FURTHER CONTINUING DEADLINE FOR CLASS 

CERTIFICATION HEARING 

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 350 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94111 

(415) 693-5566 

Jared E. Peterson (State Bar No. 49700) 

LAW OFFICES OF JARED E. PETERSON 

2017 Lincoln Street 

Berkeley, California 94709 

Telephone: (510) 841-4462 

Facsimile: (510) 841-4464 

James B. Nebel (State Bar No. 69626) 

FLYNN, DELICH & WISE LLP 

One California Street, Suite 350 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 693-5566 

Facsimile: (415) 693-0410 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 

NATE BOOKER, ALBERT JOHNSON and KELVIN DUBOSE 

Denis F. Shanagher (State Bar No. 100222) 

LUCE, FORWARD, HAMILTON & SCRIPPS LLP 

121 Spear Street, Suite 200 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 356-4600 

Facsimile: (415) 356-4610 

Attorneys for Defendant, 

GLOTEL, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

NATE BOOKER, ALBERT JOHNSON and 

KELVIN DUBOSE, on behalf of themselves 

and those similarly situated, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

GLOTEL, INC.; et al., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No.: C 05 4795 CW 

STIPULATION AND ORDER FURTHER 

CONTINUING DEADLINE FOR 

HEARING CLASS CERTIFICATION 

MOTION AS MODIFIED 

CLASS ACTION 

Honorable Claudia Wilken 

 

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 The parties, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate, subject to the approval of 

the Court, that the April 20, 2007, deadline for hearing of plaintiffs’ anticipated motion for class 

certification should be continued and rescheduled. The parties propose that the motion be timely 

filed for hearing to be held on June 8, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. The basis for the continuance and rescheduling is as follows: 

1. This is the third request that the parties have made to continue the deadline for 

hearing of the class certification motion. On August 15, 2006, the parties submitted a stipulation 

that requested that Court vacate the deadline (as well as the deadline to complete mediation) to be 

re-set 90 days after defendant Glotel, Inc. (“Glotel”) completed its document production and 

responded to plaintiffs’ interrogatories. The Court granted a continuance but on modified terms, 

rescheduling the motion date and mediation deadline and also continuing a Case Management 

Conference, setting each for December 1, 2006. 

2. Despite the parties’ cooperative approach to discovery, they were unable to make 

sufficient progress for the plaintiffs to be in a position to file a motion for class certification to be 

heard by December 1, 2006. As a consequence, on October 24, 2006, the parties submitted a 

further stipulation to continue the hearing date for a motion for class certification to April 20, 

2007, and to set the deadline to conduct mediation for that same date. (A trial date has not yet 

been set). 

3. On January 24, 2007, the parties conducted a day-long mediation session before 

Mark S. Rudy of Rudy, Exelrod & Zieff, L.L.P. Mr. Rudy is a very experienced and extremely 

well-respected mediator in employment class action matters. At the end of the session, Mr. Rudy 

gave the parties a “mediator’s proposal” for settlement. He set a deadline of February 22, 2007, 

for the parties to approve or reject the proposal. To be approved by Glotel, Inc., the proposal 

requires consideration at the Board level of the U.S. entity headquartered in Chicago and approval 

by the parent company in the United Kingdom. In addition, it became apparent at the session that 

the parties needed to do additional work in defining the scope of the putative class. Both the 

consideration of the settlement proposal and the further definition of the class have taken longer 

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than originally anticipated. As a consequence, Mr. Rudy has extended the deadline for approval or 

rejection until March 12, 2007. 

3. In the event that the case is not resolved on or before March 12, 2007, plaintiffs will need 

additional time to prepare their motion for class certification. Continuing the hearing on the 

motion until June 8, 2007, provides the plaintiffs adequate time to prepare the motion. 

 For these reasons, the parties request the Court to approve this Stipulation and continue the 

hearing date for a class certification motion and for a Case Management Conference to June 8, 

2007 at 10:00 a.m. 

 

Dated: March 6, 2007 LAW OFFICES OF JARED E. PETERSON 

 FLYNN, DELICH & WISE LLP 

 By_________/S/________________ 

 James B. Nebel 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 

 NATE BOOKER, ALBERT JOHNSON 

 and KELVIN DUBOSE 

Dated: March __, 2007 LUCE, FORWARD, HAMILTON 

 & SCRIPPS LLP 

 By_________/S/________________ 

 Denis F. Shanagher 

 Attorneys for Defendant, 

 GLOTEL, INC. 

ORDER

 The deadline for hearing plaintiffs’ anticipated motion for class certification, set for April 

20, 2007, at 10:00 a.m., and the Case Management Conference set for that same date and time are 

hereby continued and rescheduled for Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. 

Dated: March 13, 2007 

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 United States District Court Judge 

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