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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE DEPOSITIONS 

Case No. C 07-03363 CRB 

408827.02 

KEKER & VAN NEST, LLP 

DARALYN J. DURIE - #169825 

CHRISTA M. ANDERSON - #184325 

DAN JACKSON - #216091 

ROSE DARLING - #243893 

710 Sansome Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111-1704 

Telephone: (415) 391-5400 

Facsimile: (415) 397-7188 

Attorneys for Defendants 

THE GAP, INC., a/k/a, GAP, INC., GAP INTERNATIONAL 

SALES, INC., BANANA REPUBLIC, LLC, AND OLD NAVY, 

LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

ROOTS READY MADE GARMENTS CO. 

W.L.L., 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

THE GAP, INC., a/k/a, GAP, INC., GAP 

INTERNATIONAL SALES, INC., BANANA 

REPUBLIC, LLC, AND OLD NAVY, LLC 

Defendants. 

 

Case No. C 07-03363 CRB 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER RE DEPOSITIONS 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE DEPOSITIONS 

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STIPULATION 

WHEREAS, many of the witnesses that the parties have identified as potentially having 

relevant knowledge in this case reside in countries where it is time consuming, expensive, or 

even impossible to secure a deposition, and the parties wish to avoid unnecessary expense and 

effort in deposing such witnesses but at the same time wish to ensure their ability to depose any 

witness who will appear at trial or provide a declaration (e.g. on motion for summary judgment), 

THEREFORE, Plaintiffs Roots Ready Made Garments Co. W.L.L. (“Roots”) and 

Defendants The Gap, Inc., a/k/a GAP Inc., Gap International Sales, Inc., Banana Republic, LLC, 

and Old Navy, LLC (“Gap”), by and through their counsel of record, stipulate and agree as 

follows: 

1. As soon as practicable, on a rolling basis, and to be provided on or before April 

18, 2008, the parties will disclose the percipient witnesses whose testimony they intend to, or 

wish to preserve their right to, present at trial or in connection with any motion. The disclosing 

party will make such witnesses available for deposition within the discovery period, according to 

a schedule on which the parties will meet and confer in good faith, but such meet and confer 

must be resolved within 14 days of the first attempt to schedule any deposition. 

2. The parties must make their best, good-faith efforts to timely disclose witnesses 

and make them available for deposition according to paragraph 1. If, despite such efforts, a party 

decides after April 18, 2008 that it will want to, or wishes to preserve the right to, present 

testimony from a witness whom the party has not yet made available for deposition, the party 

must make that witness available for deposition as soon as practicable—if necessary, after the 

discovery period has ended, and in any event at least two weeks before commencement of trial. 

Trial testimony will not be admitted from witnesses who were not made available for deposition. 

3. A party that files a declaration in connection with, for example, a motion for 

summary judgment or opposition thereto must make their best, good-faith efforts to make the 

declarant available for deposition within a week following service of their declaration on a 

mutually agreeable date, provided the declarant was not previously deposed. If a party, despite 

its best efforts, is unable make the declarant available within one week following service of their 

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declaration, the party will make its best, good-faith effort to make the witness available as soon 

as possible after that time, and the parties shall meet and confer in good faith regarding an 

extension to any pending deadline for filing any pleading responsive to the one in support of 

which the declaration was filed. Declarations from witnesses not made available for deposition 

will not be considered. 

4. All witnesses will be made available for deposition in a location acceptable to the 

witness. If any party objects to the proposed location for the deposition, the parties agree that 

said objecting party may file a motion with the Court—if necessary, on a shortened briefing 

schedule—for resolution of that dispute. 

5. If a party, despite its best efforts, is unable to secure the presence at deposition of 

a witness it identified and for whom a deposition was scheduled because the witness does not 

appear as promised, that party may attempt to reschedule the deposition, but in that event, that 

party will be liable for the other parties’ reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in 

connection with the cancelled deposition. Any rescheduled deposition must occur at least two 

weeks before the commencement of trial. Alternatively, the party may agree not to call the 

witness who failed to appear for deposition at trial, and to withdraw any declarations from that 

witness, in which case the party will not be liable for attorneys’ fees or costs incurred by the 

other parties in connection with the cancelled deposition. 

Dated: January 22, 2008 KEKER & VAN NEST, LLP 

By: /s/ Rose Darling________

ROSE DARLING 

Attorneys for Defendants 

GAP INTERNATIONAL SALES, INC., 

THE GAP, INC., BANANA REPUBLIC, 

LLC, and OLD NAVY, LLC 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE DEPOSITIONS 

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Dated: January 22, 2008 COVINGTON & BURLING LLP 

By: Concurrence obtained General Order 45B.X

BRADLEY NASH (Pro Hac Vice) 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ROOTS READY MADE GARMENTS 

CO. W.L.L. 

ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 

_________________________________ 

HONORABLE CHARLES R. BREYER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

January 23, 2008

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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