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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:1981 Job Discrimination (Race)

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DEFENDANT ANNA’S LINENS, INC.’S MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR 

SUMMARY JUDGMENT OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE, PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT

MICHAEL T. LUCEY (SBN: 099927) 

MICHAEL D. BRUNO (SBN: 166805)

BRIAN P. MASCHLER (SBN: 111824) 

GORDON & REES LLP 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 986-5900 

Facsimile: (415) 986-8054 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ANNA'S LINENS, INC. 

Plaintiffs’ Counsel Listed on the Next Page 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CORNELIUS CLARK, CHESTER LEWIS, 

JOHN PONDS and GARRANT COSEY, on behalf 

of themselves and all other similarly situated 

persons,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

ANNA'S LINENS, INC., 

Defendant.

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CASE NO. C05-02670 MMC 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

REGARDING EXTENSION OF 

CLASS CERTIFICATION 

DISCOVERY AND BRIEFING 

SCHEDULES AND STATUS 

CONFERENCE 

Judge: Hon. Maxine M. Chesney 

AIGDO/1034537/1199691v.1 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE EXTENSION OF CLASS CERTIFICATION DISCOVERY AND

BRIEFING SCHEDULES AND STATUS CONFERENCE 

Gordon & Rees LLP 

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111

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TERESA DEMCHAK (SBN: 123989) tdemchak@gdblegal.com

ROBERTA L. STEELE (SBN: 188198) rsteele@gdblegal.com

JAMES KAN (SBN: 240749) jkan@gdblegal.com

GOLDSTEIN, DEMCHAK, BALLER, 

 BORGEN & DARDARIAN 

300 Lakeside Drive, Suite 1000 

Oakland, CA 94612 

(510) 763-9800 

(510) 835-1417 (fax) 

CRAIG ACKERMANN (SBN: 2229832) cja@laborgators.com

ACKERMANN & TILAJEF, P.C. 

1180 South Beverly Drive, Suite 512 

Los Angeles, CA 90035 

(310) 277-0614 

(310) 277-0635 (fax) 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE EXTENSION OF CLASS CERTIFICATION DISCOVERY AND

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San Francisco, CA 94111

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STIPULATION

Plaintiffs Cornelius Clark, Chester Lewis, John Ponds, and Garrant Cosey (“Plaintiffs”) 

and Defendant Anna’s Linens, Inc. (“Anna’s Linens”) by and through their counsel of record 

agree that the previous deadlines approved by this Court should be revised as set forth below for 

the following reasons: Following a three-day mediation before Jerry Spolter of JAMS, the 

parties have reached a settlement agreement. They are now in negotiations with the EEOC to 

secure its consent to and joinder in the settlement. The extension of the deadlines as requested 

herein would allow the Parties to finalize negotiations with the EEOC in the hopes of achieving a 

global settlement of this dispute and would conserve resources that would otherwise necessarily 

be spent in completing discovery and preparing to meet all of the deadlines under the current 

schedule. The Parties, hereby stipulate and respectfully request that the court modify, approve, 

and adopt the Class Certification Discovery and Briefing Schedules and Status Conference as 

follows: 

Non-Expert Discovery Schedule

Complete non-expert interrogatories and document discovery by July 2, 2007 

Complete non-expert depositions (e.g., Parties, Fed.R.Civ.P. 

30(b)(6) deponents, witnesses and records custodians) by July 2, 2007 

Expert Discovery and Reports

Plaintiffs to provide Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(a)(2) expert disclosures by October 31, 2006 

Plaintiffs’ expert(s) to be made available for deposition by May 14, 2007 

Defendants to provide Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(a)(2) expert disclosures 

by June 11, 2007 

Defendants’ expert(s) to be made available for deposition by June 25, 2007 

Plaintiffs to serve rebuttal expert reports by July 9, 2007 

Defendant to serve supplemental expert reports by July 23, 2007 

Expert discovery cut-off July 23, 2007 

Class Certification Briefing Schedule

Motion for Class Certification to be filed by July 30, 2007 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE EXTENSION OF CLASS CERTIFICATION DISCOVERY AND

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San Francisco, CA 94111

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Defendants’ Opposition to Class Certification to be filed by August 27, 2007 

Plaintiffs’ Reply to be filed by September 10, 2007 

Hearing on Motion for Class Certification (on or after) September 25, 2007 

Status Conference To be determined by the Court

 Respectfully submitted, 

DATED: April 23, 2007 GOLDSTEIN, DEMCHAK, BALLER, 

BORGEN & DARDARIAN 

By: /s/ Teresa Demchak___________

TERESA DEMCHAK 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs CORNELIUS 

CLARK, CHESTER LEWIS, JOHN 

PONDS, AND GARRANT COSEY 

DATED: April 23, 2007 GORDON & REES LLP 

By: /s/ Brian P. Maschler ______

BRIAN P. MASCHLER 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ANNA’S LINENS, INC. 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE EXTENSION OF CLASS CERTIFICATION DISCOVERY AND

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ORDER

The Court has considered the above Stipulation, and good cause appearing therefor, the 

Court modifies, approves, and hereby ORDERS the following schedule and deadlines for class 

certification discovery and briefing. 

Non-Expert Discovery Schedule

Complete non-expert interrogatories and document 

discovery by

July 2, 2007 

Complete non-expert depositions (e.g., Parties, Fed.R.Civ.P. 

30(b)(6) deponents, witnesses and records custodians) by 

July 2, 2007 

Expert Discovery and Reports

Plaintiffs to provide Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(a)(2) expert disclosures 

by

October 31, 2006 

Plaintiffs’ expert(s) to be made available for deposition by May 14, 2007 

Defendants to provide Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(a)(2) expert 

disclosures by 

June 11, 2007 

Defendants’ expert(s) to be made available for deposition by June 25, 2007 

Plaintiffs to serve rebuttal expert reports by July 9, 2007 

Defendant to serve supplemental expert reports by July 23, 2007 

Expert discovery cut-off July 23, 2007 

Class Certification Briefing Schedule

Motion for Class Certification to be filed by July 30, 2007 

Defendants’ Opposition to Class Certification to be filed by August 27, 2007 

Plaintiffs’ Reply to be filed by September 10, 2007 

Hearing on Motion for Class Certification Friday, September 28, 2007 

Status Conference November 9, 2007 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: April 24, 2007 _______________________________

Hon. Maxine M. Chesney 

United States District Court Judge 

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