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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1391 Personal Injury

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Case No. C04-0281-JSW ADMIN. REQUEST FOR LEAVE TO FILE 

JOINT CMC IN EXCESSOF 15 PAGES 

NANCY L. ABELL (SB# 88785) 

MARK W. ATKINSON (SB# 60472) 

HEATHER A. MORGAN (SB# 177425) 

JOSEPH W. DENG (SB# 179320) 

PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLP 

515 South Flower Street, Twenty-Fifth Floor 

Los Angeles, CA 90071-2228 

Telephone: (213) 683-6000 

Facsimile: (213) 627-0705 

Attorneys for Defendant CINTAS CORPORATION 

Plaintiffs’ Counsel Listed on Next Page 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

ROBERT RAMIREZ, ROBERT 

HARRIS, LUIS POCASANGRE 

CARDOZA, JOSE SALCEDO, A. 

SHAPPELLE THOMPSON, 

CORETTA SILVERS (formerly 

VICK), BLANCA NELLY AVALOS, 

and AMY SEVERSON, on behalf of 

themselves and all other similarly 

situated, 

Plaintiffs, 

and 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT 

OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, 

 Plaintiff-Intervenor, 

vs. 

CINTAS CORPORATION, 

Defendant. 

CASE NO. C04-0281-JSW 

ADMINISTRATIVE REQUEST FOR 

LEAVE TO FILE JOINT CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

STATEMENT IN EXCESS OF 15 

PAGES 

CMC Date: June 10, 2005 

Time: 1:30 p.m. 

Place: Courtroom 2, 17th Floor 

Judge: Hon. Jeffrey S. White 

CMC Statement 

Filing Date: June 3, 2005 

Case 3:04-cv-00281-JSW Document 104 Filed 06/03/2005 Page 1 of 6

AND ORDER THEREON

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Case No. C04-0281-JSW ADMIN. REQUEST FOR LEAVE TO FILE 

JOINT CMC IN EXCESSOF 15 PAGES 

MORRIS J. BALLER (SB# 048928) 

ROBERTA L. STEELE (SB# 188198) 

NINA RABIN (SB# 229403) 

GOLDSTEIN, DEMCHAK, BALLER, 

BORGEN & DARDARIAN 

300 Lakeside Dr., Suite 1000 

Oakland, CA 94612 

Telephone: (510) 763-9800 

Facsimile: (510) 835-1417 

PAUL STRAUSS (SB# 153937) 

ROBERT S. LIBMAN (SB# 139283) 

NANCY MALDONADO 

MINER, BARNHILL & GALLAND 

14 W. Erie Street 

Chicago, IL 60610 

Telephone: (312) 751-1170 

Facsimile: (312) 751-0438 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs ROBERT RAMIREZ, et al. 

PHILIP SKLOVER 

BARBARA DOUGHERTY 

ROBERT UNITAS 

ERICA WHITE-DUNSTON 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION 

1801 L Street, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20507 

Phone: (202) 663-4768 

Fax: (202) 663-4196 

Attorneys for Plaintiff-Intervenor 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION 

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Case No. C04-0281-JSW -1- ADMIN. REQUEST FOR LEAVE TO FILE 

JOINT CMC IN EXCESSOF 15 PAGES 

Plaintiffs Robert Ramirez, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenor Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission, and Defendant Cintas Corporation jointly submit this 

Administrative Request to file the Joint Case Management Conference Statement 

submitted herewith. That Statement is 24 pages long (including two pages of signature 

blocks). As grounds for this Request, the parties jointly submit the following: 

1. Under this Court’s Order Setting Case Management Conference and Requiring 

Joint Case Management Conference Statement entered January 27, 2004 (“January 27 Order”), 

Statements are limited to twelve (12) pages in length. 

2. In this case, the parties jointly filed a Stipulation and [Proposed] Order to file a 

Case Management Conference Statement in excess of twelve pages. On May 31, 2005, the Court 

entered an Order permitting the filing of a Statement with an additional three pages, and stated 

that “if additional pages are required, the parties must provide more detail.” This Request does 

that. 

3. The parties have diligently attempted to draft their Joint Statement as concisely as 

possible in an effort to meet the limitation imposed by the Court’s May 31, 2005 Order. 

However, the parties have found it not to be possible to draft a Statement of fifteen (15) pages 

that adequately and properly covers the topics required to be addressed by the Court’s January 27 

Order and Northern District of California Local Rules 16-9(a) and (b), in this case, for the reasons 

stated below. 

4. This case is a brought as a complex, nationwide class action raising a large number 

of factual issues and legal claims based on a number of allegedly discriminatory employment 

practices by Cintas against the ten named Plaintiffs and a class. Various issues of race, national 

origin, and gender discrimination are raised on behalf of various of the named Plaintiffs and class 

members under four different federal and state statutes. 

5. The case is procedurally complex as well, even at this early stage. Several 

stipulations and orders relating to the scope of the action and the enforceability of arbitration 

agreements signed by some but not all of the original plaintiffs have already been entered. 

Related arbitration proceedings have been commenced. In addition to the original parties, the 

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Case No. C04-0281-JSW -2- ADMIN. REQUEST FOR LEAVE TO FILE 

JOINT CMC IN EXCESSOF 15 PAGES 

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has intervened. There is another pending action 

based on similar allegations of gender discrimination by Cintas pending in another District Court. 

Plaintiffs’ counsel will soon file another action in this Court raising related but not identical 

issues to those in this case. Both the EEOC and the Plaintiffs have filed, or intend to file, further 

amended complaints. 

6. All of these substantive and procedural matters must be and are at least briefly 

discussed in the Joint Case Management Conference Statement submitted herewith. Necessarily, 

this information requires a considerable amount of description in the Statement. 

7. In addition, the parties anticipate a long and complex discovery process, agree to 

bifurcation into pre- and post-class certification motion stages, and have had extensive 

discussions, and reached substantial agreement, on how that discovery should be conducted and 

limits and schedules applicable to the discovery. The parties desire that the discovery plan be 

embodied in a Court order, and have therefore included its details in the Statement as succinctly 

as possible. 

8. Because of the unusual amount of development of this case at the stage of the 

initial Case Management Conference, and the complexity of the issues and procedures involved, 

and in order to respond fully to the inquiries made or implicit in the Court’s Order specifying the 

contents of the Case Management Conference Statement, the parties have found it necessary to 

exceed fifteen (15) pages of text in order to present the requisite matters to the Court. The parties 

further believe that submission of these matters, in the level of detail embodied in their Joint 

Statement, will assist the Court in its management of the action, which all parties welcome. 

For these reasons, the parties jointly request the Court to allow the filing of the Statement 

submitted with this Administrative Request. 

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Case No. C04-0281-JSW -3- ADMIN. REQUEST FOR LEAVE TO FILE 

JOINT CMC IN EXCESSOF 15 PAGES 

DATED: June 3, 2005 Respectfully submitted, 

By: /s/ 

Morris J. Baller 

Roberta L. Steele 

Nina Rabin 

GOLDSTEIN, DEMCHAK, BALLER, BORGEN & 

DARDARIAN 

300 Lakeside Drive, Suite 1000 

Oakland, CA 94611 

Phone: (510) 763-9800 

Fax: (510) 835-1417 

 Paul Strauss 

Robert S. Libman 

Nancy Maldonado 

MINER, BARNHILL & GALLAND 

14 W. Erie Street 

Chicago, IL 60610 

Phone: (312) 751-1170 

Fax: (312) 751-0438 

Counsel for Plaintiffs Robert Ramirez, et al.

DATED: June 3, 2005 

By: /s/ 

Robert D. Unitas 

Erica White-Dunston 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

1801 L Street, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20507 

Phone: (202) 663-4768 

Fax: (202) 663-4196 

Counsel for Plaintiff-Intervenor EEOC 

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Case No. C04-0281-JSW -4- ADMIN. REQUEST FOR LEAVE TO FILE 

JOINT CMC IN EXCESSOF 15 PAGES 

DATED: June 3, 2005 

By: /s/ 

Nancy L. Abell 

Mark W. Atkinson 

Heather A. Morgan 

Joseph W. Deng 

PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLP 

515 South Flower Street, 25th Floor 

Los Angeles, CA 90071-2228 

Phone: (213) 683-6000 

Fax: (213) 627-0705 

Counsel for Defendant Cintas Corporation

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June 10, 2005

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