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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT - 1 

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Steve W. Berman, (pro hac vice)

Catherine Y.N. Gannon (pro hac vice)

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

1918 Eighth Avenue, Suite 3300 

Seattle, WA 98101 

Telephone: (206) 623-7292 

Facsimile: (206) 623-0594 

steve@hbsslaw.com 

catherineg@hbsslaw.com 

Jeff D. Friedman (CSB No. 173886) 

Shana E. Scarlett (CSB No. 217895) 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

715 Hearst Avenue, Suite 202 

Berkeley, CA 94710 

Telephone: (510) 725-3000 

Facsimile: (510) 725-3001 

jefff@hbsslaw.com 

shanas@hbsslaw.com 

Plaintiffs’ Interim Co-Lead Counsel 

[Additional Counsel listed on Signature Page]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

IN RE 

MYFORD TOUCH CONSUMER 

LITIGATION 

No. 3-13-cv-3072-EMC

JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT 

STATEMENT 

Date: August 14, 2014 

Time: 10:30 A.M. 

Courtroom: 5, 17th Floor 

Judge: Hon. Edward M. Chen 

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I. INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 

Pursuant to the Court’s Minute Entry (Dkt. No. 99) and the Standing Order for 

all Judges of the Northern District of California, counsel for the parties respectfully 

submit this Updated Joint Case Management Statement. This is the fifth Case 

Management Statement; four previous statements were filed with the Court on 

October 3, 2013 (Dkt. No. 33); January 16, 2014 (Dkt. No. 58); April 17, 2014 (Dkt. 

No. 82); and June 5, 2014 (Dkt. No. 98). This Updated Joint Case Management 

Statement is intended to inform the Court on the status of the pleadings and discovery, 

and to request a postponement of the case management conference by sixty (60) days 

until October 14, 2014. 

II. JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT 

A. Motions 

On January 13, 2014 Ford filed its Motion to Dismiss (Dkt. No. 56). Plaintiffs 

filed a Memorandum in Opposition on February 21, 2014 (Dkt. No. 69) and Ford filed 

its Reply on March 14, 2014 (Dkt. No. 72). On May 30, 2014 this Court rendered a 

decision granting in part and denying in part Ford’s Motion to Dismiss (Dkt. No. 97). 

Plaintiffs will not amend the First Amended Complaint (FAC) and will proceed based 

on the surviving claims. On June 16, 2014, Plaintiff Megan Raney-Aarons filed a 

notice of voluntarily dismissal (Dkt. No. 100). Defendant Ford filed an Answer to the 

FAC on July 18, 2014 (Dkt. No. 106). 

III. STATUS OF DISCOVERY 

As previously reported (see Dkt. No. 98), the parties participated in a Rule 26(f) 

conference and exchanged their initial disclosures, pursuant to Rule 26(a). 

A. Production Agreements 

The parties have agreed upon the format of production, including Electronically 

Stored Information (“ESI”) protocols. The parties have also negotiated a general 

protective order, which this Court ordered on May 16, 2014 (Dkt. No. 96). The parties 

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are in the final phases of negotiating a second protective order that would pertain to 

highly confidential information, such as source code data. 

B. Productions 

Ford has so far produced more than 437,500 pages of emails and documents 

from 13 custodians and more than 246,000 pages of documents from Ford’s warranty 

reimbursement and technical contact databases. Ford will continue its rolling 

production. To date, Ford has made the following productions: 

• Documents pertaining to the named Plaintiffs’ vehicles and warranty 

history (04/03/2014); 

• Showroom brochures, owners’ manuals, and warranty guides 

(04/15/2014); 

• Additional showroom brochures, owners’ manuals, and warranty guides, 

as well as print/video advertising (5/22/2014); 

• Special Service Messages and Technical Service Bulletins (5/27/2014); 

• Email and other documents maintained by Document Custodian J. Bragg 

(5/30/2014); 

• Email and other documents maintained by Document Custodian B. Krein 

(6/5/2014); 

• Email and other documents maintained by Document Custodian S. 

Parsons (6/13/2014); 

• Email and other documents maintained by Document Custodian R. 

Englert (7/3/2014); 

• Ford warranty reimbursement records/data (AWS reports) and technical 

contacts (CQIS reports) (6/19/2014 and 7/16/2014); 

• Email and other documents maintained by Document Custodians N. 

Gabrielli and M. Schanerberger (7/22/2014); and 

• Email and other documents maintained by Document Custodians H. 

Ahmed; K. Christianson; H. Elzein; F. Frischmuth; M. Fromman; K. 

Goebel; J. Green (8/5/2014). 

Since June 5, 2014 Plaintiffs have made two productions in response to Ford’s 

discovery requests. The first production was made on June 27, 2014 and the second 

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production was made on July 29, 2014. A third production is scheduled for August 

2014 and Plaintiffs will continue to make supplemental productions as soon as 

practicable. Non-Party, Microsoft Corporation, also made a production on June 24, 

2014. 

On July 28, 2014 Plaintiff Avedisian served his Supplemental Responses and 

Objections to Ford’s First Set of Interrogatories. Plaintiffs also informed Ford on July 

28, 2014 that Plaintiffs Zuchowksi, Battle and Ervin intend to serve interrogatory 

responses as soon as practicable. For various personal reasons, Plaintiffs have not been 

able to locate information responsive to all of Ford’s discovery requests. Plaintiffs 

have stated that they intend to produce these interrogatory responses by August 31, 

2014. 

C. Plaintiffs’ Second Set of Requests for Production 

On February 26, 2014, Plaintiffs served Ford with a Second Set of Requests for 

Production of Documents. The documents requested relate to press reports suggesting 

that Ford will base the next generation of MFT systems on Blackberry’s QNX 

software, and include any communications with Blackberry regarding the Microsoftbased MFT system, as well as, any documents that reflect key differences in properties 

between Blackberry’s QNX and Microsoft’s MFT systems. On April 1, 2014 Ford 

served its Responses and Objections to Plaintiffs’ Second Set of Requests for 

Production of Documents. On May 27, 2014 Ford communicated that it intends to 

stand on its objections of relevancy and burden, but will make an effort to keep 

looking for responsive documents. Plaintiffs continue to believe that the Second Set of 

Requests for Production of Documents seeks relevant documents that the collection 

and production of which would impose no unusual burden upon Ford. Ford does not 

believe that the documents sought are relevant because they seek information 

concerning Ford’s on-going commercial and business relationships with its suppliers 

pertaining to future model year vehicles and technology that is not installed in any 

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current Ford or Lincoln production vehicle, nor is it installed in any putative Subject 

Vehicle. The parties have met and conferred in person and multiple times by telephone 

and email. Unfortunately, however, the parties have been unable to resolve this issue 

at this time. While the parties are hopeful that an agreement will be reached soon, they 

also anticipate that motion practice may be required to resolve this dispute. 

D. Vehicle Inspection Protocol 

The parties are in the final phases of negotiating a Vehicle Inspection Protocol 

which shall apply to any and all Class Vehicles owned or leased by any Named 

Plaintiff in this action at the time the Protocol is executed. 

The parties will continue to work cooperatively to ensure the efficient and 

timely exchange of documents and do not believe there are any disputes that require 

the Court’s assistance at this time. 

IV. POSTPONEMENT OF CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

As noted above, the parties are nearing an agreement regarding the production 

of highly confidential information, such as source code data. Experts will then be 

provided with an opportunity to review this type of information and their findings will 

provide considerable guidance to all parties regarding the scheduling of a full motion 

and trial schedule. As such, all parties request postponing the Case Management 

Conference by sixty (60) days, to October 14, 2014 on the grounds of prematurity. All 

parties anticipate that they will be able to provide the Court with a full discovery and 

trial schedule by October 2014. 

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DATED: August 7, 2014 HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

By /s/ Steve W. Berman 

Steve W. Berman (pro hac vice) 

Catherine Y.N. Gannon (pro hac vice) 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

1918 8th Avenue, Suite 3300 

Seattle, WA 98101 

Telephone: (206) 623-7292 

Facsimile: (206) 623-0594 

steve@hbsslaw.com 

 catherineg@hbsslaw.com 

Jeff D. Friedman (173886) 

Shana E. Scarlett (217895) 

715 Hearst Avenue, Suite 202 

Berkeley, CA 94710 

Telephone: (510) 725-3000 

Facsimile: (510) 725-3001 

jefff@hbsslaw.com 

shanas@hbsslaw.com 

Adam J. Levitt (pro hac vice) 

 Kyle McGee (pro hac vice) 

GRANT & EISENHOFER P.A. 

30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1200 

Chicago, IL 60602 

Telephone: (312) 214-0000 

Facsimile: (312) 214-0001 

alevitt@gelaw.com 

Roland Tellis (186269) 

Mark Pifko (228412) 

BARON & BUDD, P.C. 

15910 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 1600 

Encino, CA 91436 

Telephone: (818) 839-2320 

Facsimile: (818) 986-9698 

rtellis@baronbudd.com 

mpifko@baronbudd.com 

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Joseph G. Sauder (pro hac vice) 

Matthew D. Schelkopf (pro hac vice) 

CHIMICLES & TIKELLIS LLP 

One Haverford Centre 

361 West Lancaster Avenue 

Haverford, PA 19041 

Telephone: (610) 642-8500 

Facsimile: (610) 649-3633 

JGS@chimicles.com 

Plaintiffs’ Interim Co-Lead Counsel 

Randall W. Edwards (179053) 

O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

Two Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3823 

Telephone: (415) 984-8700 

Facsimile: (415) 984-8701 

redwards@omm.com 

Janet. L. Conigliaro (pro hac vice)

DYKEMA GOSSETT PLLC 

400 Renaissance Center 

Detroit, Michigan 48243 

Telephone: (313) 568-5372 

Jconigliaro@Dykema.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY 

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ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 5-1(i)(3) 

I, Steve W. Berman, am the ECF User whose identification and password are 

being used to file the foregoing document. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-

1(i)(3), I hereby attest that all signatories have concurred in this filing. 

Dated: August 7, 2014 

 /s/ Steve W. Berman 

Steve W. Berman 

 

IT IS SO ORDERED that the Further CMC is reset from 8/14/14 to 

10/16/14 at 10:30 a.m. An updated joint CMC Statement due 10/9/14. 

_____________________ 

Edward M. Chen 

U.S. District Judge 

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

 I hereby certify the on August 7, 2014, I electronically filed the foregoing 

document using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the 

email addresses registered in the CM/ECF system, as denoted on the Electronic Mail 

Notice List, and I hereby certify that I have caused to be mailed a paper copy of the 

foregoing document via the United States Postal Service to the non-CM/ECF 

participants indicated on the Manual Notice List generated by the CM/ECF system. 

Dated: August 7, 2014 

 /s/ Steve W. Berman 

Steve W. Berman 

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