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Nature of Suit Code: 195
Nature of Suit: Contract Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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STIP. ADMIN. MOT. FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED PAGE LIMIT FOR ATTACHMENTS; [PROPOSED] ORDER

William A. Kershaw (State Bar No. 057486) 

Email: wkershaw@kcrlegal.com 

Stuart C. Talley (State Bar No. 180374) 

Email: stalley@kcrlegal.com 

Ian J. Barlow (State Bar No. 262213) 

Email: ibarlow@kcrlegal.com 

KERSHAW, CUTTER & RATINOFF LLP 

401 Watt Avenue 

Sacramento, California 95864 

Telephone: (916) 448-9800 

Facsimile: (916) 669-4499 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

MONITA SHARMA and ERIC 

ANDERSON, on behalf of themselves 

and all others similarly situated, 

Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

BMW OF NORTH AMERICA, LLC, a 

Delaware Limited Liability Company, 

 Defendant. 

Case No. 3:13-cv-02274-MMC (KAW) 

STIPULATED ADMINISTRATIVE 

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED 

PAGE LIMIT FOR ATTACHMENTS 

RELATED TO DISCOVERY LETTER 

BRIEFS; AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

Magistrate Judge Kandis A. Westmore 

Pursuant to Northern District of California Civil Local Rules 7-11 and 7-12, Plaintiffs 

Monita Sharma and Eric Anderson (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendant BMW of North America, LLC 

(“BMW NA” or “Defendant”), by and through their respective attorneys, hereby stipulate as 

follows: 

STIPULATION

WHEREAS, the parties previously filed three joint discovery letter briefs (Dkt. Nos. 110, 

111 and 113), which were terminated after the parties “failed to propose a compromise in their 

filings, . . . .” (Order Terminating Discovery Letter Briefs (Dkt. No. 114)); 

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WHEREAS, the parties have extensively met and conferred and exchanged final proposed 

compromises pursuant to this Court’s Order Terminating Discovery Letter Briefs, but were 

unable to reach agreements, including on discovery disputes regarding: (1) BMW NA’s further 

responses and production of documents related to the design, manufacturing and testing for 

putative class vehicles; and (2) the limited scope of BMW NA’s discovery responses; 

WHEREAS, the parties have included proposed compromises in the respective sections of 

their discovery letter briefs pursuant to this Court’s Order Terminating Discovery Letter Briefs; 

WHEREAS, as with the parties’ initial filings, two of the impending joint discovery letter 

briefs involve disputes that relate to several interrogatories and requests for production of 

documents and, for purposes of economy and judicial efficiency, the parties have structured their 

letter briefs so that they separately address a single overarching issue as opposed to filing multiple 

joint discovery letter briefs based on the same issue. For example, the parties’ discovery dispute 

regarding “design and manufacturing” documents and responses encompasses twenty-two 

separate document requests and eleven interrogatory responses, and the parties’ “discovery 

scope” dispute encompasses twenty separate document requests and eleven interrogatory 

responses;1

WHEREAS, the Standing Order for Magistrate Judge Westmore was revised on 

December 22, 2015, after the parties filed their initial joint discovery letter briefs, and now 

requires that “[a]ny attachments shall not exceed 12 pages.” (Standing Order for Magistrate 

Judge Westmore ¶ 13); and 

WHEREAS, the parties were able to present these overarching disputes in joint letters that 

do not exceed five pages (as required by the Court’s Standing Order), because the parties are 

required to attach the propounded discovery and applicable responses as exhibits to the joint 

discovery letters (id.) and two of their joint letters relate to a single issue that involves several 

discovery requests, they are unable to fully comply with the page limitation for attachments. 

 

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 The parties’ joint discovery letter brief regarding BMW NA’s document retention policies relates to a 

single document request and was filed on February 29, 2016. (Dkt. No. 130.) 

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(See, e.g., Dkt. Nos. 111-1, 111-2, 111-4); 

NOW, THEREFORE, undersigned counsel for the parties, having met and conferred and 

good cause appearing, hereby stipulate and agree to extend the page limit for attachments to two 

of their joint discovery letter briefs as follows: 

1. Joint Discovery Letter Re: Manufacturing Documents and Responses: Exhibit C (33 

pages); Exhibit D (16 pages); and Exhibit F (26 pages); and 

2. Joint Discovery Letter Re: Limited Scope of Discovery Responses: Exhibit A (29 

pages); Exhibit B (19 pages); and Exhibit D (16 pages).

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED. 

Dated: March 1, 2016. KERSHAW, CUTTER, & RATINOFF, LLP 

By: /s/ William A. Kershaw 

WILLIAM A. KERSHAW 

Stuart C. Talley 

Ian J. Barlow 

401 Watt Avenue 

Sacramento, California 95864 

Telephone: (916) 448-9800 

Facsimile: (916) 669-4499 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Dated: March 1, 2016. SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS LLP 

By: /s/ Eric J. Knapp 

ERIC J. KNAPP 

Troy M. Yoshino 

Aengus H. Carr 

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 400 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 989-5900 

Facsimile: (415) 989-0932 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Civil L.R. 5-1(i) Certification 

The filing attorney hereby certifies that concurrence in the filing of the document has been 

obtained from each of the other signatories, in full accordance with Civil Local Rule 5-1(i).

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ______________________ _______________________________ 

 Honorable Kandis A. Westmore 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

3/7/16

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