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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Negotiable Instrument

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER DIRECTING Case No. 3:05-cv-38 EMC 

RE-NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND RE-SETTING DEADLINES 

LEONARD CARDER, LLP

ATTORNEYS

1330 BROADWAY, SUITE 1450

OAKLAND, CA 94612

TEL: (510) 272-0169 FAX: (510) 272-0174

BETH A. ROSS (SBN 141337) 

bross@leonardcarder.com 

AARON KAUFMANN (SBN 148580)

akaufmann@leonardcarder.com

DAVID P. POGREL (SBN 203787)

dpogrel@leonardcarder.com

ELIZABETH R. GROPMAN (SBN 294156)

egropman@leonardcarder.com

LEONARD CARDER, LLP

1330 Broadway, Suite 1450 

Oakland, California 94612 

Tel: (510) 272-0169 

Fax: (510) 272-0174 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

CAROLYN KUBOTA (SBN 113660) 

ckubota@omm.com

SCOTT VOELZ (SBN 181415) 

svoelz@omm.com 

O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP

400 South Hope Street 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Tel: (213) 430-6000 

Fax: (213) 430-6407 

Attorneys for Defendant 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

DEAN ALEXANDER, et. al. 

Plaintiffs,

vs.

FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM, INC. 

et. al., 

Defendant.

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Case No: 3:05-cv-38 EMC

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER DIRECTING 

RE-NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION 

SETTLEMENT AND RE-SETTING 

DEADLINES FOR THE FILING OF 

CLAIM FORMS, AND 

CHALLENGES, OBJECTIONS AND 

EXCLUSION REQUESTS, AND 

CONTINUING FINAL APPROVAL 

HEARING

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER DIRECTING Case No. 3:05-cv-38 EMC 

RE-NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND RE-SETTING DEADLINES 

LEONARD CARDER, LLP

ATTORNEYS

1330 BROADWAY, SUITE 1450

OAKLAND, CA 94612

TEL: (510) 272-0169 FAX: (510) 272-0174

The parties to this lawsuit, by and through their respective counsel, do hereby stipulate as 

follows: 

1) On November 16, 2015, the court-appointed settlement administrator, Rust 

Consulting, mailed the notice of the class settlement to members of the Plaintiff class 

in accordance with the schedule set out in the preliminary approval order entered on 

October 22, 2015. 

2) Both Plaintiffs’ counsel and Rust have received numerous calls from class members in 

response to the mailing that have brought to light errors with the mailing list supplied 

to Rust and the calculations underlying the estimated settlement payments described in 

the settlement packet. These include: 

a. The class mailing list supplied to Rust by plaintiffs’ counsel contained 

approximately 600 corrupted addresses resulting from an uploading error that 

came to light after the class notice mailed. 

b. The estimated settlement payments reflected in the claimant identification 

forms prepared for approximately 1021 of the 2016 class members were 

erroneously overstated primarily for two reasons: (1) there were duplicate 

entries in Defendant’s scanner data for several hundred class members which 

caused a doubling of their credited workweeks for portions of the class period; 

(2) the preliminary calculations assigned workweek credit to class members for 

all workweeks in which they were identified as a driver in the scanner data and 

erroneously included weeks before they became contractors or after their 

contracts terminated.

c. The estimated settlement payments reflected in the claimant identification 

forms for 83 class members who contracted with Defendant in its Home 

Delivery service prior to January 2001 are under-stated because the scanner 

data supplied by Defendant for its Home Delivery service does not include the 

period November 17, 2000 to December 31, 2000 and an additional sum was 

not included in the preliminary calculation for this six week period. 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER DIRECTING Case No. 3:05-cv-38 EMC 

RE-NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND RE-SETTING DEADLINES 

LEONARD CARDER, LLP

ATTORNEYS

1330 BROADWAY, SUITE 1450

OAKLAND, CA 94612

TEL: (510) 272-0169 FAX: (510) 272-0174

d. The effect of the recalculation will cause a redistribution of approximately $7 

million dollars of class settlement fund that will increase the estimated pro rata 

settlement shares of some class members and decrease others. Some class 

members will receive significantly less than the initial estimate while, on 

average, estimated settlement shares of the 1021 class members will be 

reduced by approximately $6800. 

3) The parties agree that in order to provide class members with the most accurate 

information possible regarding their claims and the estimated settlement payments 

they may receive, and to give them the benefit of the full sixty day period to consider 

the terms of the settlement, file objections with the court, opt-out (if permitted) and 

file claims with the settlement administrator, the following should occur: (a) the notice 

period should be extended by approximately 4 weeks from January 16, 2016 to 

February 15, 2016 with the corrected notice mailed by the settlement administrator no 

later than December 14, 2015; (b) the final approval hearing on calendar for March 

24, 2016 should be rescheduled to a date no earlier than April 7, 2016; and (c) new 

notice should be provided to the entire class using corrected addresses where 

necessary and reflecting corrected calculations of estimated settlement payments. 

4) As of this filing, approximately 78 class members have submitted claims to the 

settlement administrator and claims will continue to be submitted prior to any 

remailing. The parties agree that all claims submitted to the settlement administrator 

prior to the remailing should be accepted by the settlement administrator and the Court 

with the understanding that the revised data will determine the estimated settlement 

payments for each class member. 

5) The parties agree that the corrected notice should be accompanied by a cover letter 

explaining the reason for the second notice, highlighting the material differences 

between the two notices – i.e. the extension of the claim filing and objection deadline 

to February 15, 2016 and the new hearing date of no earlier than April 7, 2016, and 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER DIRECTING Case No. 3:05-cv-38 EMC 

RE-NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND RE-SETTING DEADLINES 

LEONARD CARDER, LLP

ATTORNEYS

1330 BROADWAY, SUITE 1450

OAKLAND, CA 94612

TEL: (510) 272-0169 FAX: (510) 272-0174

explaining that all claims previously filed by class members will be honored. A copy 

of this proposed communication is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

6) All costs associated with the corrected notice procedure will be borne by Plaintiffs’ 

counsel. Plaintiffs’ counsel is confident that the issues discussed above have been 

appropriately addressed and that the recalculation of the estimated settlement shares 

represents the result of the best information possible. 

Respectfully submitted, 

LEONARD CARDER, LLP 

Dated: December 3, 2015 By: /s/ Beth A. Ross 

Beth A. Ross 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Plaintiff Class 

O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

Dated: December 3, 2015 By: /s/ Scott Voelz 

Carolyn Kubota 

Scott Voelz 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER DIRECTING Case No. 3:05-cv-38 EMC 

RE-NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND RE-SETTING DEADLINES 

LEONARD CARDER, LLP

ATTORNEYS

1330 BROADWAY, SUITE 1450

OAKLAND, CA 94612

TEL: (510) 272-0169 FAX: (510) 272-0174

ATTESTATION OF FILING 

Pursuant to Local Civil Rule 5-1(i)(3), I, Beth A. Ross, hereby attest that concurrence in 

the filing of this Stipulation has been obtained from each of the other signatories listed above. 

Dated: December 3, 2015 LEONARD CARDER, LLP

By: /s/ Beth A. Ross 

Beth A. Ross 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Plaintiff Class 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER DIRECTING Case No. 3:05-cv-38 EMC 

RE-NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND RE-SETTING DEADLINES 

LEONARD CARDER, LLP

ATTORNEYS

1330 BROADWAY, SUITE 1450

OAKLAND, CA 94612

TEL: (510) 272-0169 FAX: (510) 272-0174

ORDER 

Pursuant to stipulation of the parties and good cause appearing, the Court hereby 

ORDERS as follows: 

1. The January 16, 2016 deadline for class members to file claims with the 

Settlement Administrator, to file objections to the settlement, and, where applicable, to opt-out of 

the general class and/or the meal and rest period settlement subclass shall be extended to 

February 15, 2016. 

2. The final approval hearing scheduled for March 24, 2016 shall be continued to 

April 7, 2016. 

3. The Settlement Administrator is directed to send corrected notice packets to all 

members of the Alexander class no later than December 14, 2015 reflecting the extended 

February 15, 2016 deadline for the filing of claims, objections, and opt-outs, and the April 7, 

2016 final approval hearing accompanied by a cover letter in the form attached as Exhibit A 

hereto. 

DATED: December ___, 2015 _______________________________

Hon. Edward M. Chen 

U.S. District Judge 

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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Exhibit A 

Enclosed is a corrected Notice Packet relating to the class action settlement in Alexander v 

FedEx Ground Packages System, Inc. US District Court Northern District of California Case No. 

05-cv-0038 EMC. You are receiving this corrected Notice Packet for two reasons: (1) the 

November 16, 2015 mailing was inadvertently sent to a large number of incorrect addresses; and (2) 

the preliminary calculations on which the estimated settlement payments were based have been 

adjusted for accuracy. 

Whether this is the first notice you have received of the class action settlement, or whether 

you also received the notice packet mailed on November 16, 2015, please review the contents of 

the enclosed notice and claimant identification form and the instructions for filing claims, 

objections, requests for exclusion, and challenges to the preliminary payment calculations. All 

deadlines for these filings have been extended by the Court from January 15, 2016 to 

February 15, 2016 (see below). Additionally, the amount of your estimated pro rata settlement 

payment has changed. It will be higher or lower than the previous estimate. 

The reason for the extension is to provide all potential class members with a full sixty-day 

period to consider the terms of the settlement and decide how they wish to proceed. The new 

deadlines are: 

1) February 15, 2016: Deadline for filing Claimant Identification forms with 

Rust Consulting by U.S. Mail (postmarked) or on-line at www.alexander-vfedexground-settlement.com. 

2) February 15, 2016: Deadline for filing Challenge to amount of Estimated 

Settlement Share by U.S. Mail (postmarked) (challenges may not be filed on-line) 

3) February 15, 2016: Deadline for filing Requests for Exclusion from the class 

and/or the meal and rest break settlement subclass with the U.S. District Court by U.S. 

Mail (exclusion requests may not be filed on on-line) 

4) February 15, 2016: Deadline for filing Objections to Settlement and Notice of 

Intent to Appear at the Final Approval Hearing with the U.S. District Court by U.S. 

Mail (objections may not be filed on-line) 

Additionally, the Final Approval Hearing has been moved from March 24, 2016 to April 7, 2016. 

If you have already received and filed a Claimant Identification form and W-9 form with 

Rust Consulting, either by mail or on-line, you do not need to submit these documents 

again. However, the correct estimate of your estimated settlement payment is reflected in the 

enclosed packet and it is different than the earlier notice packet you may have received. If you are 

concerned about the status of your claim in any way, please don’t hesitate to submit the claimant 

identification and W-9 forms again. All valid claim forms that are filed by the February 15, 2016 

deadline will be accepted. 

If you have questions about any aspect of the settlement, please contact either Plaintiffs’ 

attorneys or Rust Consulting. Their contact information can be found in the enclosed notice. 

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