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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 29:201 Fair Labor Standards Act

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FURTHER CONTINUING DEADLINES FOR CLASS 

CERTIFICATION HEARING AND MEDIATION 

Booker, et al. v. Glotel, et al.; Case No. C 05 4795 CW 

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LAW OFFICES OF 

JARED E. PETERSON

2017 LINCOLN STREET

BERKELEY, CA 94709 

(510) 841-4462 

Jared E. Peterson (State Bar No. 49700) 

LAW OFFICES OF JARED E. PETERSON 

2017 Lincoln Street 

Berkeley, California 94709 

Telephone: (510) 841-4462 

Facsimile: (510) 841-4464 

James B. Nebel (State Bar No. 69626) 

FLYNN, DELICH & WISE LLP 

One California Street, Suite 350 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 693-5566 

Facsimile: (415) 693-0410 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 

NATE BOOKER, ALBERT JOHNSON and KELVIN DUBOSE 

Denis F. Shanagher (State Bar No. 100222) 

LUCE, FORWARD, HAMILTON & SCRIPPS LLP 

121 Spear Street, Suite 200 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 356-4600 

Facsimile: (415) 356-4610 

Attorneys for Defendant, 

GLOTEL, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

NATE BOOKER, ALBERT JOHNSON and 

KELVIN DUBOSE, on behalf of 

themselves and those similarly 

situated, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

GLOTEL, INC.; et al., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No.: C 05 4795 CW 

AMENDED STIPULATION AND ORDER 

FURTHER CONTINUING DEADLINES FOR 

HEARING CLASS CERTIFICATION 

MOTION AND FOR MEDIATION 

CLASS ACTION 

Honorable Claudia Wilken 

Courtroom No. 2

 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FURTHER CONTINUING DEADLINES FOR CLASS 

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LAW OFFICES OF 

JARED E. PETERSON

2017 LINCOLN STREET

BERKELEY, CA 94709 

(510) 841-4462 

 The parties, through their respective counsel, hereby 

stipulate, subject to the Court’s approval, that the December 1, 

2006 deadlines for hearing the motion for class certification and 

for completion of mediation of this action shall be continued and 

rescheduled. The motion shall now be timely filed for hearing to 

be held on April 20, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. The parties shall also 

schedule private mediation to be completed before that date. The 

basis for the continuance and re-scheduling is as follows: 

1. This is the second request that the parties have made 

to continue the deadlines for hearing of the class certification 

motion and for mediation. On August 15, 2006, the parties 

submitted a stipulation that attempted to vacate the deadlines to 

be re-set 90 days after defendant Glotel, Inc. (“Glotel”) 

completed its document production and responded to plaintiffs’ 

interrogatories. The Court granted a continuance but on modified 

terms, rescheduling the motion date and mediation deadline and 

also continuing a Case Management Conference, setting each for 

December 1, 2006. 

2. The parties are cooperating in conducting discovery in 

this matter and both sides are eager to place the case in a 

position to conduct a meaningful mediation session as early as 

possible. Despite some progress, the difficulties that motivated 

the parties to seek a continuance of more than 90 days in August, 

2006, remain and, in the view of counsel for both parties, 

necessitate the further continuance that the parties now seek. 

(The paragraphs that follow are set forth from the plaintiffs’ 

perspective. Glotel agrees that a continuance is necessary, but 

does not necessarily concur with each factor that the plaintiffs 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FURTHER CONTINUING DEADLINES FOR CLASS 

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BERKELEY, CA 94709 

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set forth in the manner in which they have set forth those 

factors). 

3. Since the parties last approached the Court, Glotel has 

produced additional documents. In addition, plaintiffs noticed 

the deposition of Glotel, pursuant to Rule 30(b)(6) of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The notice of the deposition 

sought the designation of a witness or witnesses on 17 subjects. 

Typical of the description of the subject areas is the following: 

... Glotel’s compensation policies and guidelines 

regarding the payment of overtime wages, to workers 

such as plaintiffs, who worked for Glotel or its 

clients or customers “in the telecommunications 

industry” from November 29, 2001 to the present;... 

In response to the notice, on September 27, 2006, Glotel 

produced for deposition Daniel Ceko, its current Director of 

Administration. Mr. Ceko has been employed by Glotel since 

January, 2005. During the deposition, among other things, Mr. 

Ceko: 1) confirmed that Glotel had relocated its headquarters 

from Boston to Chicago in April, 2005, and that pertinent 

employment and personnel records prior to the time of the 

relocation were in storage somewhere in Boston; 2) related that 

the while they have located and produced earning statement 

summaries that pre-dated the relocation, Glotel has not been able 

to locate time cards for periods prior to 2005; 3) testified that 

while he is now the person responsible within Glotel for managing 

the company’s compensation policies, he does not know who had 

that responsibility within the company prior to 2005; and 4) 

confirmed that Glotel’s current manager of Human Resources had 

only been with the company since sometime in 2004. 

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 4. The plaintiffs submit that difficulty on the part of 

Glotel in locating documents prior to 2005, the relocation of the 

companies headquarters and the fact that personnel who may have 

information relating to the company’s compensation policies prior 

to 2005 are no longer with the company has made it difficult to 

compile information that will bear directly on the issues 

encompassed by the class certification motion. Counsel for 

plaintiffs will continue to press for the documents and 

information that apparently exist but which have been difficult 

to locate. At the same time, counsel intends to contact and 

interview additional absent class members to obtain some of this 

information. That process will require additional time. 

 For these reasons, the parties request the Court to approve 

this Stipulation and continue the hearing date for a class 

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BERKELEY, CA 94709 

(510) 841-4462 

certification motion and for a Case Management Conference to 

April 20, 2007 at 10:00 a.m., and to direct the parties to 

complete mediation by that same date. 

 

Dated: October 25, 2006 LAW OFFICES OF JARED E. PETERSON 

 FLYNN, DELICH & WISE LLP 

 By_________/S/________________ 

 James B. Nebel 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 

 NATE BOOKER, ALBERT JOHNSON 

 and KELVIN DUBOSE 

Dated: October 25, 2006 LUCE, FORWARD, HAMILTON 

 & SCRIPPS LLP 

 By_________/S/________________ 

 Denis F. Shanagher 

 Attorneys for Defendant, 

 GLOTEL, INC. 

ORDER

 1. The deadline for hearing the motion for class 

certification, set for December 1 2006, at 10:00 a.m., and the 

Case Management Conference set for that same date and time are 

is hereby continued and rescheduled for April 20, 2007 at 10:00 

a.m. 

 2. The deadline for mediating this action is extended to 

April 20, 2007. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 26, 2006 

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 United States District Court Judge 

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