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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-(Citizenship)

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STIP. AND [PROP.] ORDER MODIFYING CLASS 

CERTIFICATION SCHEDULE 

CASE NO. 14-CV-00173-SC

Robert A. Mittelstaedt (State Bar No. 60359) 

ramittelstaedt@JonesDay.com 

Caroline N. Mitchell (State Bar No. 143124) 

cnmitchell@JonesDay.com 

JONES DAY 

555 California Street, 26th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: 415.626.3939 

Facsimile: 415.875.5700 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CHEVRON CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

FOSTER OGOLA, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

CHEVRON CORPORATION, 

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-00173-SC 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER MODIFYING SCHEDULE 

FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION 

MOTION 

WHEREAS, the Second Amended Complaint named six individual plaintiffs and a 

proposed class consisting of 65,000 individuals throughout Bayelsa State, Nigeria; 

WHEREAS, the parties agreed in their joint CMC statement (ECF No. 63) to limit the 

first phase of discovery to disputed issues relevant to class certification and agreed to a schedule 

for class certification briefing, which the Court so ordered (ECF No. 69); 

WHEREAS, plaintiffs’ counsel has advised that their retained experts are investigating 

which named plaintiffs and alleged class members have what plaintiffs’ counsel consider 

objectively sustainable claims and, based on that investigation, anticipate reducing the number of 

named plaintiffs and class members and/or the scope of the proposed class; 

WHEREAS, as a result of this development, plaintiffs desire additional time to prepare 

their class certification motion and recognize that defendant should be given additional time for 

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further investigation and discovery thereafter; 

Accordingly, the parties, by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby 

stipulate as follows, subject to this Court’s approval: 

1. June 1, 2015 will be the deadline for plaintiffs’ counsel to file the appropriate 

pleadings for the purpose of limiting the currently identified lead plaintiffs and/or prospective 

class members to those deemed by plaintiffs’ counsel to have sustainable claims. If plaintiffs 

intend to narrow the definition of the class from the description in the CMC Statement filed 

January 23, 2015, they shall do so in an appropriate pleading by June 1, 2015. 

2. By June 1, 2015, plaintiffs shall also serve Rule 26-compliant reports and other 

required materials for any expert that they intend to use to support their class certification motion, 

subject to timely supplementation. All such supplemental reports and materials will be provided 

to counsel for defendant as and when received and before filing of plaintiffs’ class certification 

motion. 

3. The parties shall use their best efforts to agree on dates for the named plaintiffs’ 

depositions and independent medical examinations to occur in San Francisco between June 1, 

2015 and the date that plaintiffs’ class certification motion is due. 

4. Plaintiffs’ class certification motion and supporting materials are due on 

November 9, 2015. 

5. The depositions of declarants in support of plaintiffs’ motion, to the extent not 

taken previously, shall be taken between November 9, 2015 and February 10, 2016. 

6. Defendant’s opposition to plaintiffs’ motion and supporting materials are due on 

February 26, 2016. 

7. At plaintiffs’ option, the depositions of declarants in support of defendant’s 

opposition shall be taken between February 26, 2016 and April 15, 2016 at mutually agreeable 

times and locations. 

8. Plaintiffs’ reply in support of their motion is due April 25, 2016. 

9. The parties shall meet and confer on any other class certification-related discovery 

and present any disputes to the Court at the appropriate time. 

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10. The dates set forth in this stipulation and order supersede the dates in the Court’s 

order dated February 4, 2015. 

Dated: March 12, 2015 Jones Day 

By: /s/ Robert A. Mittelstaedt 

Robert A. Mittelstaedt 

Counsel for Defendant 

CHEVRON CORPORATION 

Dated: March 12, 2015 Rufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham LLP 

By: /s/ Neil Fraser 

Neil Fraser 

Counsel for Plaintiffs 

FOSTER OGOLA, ET AL. 

Pursuant to Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I, Robert A. Mittelstaedt, attest that concurrence in filing 

this document has been obtained from the other signatory. 

PURSUANT TO THIS STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ________________ _____________________________ 

 The Honorable Samuel Conti 

03/18/2015 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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Judge Samuel Conti

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