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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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DREYER’S RESPONSES TO PLAINTIFFS’ FIRST SET OF INTERROGATORIES; CASE NO. C11-0290 EMC

CONSOLIDATED WITH C11-3164 EMC

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MAYER BROWN LLP

Dale J. Giali (Cal. Bar No. 150382)

dgiali@mayerbrown.com

Keri E. Borders (Cal. Bar. No. 194015)

kborders@mayerbrown.com

Rebecca B. Johns (Cal. Bar. No. 293989)

rjohns@mayerbrown.com

350 South Grand Avenue

25th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90071-1503

Telephone: (213) 229-9500

Facsimile: (213) 625-0248

Attorneys for Defendant

VAN’S INTERNATIONAL FOODS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

DANA RHINERSON, and AIDIN MORADI,

individually, and on behalf of all others

similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

VAN’S INTERNATIONAL FOODS, d/b/a

Vans Natural Foods,

Defendants.

Lead Case No. 3:13-cv-05923-VC

Case No.: 3:15-cv-01509-VC

Case No.: 3:15-cv-01723-VC

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER TO DEEM DEFENDANT

VAN’S INTERNATIONAL FOOD’S

ANSWER TO PLAINTIFFS’

COMPLAINT APPLICABLE TO

PLAINTIFFS’ FIRST AMENDED

CONSOLIDATED COMPLAINT

PATRICIA CAMPBELL, an individual, on her

own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly

situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

VAN’S INTERNATIONAL FOODS, INC., an

Arizona corporation,

Defendants.

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GREGORY FREI, individually and on behalf of

all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

VAN’S INTERNATIONAL FOODS, INC., a

California Corporation,

Defendants.

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 7-12, plaintiffs and Defendant Van’s International Foods

(“Van’s”), by and through their attorneys of record, stipulate as follows:

WHEREAS, on July 16, 2014, Van’s filed an Answer to plaintiffs’ Complaint. ECF No.

54.

WHEREAS, on October 22, 2014, plaintiffs filed a First Amended Complaint solely to

correct Van’s legal name to not contain the entity designation “Inc.” ECF No. 67.

WHEREAS, on November 25, 2014, Van’s filed a Stipulation to Deem Answer

Applicable to First Amended Complaint. ECF No. 68.

WHEREAS, on June 29, 2015, plaintiffs in the three above-captioned actions filed a First

Amended Consolidated Complaint, virtually identical to the First Amended Complaint filed on

October 22, 2014. See ECF No. 89.

WHEREAS, counsel for both Parties met and conferred with respect to Van’s Answer to

the First Amended Consolidated Complaint.

WHEREAS, both parties agreed that Van’s previously filed Answer should be deemed to

apply to plaintiffs’ First Amended Consolidated Complaint.

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between the Parties,

through their respective counsel of record, as follows:

1. Defendant Van’s International Foods (Van’s) shall not be required to answer

plaintiffs’ First Amended Consolidated Complaint, filed on June 29, 2015, at ECF No. 89. In

addition, all denials, responses, and affirmative defenses contained in Van’s Answer, filed on

July 16, 2014, at ECF No. 54, shall be deemed to be Van’s denials, responses, and affirmative

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defenses to the First Amended Consolidated Complaint.

2. In particular, Van’s Answer to paragraphs 1 through 8 of the Complaint shall be

deemed to answer paragraphs 1 through 11 of the First Amended Consolidated Complaint.

Van’s Answer to paragraphs 9 through 123 of the Complaint shall be deemed to answer

paragraphs 12 through 126 of the First Amended Consolidated Complaint. Van’s Answer to

paragraphs 124 through 125 of the Complaint shall be deemed to answer paragraph 127 of the

First Amended Consolidated Complaint. Van’s Answer to paragraphs 126 through relief sought

in the Complaint shall be deemed to respond to paragraphs 128 through relief sought in the First

Amended Consolidated Complaint.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: July 7, 2015 MAYER BROWN LLP

By: /s/ Keri E. Borders

Keri E. Borders

Attorneys for Defendant

Van’s International Foods

Dated: July 7, 2015 SCOTT COLE & ASSOCIATES, APC

By: /s/ Christopher B. Johnson

Christopher B. Johnson

Attorneys for Representative Plaintiffs

and the Plaintiff Classes

ATTESTATION

I, Keri E. Borders, hereby attest, pursuant to N.D. Cal. Local Rule 5-1(i)(3) that

concurrence to the filing of this document has been obtained from each signatory.

By: /s/ Keri E. Borders

Keri E. Borders

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: _____________________________________

HON. VINCE CHHABRIA

United States District Judge

July 9, 2015

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