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Parties Involved:
Bumble Bee Foods, LLC
Defendant
Bumble Bee Seafoods, LLC
Defendant
Chicken of the Sea International
Defendant
King Oscar, Inc.
Defendant
Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Co., Inc.
Plaintiff
Starkist Company
Defendant
Tri-Union Seafoods, LLC
Defendant

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CERA LLP 

SOLOMON B. CERA (State Bar No. 99467) 

THOMAS C. BRIGHT (State Bar No. 169713) 

LOUIS A. KESSLER (State Bar No. 243703) 

595 Market Street, Suite 2300 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Tel: (415) 777-2230 

Fax: (415) 777-5189 

scera@cerallp.com 

tbright@cerallp.com 

lakessler@cerallp.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PIGGLY WIGGLY ALABAMA 

DISTRIBUTING CO., INC., on Behalf of 

Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

BUMBLE BEE FOODS, LLC, f/k/a 

BUMBLE BEE SEAFOODS, LLC; TRIUNION SEAFOODS, LLC, d/b/a 

CHICKEN OF THE SEA 

INTERNATIONAL; STARKIST 

COMPANY, and KING OSCAR, INC., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No.: 3:15-cv-03906-VC 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER EXTENDING DEFENDANTS’ 

TIME TO ANSWER, MOVE, OR 

OTHERWISE RESPOND TO THE 

COMPLAINT 

Plaintiff Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Co., Inc. and Defendants Bumble Bee 

Foods, LLC, Tri-Union Seafoods, LLC, King Oscar, Inc., and StarKist Co. (“Defendants”), 

(collectively the “Parties”), hereby stipulate to an extension of time for Defendants to move to 

dismiss, answer or otherwise respond to the complaint in the above-captioned action (the 

“Complaint”). 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed its Complaint on August 26, 2015; 

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WHEREAS Defendants agree to waive service of the Complaint in this action in 

exchange for an extension of Defendants’ time to move to dismiss, answer or otherwise respond 

to Plaintiff’s Complaint; 

WHEREAS, to date, 23 civil actions alleging antitrust violations in connection with the 

sale of packaged seafood products have been filed in federal district courts throughout the United 

States, including this action (the “Related Actions”); 

WHEREAS, a motion was filed before the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict 

Litigation (“JPML”), on August 28, 2015, seeking to transfer and centralize the Related Actions 

in a single federal district court (“Motion”); 

WHEREAS, responses to the Motion are due September 21, 2015, and the JPML has not 

yet set the Motion for hearing; 

WHEREAS, to economize both judicial and the Parties’ resources pending the JPML’s 

decision on the Motion, the Parties believe and agree that Defendants’ time to move to dismiss, 

answer, or otherwise respond to the Complaint should be extended until after the JPML has ruled 

on the pending Motion, it has been determined which court will preside over the Related 

Actions, and any consolidated amended complaint has been filed; 

ACCORDINGLY, the undersigned Parties, through their respective counsel of record, 

hereby stipulate and agree as follows: 

1. If the JPML transfers all Related Actions to a single district for coordinated or 

consolidated pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, the Defendants shall answer, 

move or otherwise respond to the then-operative complaint no later than 60 days after: (a) 

service of a consolidated amended complaint, or (b) service of written notice that plaintiffs will 

not file a consolidated amended complaint. 

2. If the JPML does not transfer all Related Actions to a single district, Defendants 

shall answer, move, or otherwise respond to the then-operative complaint no later than 60 days 

after service of the JPML ruling. 

3. The Parties agree that no defense is prejudiced or waived by submission of this 

Stipulation. 

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4. The parties agree that if Defendants answer, move or otherwise respond to a 

complaint filed in any other action alleging anticompetitive conduct concerning the marketing, 

sale, or distribution of packaged seafood products within Defendants’ time to answer, move, or 

otherwise respond to Plaintiff’s Complaint, Defendants will answer, move or otherwise respond 

to Plaintiff’s Complaint on the same day. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: September 15, 2015 CERA LLP 

By: /s/Solomon B. Cera 

Solomon B. Cera (State Bar No. 99467) 

Thomas C. Bright (State Bar No. 169713) 

Louis A. Kessler (State Bar No. 243703) 

595 Market Street, Suite 2300 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Tel: (415) 777-2230 

Fax: (415) 777-5189 

scera@cerallp.com 

tbright@cerallp.com 

lakessler@cerallp.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Dated: September 15, 2015 LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

By: /s/ Belinda S Lee 

Daniel M. Wall (State Bar No. 102580) 

Belinda S Lee (State Bar No. 199635) 

Ashley M. Bauer (State Bar No. 231626) 

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

505 Montgomery Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 415-391-0600 

Facsimile: 415-395-8095 

Email: dan.wall@lw.com 

Email: belinda.lee@lw.com 

Email: ashley.bauer@lw.com 

Attorneys for Defendant StarKist Co. 

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Dated: September 15, 2015 O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

By: /s/ Edward D. Hassi 

Edward D. Hassi (pro hac vice to be 

submitted) 

Julia A. Schiller (pro hac vice to be 

submitted) 

1625 Eye Street, NW 

Washington, DC 20006 

Telephone: 202-383-5336 

Facsimile: 202-383-5414 

Email: ehassi@omm.com 

Email: jschiller@omm.com 

Attorneys for Defendant Bumble Bee Foods, 

LLC 

Dated: September 15, 2015 By: /s/ William E. White 

William E. White (Cal. Bar No. 155617) 

John Terzaken 

John Roberti 

ALLEN & OVERY LLP 

1101 New York Avenue NW 

Washington, D.C 20005 

Telephone: 202-683-3800 

Facsimile: 202-683-3999 

Email: john.terzaken@allenovery.com 

Email: john.roberti@allenovery.com 

Email: william.white@allenovery.com 

Attorneys for Defendant Tri-Union Seafoods 

LLC and King Oscar, Inc. 

ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

September __, 2015 

Vincent Chhabria 

United States District Judge

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