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Parties Involved:
Ron Carter
Plaintiff
Juan Estrada
Plaintiff
Jerry Green
Plaintiff
Burl Malmgren
Plaintiff
Bill McDonald
Plaintiff
Joel Morales
Plaintiff
XPO Logistics, Inc
Defendant
XPO Logistics, Inc.
Defendant

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Beth Ross, SBN 141337

Jennifer Keating, SBN 250857

Amy Endo, SBN 272998

LEONARD CARDER, LLP

1330 Broadway, Suite 1450

Oakland, CA 94612

Telephone: (510) 272-0169

Facsimile: (510) 272-0174

bross@leonardcarder.com

jkeating@leonardcarder.com

aendo@leonardcarder.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

RON CARTER, et al.

David Mara, SBN 230498

Jamie Serb, SBN 289601

William Turley, SBN 122408

THE TURLEY LAW FIRM, APLC

7428 Trade Street

San Diego, CA 92121

Telephone: (619) 234-2833

Facsimile: (619) 234-4048

dmara@turleylawfirm.com

jserb@turleylawfirm.com

bturley@turleylawfirm.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

KEVIN KRAMER, et al.

Matthew R. Bainer Bar No. 220972

THE BAINER LAW FIRM

1901 Harrison Street, Suite 1100

Oakland, CA 94612

Telephone: (510) 922-1802

Facsimile: (510) 844-7701

mbainer@bainerlawfirm.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

HECTOR IBANEZ

Thomas W. Falvey, SBN65744

Michael H. Boyamian, SBN 256107

Armand R. Kizirian, SBN 293992

LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS W. FALVEY

550 North Brand Blvd., Suite 1500

Glendale, CA 91203

Telephone: (818) 547-5200

Facsimile: (818) 500-9307

thomaswfalvey@gmail.com

mike.falveylaw@gmail.com

armand.falveylaw@gmail.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

RAMON GARCIA, et al.

Joseph M. Lovretovich, SBN 73403

David F. Tibor, SBN 230563

JML LAW, APLC

21052 Oxnard Street

Woodland Hills, CA 91367

Telephone: (818) 610-8800

Facsimile: (818) 610-3030

jml@jmllaw.com

david@jmllaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

RAMON GARCIA, et al.

Fraser A. McAlpine, CA Bar No. 248554

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

50 California Street, 9th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 394-9400

Facsimile: (415) 394-9401

fraser.mcalpine@jacksonlewis.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

XPO LAST MILE, INC.

Adam L. Lounsbury, VA Bar No. 89847

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

701 East Byrd Street, 17th Floor

Richmond, VA 23219

Telephone: (804) 649-0404

Facsimile: (804) 649-0403

jeffrey.newhouse@jacksonlewis.com

adam.lounsbury@jacksonlewis.com

Appearing Pro Hac Vice

Attorneys for Defendant XPO LAST MILE, INC.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RON CARTER, JUAN ESTRADA, 

JERRY GREEN, BURL MALMGREN, 

BILL McDONALD, and JOEL MORALES, 

on behalf of themselves and others similarly 

situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

XPO LAST MILE, INC. and DOES 1 

through 10, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 3:16-cv-01231-WHO

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THE CLASS CERTIFICATION 

SCHEDULE AND REQUEST FOR CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

Amended Complaint Filed: June 9, 2016

Judge: Hon. William H. Orrick

RAMON GARCIA, an individual, VICTOR 

RAMIREZ, an individual; ADRIAN 

VALENTE, an individual; MARIO PINON, 

an individual; MYNOR CABRERA, an 

individual; Individually, and on Behalf of All 

Similarly Situated Individuals, 

Plaintiffs,

v.

MACY’S WEST STORES, INC., an Ohio 

corporation; JOSEPH ELETTO TRANSFER, 

INC., a New York corporation; XPO 

LOGISTICS, LLC, and Ohio corporation; and 

DOES 1 through 25, Inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 3:16-cv-04440-WHO

Action Filed: July 1, 2016

Date Removed: August 5, 2016

Judge: Hon. William H. Orrick

KEVIN KRAMER on behalf of himself, all 

others similarly situated, and on behalf of the 

general public, 

Plaintiffs,

v.

XPO LOGISTICS, INC.; and DOES 1 – 100, 

Defendants.

Case No. 3:16-cv-07039-WHO

 Consolidated with 3:17-cv-04009-JSC

Action Filed: September 22, 2016

Date Removed: December 8, 2016

Judge: Hon. William H. Orrick

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HECTOR IBANEZ on behalf of himself, all

others similarly situated, and on behalf of the 

general public

 Plaintiffs,

v.

XPO LAST MILE, INC.; and DOES 1 – 100, 

Defendants.

This Document Relates To: 

Kramer, 3:16-cv-07039-WHO;

Ibanez, 3:17-cv-04009-JSC;

Carter, 3:16-cv-01231-WHO;

Garcia, 3:16-cv-04440-WHO

STIPULATION AND ORDER

WHEREAS, the parties to Carter v. XPO Logistics, Inc., No. 16-cv-01231-WHO 

(“Carter”), Garcia v. Macy’s West Stores, Inc., et al (“Garcia”), and the consolidated Kramer v. 

XPO Logistics, Inc., No. 16-cv-07039-WHO (“Kramer”) and Ibanez v. XPO Last Mile, Inc., No. 

17-cv-04009-JSC (“Ibanez”) (consolidated matter referred to as “Kramer/Ibanez”), have agreed 

that the class certification schedule should be revised in order to facilitate the parties’ continuing 

effort to mediate this dispute. The parties are seeking this adjustment to the briefing schedule due 

to unanticipated issues experienced in connection with marshalling the data necessary to support a 

complete and accurate damages analysis by the parties. The parties rescheduled the mediation for 

two sessions to be held on October 25, 2018, and November 13, 2018, and jointly request that the 

Court adjust the briefing and hearing schedule to permit the parties to focus on settlement 

discussions before briefing the case for class certification. A discussion of the obstacles and 

proposed scheduling amendment follows.

On May 30, 2018, the Court entered an Order that set the current certification and motion 

hearing dates.

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 That schedule was proposed and agreed by the parties in order to facilitate a 

mediated resolution to this case. At that time, the mediation was scheduled for August 30 and 31, 

2018 in San Francisco. Stipulation and Order, May 30, 2018 (docketed only at Kramer/Ibanez

ECF No. 65).

 

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That Order revised the prior schedule that was set March 21, 2018 (Carter ECF No. 165); 

(Garcia ECF No. 90); (Kramer/Ibanez ECF No. 63).

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Following the Order setting the mediation and briefing schedule, the parties set out to 

conduct the damages discovery necessary to support an informed damages discussion at the 

mediation—prior to scheduling the mediation, the parties’ discovery efforts were largely focused 

on issues bearing on class certification. On June 8, 2018, Carter plaintiffs issued a robust request 

for data to support their damages model that would be used to inform their position in settlement 

discussions. This request sought information about class member identities, and various metrics 

that would bear on the days, hours of work, as well as amounts paid to individual carriers and 

amounts those carriers paid out in various expenses. On July16, 2018, Kramer/Ibanez plaintiffs 

issued a separate request for information to support their damages model. This request sought 

information regarding class member identities (and counts), as well as data reflecting hours of 

work and amounts paid to secondary drivers and helpers in the class. Finally, on July 19, 2018, the

Garcia plaintiffs issued a separate request for information from a third party source that could 

provide information regarding hours of work for each secondary driver or helper working out of 

the Macy’s Union City location during the class period.

Following the Carter request, XPO LM began to work on a plan to marshal the requested 

data. As is often the case, the initial challenge was to determine what data – housed in a system 

that is not intended to be a used for these purposes – could be extracted and compiled in a useful 

and accessible form. It took several weeks and numerous discussions between counsel, XPO LM 

information technology personnel, and XPO LM’s litigation consultants to establish a basic 

protocol for extracting the information. Once the protocol was established, XPO LM’s information 

technology team then had to develop technical queries that would establish relationships between 

various databases so that the data was useable. That is, the technical team was tasked with creating 

an output that identified the who, where, and when for each and every truck that delivered for one 

of XPO LM’s customers in California on each and every day during the class period (which dates 

back to March 2012 for Carter). The result was an output of 10’s of millions of lines of data.

After this initial data set was captured, XPO LM began the process of quality testing the 

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data output to evaluate its completeness. On July 27, 2018, while this testing was performed XPO 

LM produced to plaintiffs an initial dataset. Within days, the parties identified massive gaps in the 

data. Some high-level examples of the issues that were identified include:

 Certain putative class members’ and related contract carrier information was not 

included in the dataset (including some information about named-plaintiffs);

 The dataset that was extracted was not representative of the work performed by 

carriers and was incomplete (as identified by comparison to other records 

exchanged in discovery);

 Settlement data did not match to the data provided by the third party settlement 

company (as identified by a manual comparison of a sample of the data to the 

individual carrier settlement statements);

 Information regarding contract interstate routes not included in the data;

 Estimated length of day and individualized routed stop data was not linked to the 

delivery team performing the services;

 The route and stop data collected by some of XPO LM’s customers through third 

party software (ex., Decartes, Cheetah, Mobilink) was not represented in the dataset, 

which meant there were informational gaps depending on the profit center.

Since this first production, XPO LM, its consultants and legal team have been working to 

resolve each issue to ensure that the data upon which all of the parties base a settlement discussion 

is accurate and robust as is available. During this data integrity and troubleshooting phase, the 

parties have regularly communicated about the issues that they have spotted.

At the beginning of August, only thirty days before the mediation, the parties recognized 

that they would not have enough time to complete the data integrity efforts, to exchange millions of 

lines of data and to develop their damages models in consultation with their experts, in time to have 

a productive mediation at the end of August. Consequently, the parties contacted the mediator to 

identify the next available dates for a two day mediation. In order to obtain earlier dates, the 

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parties offered to be flexible on location of the mediation and agreed that non-contiguous dates 

could be selected if that meant an earlier mediation was possible.

On August 23, 2018 the parties and mediator Michael Dickstein, Esq., rescheduled the 

mediation for October 25, in San Francisco, and November 13 in Toronto.

According to the current Order, plaintiffs’ motions for class certification are due on October 

2, 2018, defendants’ oppositions are due on December 3, 2018, and plaintiffs’ reply briefs are due 

on December 24, 2018, with a hearing to follow on January 17, 2019. Stipulation and Order, May 

30, 2018 (docketed only at Kramer/Ibanez ECF No. 65).

NOW THEREFORE, the parties stipulate to and request that the Court order the following 

revised certification motion, briefing and hearing dates:

 Motions for class certification due December 14, 2018; 

 Oppositions are due February 8, 2019;

 Reply briefs are due March 1, 2019;

 Hearing is set for April 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM.

The parties submit that good cause exists to continue the class certification dates. The 

parties have vigorously litigated the case, and, as previously anticipated that a realistic exploration 

of settlement will involve the production, review, and analysis of millions of lines of additional 

data. That data has yet to be exchanged. The substantial amount of time needed to prepare the 

matter for class certification and Defendant’s opposition thereto would interfere with the parties’ 

ability to devote the time needed to prepare the matter for settlement discussions at the scheduled 

mediation. Should the matter not settle at or around the mediation, the class certification motion 

will be filed, according to the proposed schedule outlined above, 30 days after the scheduled twodays of mediation. Thus, should the matter not settle at or around the scheduled mediation, the 

matter will immediately proceed towards certification per the above proposed schedule. 

Additionally, the Parties further request the Court set a Case Management Conference to 

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discuss modifications to the case schedule on Thursday, November 15, 2018 or as soon thereafter 

as the Court’s calendar will permit. 

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: August 30, 2018 THE TURLEY & MARA LAW FIRM, APLC

/s/ William Turley

William Turley, Esq.

David Mara, Esq.

Jamie Serb, Esq.

Representing Kramer/Ibanez Plaintiffs

Dated: August 30, 2018 THE BAINER LAW FIRM

/s/ Matthew Bainer

Matthew Bainer, Esq.

Representing Kramer/Ibanez Plaintiffs

Dated: August 30, 2018 LEONARD CARDER

/s/ Beth Ross

Beth Ross, Esq.

Jennifer Keating, Esq.

Amy Endo, Esq.

Representing Carter Plaintiffs

Dated: August 30, 2018 LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS W. FALVEY

/s/ Michael Boyamian

Michael Boyamian, Esq.

Armand Kizirian, Esq.

Representing Garcia Plaintiffs

Dated: August 30, 2018 JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

/s/ Fraser A. McAlpine

Fraser A. McAlpine

Adam L. Lounsbury

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Representing Defendants XPO Last Mile, Inc., 

Macy’s West Stores, Inc.

SIGNATURE ATTESTATION Local Rule 5-1(i)(3)

I Fraser A. McAlpine, attest that each of the other signatories to this document concur in the 

filing of this document.

/s/ Fraser A. McAlpine

Fraser A. McAlpine

ORDER

The class certification schedule is amended as follows:

Motions for class certification due December 14, 2018; 

Oppositions are due February 8, 2019;

Reply briefs are due March 1, 2019;

Hearing is set for April 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM.

A further CMC is set for Tuesday November 13, 2018 at 2:00 p.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 30, 2018

The Honorable William H. Orrick

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

4853-2001-4192, v. 4

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