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Parties Involved:
Aetna Inc.
Defendant
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Defendant
Michael Gong-Chun
Plaintiff

Document Text:

JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE SCHEDULING CONFERENCE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER THEREON

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1800 CENTURY PARK EAST, SECOND FLOOR, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90067

Robert E. Byrnes (SBN 200761) 

RByrnes@InitiativeLegal.com

Payam Shahian (SBN 228406) 

PShahian@InitiativeLegal.com

Sang Park (SBN 232956) 

SPark@InitiativeLegal.com

Initiative Legal Group APC 

1800 Century Park East, 2nd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90067 

Telephone: (310) 556-5637 

Facsimile: (310) 861-9051 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Leslie L. Abbott (SBN 155597) 

Noam Glick (SBN 251582)

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP 

515 South Flower Street 

Twenty-Fifth Floor 

Los Angeles, CA 90071 

Telephone: (213) 683-6000 

Facsimile: (213) 627-0705 

Attorneys for Defendants Aetna, Inc. and 

Aetna Life Insurance Company 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION 

MICHAEL GONG-CHUN, 

individually, and on behalf of other 

members of the general public 

similarly situated, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

AETNA INC., a Pennsylvania 

corporation; AETNA LIFE 

INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

Connecticut corporation; and DOES 1 

through 10, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 09-CV-01995-AWI-SMS 

CLASS ACTION 

JOINT STIPULATION TO 

CONTINUE SCHEDULING 

CONFERENCE AND ORDER 

THEREON 

Date Action Filed: September 17, 2009 

Trial Date: None Set 

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THIS STIPULATION is hereby entered into by and between Plaintiff 

Michael Gong-Chun (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Aetna Life Insurance Company 

(“Defendant”) (collectively referred to as the “Parties”), by and through their 

respective counsel of record. 

WHEREAS, on September 17, 2009, Plaintiff filed a putative wage and 

hour class action in Superior Court of California, Fresno County (the “Superior 

Court”) on his own behalf and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff pleaded class allegations for Defendant’s failure to 

provide meal periods, failure to timely pay all wages upon termination, failure to 

timely pay wages during employment, and violation of California’s Unfair 

Competition Laws; 

WHEREAS, on November 12, 2009, Defendant removed the action from 

the Superior Court to this Court; 

WHEREAS, on or about November 13, 2009, this Court ordered the 

Parties to attend a formal Scheduling Conference on January 14, 2010, and file a 

Joint Scheduling Report one full week prior to the Scheduling Conference; 

WHEREAS, the Parties met and conferred on December 17, 2009 and 

agreed to do the following: 

a) Attend an early mediation with Antonio Piazza on March 18, 2010; 

b) Exchange informal discovery for the mediation; 

c) Serve formal written discovery; 

d) Serve deposition notices with appearance dates to be set by notice 

within 30 days after the mediation or by agreement of the Parties; and, 

e) Exchange initial disclosures required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a) (1) 

within 30 days after the mediation; 

WHEREAS, the Parties further agreed to do the following with Class 

Member names and contact information: 

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f) Defendant will produce the Class List to a neutral third party 

administrator (for purposes of this stipulation, the term “Class List” means a 

Microsoft Excel electronic file containing the full names, most recently known 

addresses, and most recently known telephone numbers for all non-exempt and 

hourly paid employees of Defendant who worked in California within four years 

prior to the filing of the complaint until date of certification); 

g) By December 28, 2009, the neutral third party administrator shall 

mail a one-page notice and opt-out postcard to persons on the Class List informing 

them of their right to opt-out of disclosing their identities and contact information 

to Plaintiff, attached hereto as Exhibit A. Putative class members will have 30 

days from the date of mailing to mail opt-out postcards. By February 3, 2010, the 

neutral third party administrator will provide the Class List, excluding those 

persons who opted-out of disclosing their information, to Plaintiff. 

WHEREAS, the Parties agree that the case may settle at the March 18, 

2010 mediation, and as a result, a Scheduling Conference will be unnecessary; 

WHEREAS, the Parties respectfully submit that judicial economy would 

be best served if the currently ordered Scheduling Conference is continued by 30 

days after the mediation; 

IT IS THEREFORE STIPULATED between the Parties by and through 

their respective counsel that the upcoming Scheduling Conference currently 

scheduled for January 14, 2010, at 9:30 a.m., be continued to April 15, 2010, at 

9:30 a.m., or to a date that is otherwise convenient for the Court, and that a Joint 

Scheduling Report be filed one full week prior to the Scheduling Conference. 

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Dated: January 5, 2010 Respectfully submitted, 

 INITIATIVE LEGAL GROUP APC

By: /s/ Sang Park

Robert E. Byrnes 

Payam Shahian 

Sang Park 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Dated: January 5, 2010 PAUL HASTINGS JANOFSKY & WALKER LLP

 

By: /s/ Noam Glick_ 

Leslie L. Abbott 

Noam Glick 

Attorneys for Defendants Aetna, Inc. 

and Aetna Life Insurance Company 

GOOD CAUSE SHOWING, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: January 6, 2010 /s/ Sandra M. Snyder____________ 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

 

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