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Parties Involved:
Pet Extreme, Inc.
Defendant
Cirena Torres
Plaintiff

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Chant Yedalian, State Bar No. 222325 

(chant@chant.mobi)

CHANT & COMPANY

A Professional Law Corporation

1010 N. Central Ave.

Glendale, CA 91202

Phone: 877.574.7100

Fax: 877.574.9411

Counsel for Plaintiff

Cirena Torres

Lawrence M. Cirelli, State Bar No. 114710

(lcirelli@hansonbridgett.com)

Mohammad Walizadeh, State Bar No. 233390

(mwalizadeh@hansonbridgett.com)

HANSON BRIDGETT LLP

425 Market Street, 26th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105

Phone: 415.777.3200

Fax: 415.541.9366

Counsel for Defendant

Pet Extreme, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CIRENA TORRES, on behalf of 

herself and all others similarly 

situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

PET EXTREME, INC., and DOES 1 

through 10, inclusive,

Defendants.

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Case No.: 1:13-cv-01778-LJO-SAB

JOINT NOTICE OF PROPOSED

CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT; AND

REQUEST AND ORDER TO VACATE 

MAY 27, 2014 SCHEDULING

CONFERENCE

Date: May 27, 2014

Time: 2:30 p.m.

Courtroom: 9 (6th Floor)

Hon. Stanley A. Boone

U.S. Magistrate Judge

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TO THE HONORABLE COURT:

Plaintiff Cirena Torres and Defendant Pet Extreme, Inc., through their 

respective counsel, hereby inform the Court that they have entered into a written and 

signed Memorandum Of Understanding Of Settlement ("MOU") through which they 

have agreed to a class-wide settlement of this action.

There are a few issues which the parties continue to work on. Specifically, 

the Parties' are working to prepare a long-form settlement agreement, including the 

Short-Form Notice to the Settlement Class (and the locations within each store 

where it will be placed), the Full Notice to the Settlement Class and the Claim Form. 

The MOU requires the Parties' to work together and take all steps necessary and 

appropriate to effectuate the settlement, and expressly states as follows:

"13. Cooperation to Effectuate Settlement. 

The Parties agree to cooperate and take all steps necessary and 

appropriate to effectuate the settlement. This includes, consistent with 

the terms of this MOU, the Parties' agreement to work together in good 

faith to prepare and sign a long-form settlement agreement, including the 

Short-Form Notice (and the locations within each store where it will be 

placed), the Full Notice and the Claim Form, all of which are to be 

submitted to the court in connection with Torres' motion for preliminary 

approval of the settlement. The parties shall diligently work together to 

seek preliminary and final court approval of the settlement." 

The MOU also provides that if the Parties cannot agree on these few issues, 

the MOU shall nonetheless be fully enforceable by the Court and the Court shall 

resolve any such differences: 

14. MOU Is Fully Enforceable, and any Disputes Shall Be Decided 

By Court. 

The Parties agree that this MOU shall be fully enforceable by the 

court. To the extent that there is any disagreement in preparing a longform settlement agreement, including the Short-Form Notice (and the 

locations within each store where it will be placed), the Full Notice and 

the Claim Form, the Parties agree that the court shall resolve any such 

differences and the court shall look to and use the terms of this MOU in 

resolving any such differences.

Thus, the Parties' MOU is a fully enforceable class-wide settlement, subject to 

the Court's approval.

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Rule 23(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires the Court's 

approval of all class action settlements. Accordingly, Plaintiff will file a motion 

seeking the Court's preliminary approval of the class settlement in this case.

The Parties continue to work together and they expect that a motion for 

preliminary approval of the class action settlement will be filed in approximately 

sixty (60) days.

In light of the Parties' class-wide settlement agreement subject to court 

approval, the Parties' mutually request that the Court vacate the May 27, 2014 

Mandatory Scheduling Conference (Dkt # 8 at p.2:18-25).

DATED: May 9, 2014 CHANT & COMPANY 

A Professional Law Corporation

By: /S/ – Chant Yedalian (as

 _______________________ authorized on May 9, 2014)___ 

 Chant Yedalian

Counsel for Plaintiff Cirena Torres

 

DATED: May 9, 2014 HANSON BRIDGETT LLP

 By: _______________________ /S/ – Mohammad Walizadeh____ 

 Lawrence M. Cirelli

Mohammad Walizadeh 

Counsel for Defendant Pet Extreme, In

ORDER

FOR GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, IT IS ORDERED that the Mandatory 

Scheduling Conference, currently set for May 27, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. in Courtroom 

9, is vacated. Plaintiff shall file her motion for preliminary approval of the class 

action settlement within sixty (60) days of this Order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 12, 2014 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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