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Parties Involved:
GGNSC Administrative Services LLC
Defendant
Golden Gate LLC
Defendant
Hospice Preferred Choice Inc.
Defendant
Rodney Smith
Plaintiff

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STIP. TO EXTEND CONDITIONAL CLASS CERTIFICATION BRIEFING SCHEDULE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

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Charles M. Roesch (pro hac vice)

Andrew B. Millar (pro hac vice)

DINSMORE & SHOHL LLP

255 East Fifth Street, Suite 1900

Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Tel: (513) 977-8200

Fax: (513) 977-8141

Email: chuck.roesch@dinsmore.com

drew.millar@dinsmore.com

Attorneys for Golden Gate LLC, GGNSC Administrative Services LLC, Hospice

Preferred Choice, Inc.

Alan Harris (SBN 146079)

Priya Mohan (SBN 228984)

HARRIS & RUBLE

4771 Cromwell Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90027

Tel: 323.962.3777

Fax: 323.962.3004

Email: aharris@harrisandruble.com

pmohan@harrisandruble.com

 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Rodney Smith

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

RODNEY SMITH, individually and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs

 v.

GOLDEN GATE LLC, GGNSC 

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES LLC, 

HOSPICE PREFERRED CHOICE INC. 

and Doe One through and including Doe 

One-Hundred,

Defendants. 

Case No. 1:13-cv-01319-AWI-MJS

JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND 

CONDITIONAL CLASS 

CERTIFICATION BRIEFING 

SCHEDULE AND ORDER 

Hon. Michael J. Seng, United States 

Magistrate Judge

Complaint filed: Aug. 19, 2013

Discovery Cut-off: Dec. 19, 2014

Mot. for Conditional Class Cert.: Aug. 

29, 2014

Mot. for Class Cert.: Jan. 16, 2015 

Status Conf.: May 15, 2015

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Plaintiff Rodney G. Smith (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants Golden Gate LLC, 

GGNSC Administrative Services LLC and Hospice Preferred Choice, Inc. 

(“Defendants”) (collectively “the Parties”) jointly request a brief continuance of the 

conditional class certification briefing deadlines so they can focus on their ongoing 

settlement negotiations prior to spending additional time and resources on discovery and 

briefing. As set forth in the concurrently filed Declaration of Alan Harris, the Parties

believe good cause exists for the requested continuance. The parties have been involved

in settlement negotiations pertaining to this case as well as two related cases, Carr v. 

Beverly Health, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Case No. 14-15191 and Veurink v. Beverly 

Health and Rehabilitation Services, Inc., Sonoma County Superior Court Case No.: SCV 

255496. Class claims are at issue in each of the three cases and there is overlap among 

the putative class members. 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff’s motion for conditional class certification is currently set to 

be filed by August 29, 2014 and heard on November 7, 2014;

WHEREAS, the Parties are engaged in ongoing settlement negotiations pertaining 

to this case as well as two related cases. Accordingly, the Parties jointly request the 

Court extend the deadline for the filing of Plaintiff’s motion for conditional class 

certification until October 28, 2014;

WHEREAS, the Parties further request that the Court extend the opposition 

deadline until November 11, 2014, and the reply deadline until November 18, 2014;

NOW THEREFORE, the Parties jointly stipulate that, subject to the Court’s 

approval, the deadline for Plaintiff’s motion for conditional class certification shall be 

extended until October 28, 2014, the opposition deadline will be extended until 

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November 11, 2014, and the reply deadline will be extended until November 18, 2014. 

The hearing on these filings will be rescheduled for a date convenient to the Court. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED

DATED: August 14, 2014 DINSMORE & SHOHL 

Andrew B. Millar

Attorney for Defendants

DATED: August 14, 2014 HARRIS & RUBLE

/s/ Alan Harris

Alan Harris

Attorney for Plaintiff

ORDER

PURSUANT TO THE ABOVE STIPULATION AND GOOD CAUSE 

APPEARING THEREFOR, IT IS SO ORDERED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 15, 2014 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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