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Parties Involved:
CREST
Defendant
Cherish M. Smith
Plaintiff
The Procter & Gamble Co.
Defendant

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER POSTPONING CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

Case No. 3:12-CV-00557-EDL

Lara T. Kollios (State Bar No. 235395)

lkollios@jonesday.com 

JONES DAY 

555 California Street, 26th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 626-3939 

Facsimile: (415) 875-5700 

Hugh R. Whiting (admission pro hac vice) 

hrwhiting@jonesday.com 

Kevin D. Boyce (admission pro hac vice) 

kdboyce@jonesday.com 

JONES DAY 

North Point 

901 Lakeside Avenue 

Cleveland, OH 44114 

Telephone: (216) 586-3939 

Facsimile: (216) 579-0212 

Attorneys for Defendant 

THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. 

Benjamin M. Lopatin (State Bar No. 281730)

THE LAW OFFICES OF 

HOWARD W. RUBINSTEIN, P.A. 

One Embarcadero Center, Suite 500 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (800) 436-6437 

Facsimile: (415) 692-6607 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

CHERISH M. SMITH 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CHERISH M. SMITH, as an individual, and 

on behalf of all other similarly situated, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., a Ohio 

corporation doing business as CREST, 

Defendant. 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER POSTPONING 

CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE 

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 6-1(b), all parties to this action, through their duly authorized 

undersigned counsel, stipulate and request as follows: 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Plaintiff Cherish M. Smith (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant The 

Procter & Gamble Company’s (“Defendant”) joint stipulation, the Court scheduled a case 

management conference for January 15, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. and ordered the parties to file a joint 

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case management statement no later than January 8, 2013 (Doc. 37); 

WHEREAS, currently, there are five separate lawsuits (including the above-captioned 

matter) now pending in five different courts, all asserting similar claims based on allegations 

about marketing Crest Sensitivity Treatment & Protection toothpaste—the other four cases are: 

• Rossi v. The Procter & Gamble Company, D.N.J., Case No. 2:11-cv-07238-JLL-MAH; 

• Gilbert v. The Procter & Gamble Company, S.D. Ohio, Case No. 1:12-cv-00040-TSB; 

• Immerman v. The Procter & Gamble Company, et al., Case No. 12-cv-779534 (Cuyahoga 

Cty. C.P.); and 

• Alvandi v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing, LLC, Case No. BC486938 (Cal. Super.); 

WHEREAS, settlement discussions are currently taking place to resolve all five cases; 

WHEREAS, based on these settlement discussions, Plaintiff Cherish M. Smith 

(“Plaintiff”) and Defendant The Procter & Gamble Company (“Defendant”) have previously 

stipulated to extend Defendant’s time to answer, move, or respond to Plaintiff’s Amended 

Complaint to February 1, 2013 (Doc. 38); 

WHEREAS, other previous time modifications in this case include a Stipulation 

Extending Defendant’s Time to Answer, Move, or Respond to Complaint to March 29, 2012 

(Doc. 11), dated February 28, 2012; a Joint Stipulation and Order for Stay (Doc. 25), dated April 

10, 2012; a Stipulation Extending Defendant’s Time to Answer, Move, or Respond to Amended 

Complaint to December 1, 2012 (Doc. 35), dated November 5, 2012; and a Joint Stipulation and 

Order Postponing Case Management Conference to January 15, 2013 (Doc. 37), dated November 

19, 2012; 

WHEREAS, the requested postponement of the case management conference will not 

otherwise affect the schedule for the case. 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties, through their respective 

counsel, that the case management conference scheduled on January 15, 2013, be postponed to 

February 26, 2013, and that a joint case management statement shall be filed no later than 

February 19, 2013. 

 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

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Dated: January 3, 2013 

 

/s/ Benjamin M. Lopatin 

Benjamin M. Lopatin (State Bar No. 281730) 

LAW OFFICES OF HOWARD W. 

RUBINSTEIN, P.A. 

One Embarcadero Center, Suite 500 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone (888) 560-4480, ext. 2 

Facsimile (415) 692-6607 

Attorney for Plaintiff Cherish M. Smith 

Dated: January 3, 2013 /s/ Kevin D. Boyce 

Lara T. Kollios (State Bar No. 235395) 

lkollios@jonesday.com 

JONES DAY 

555 California Street, 26th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 626-3939 

Facsimile: (415) 875-5700 

Hugh R. Whiting (admission pro hac vice) 

hrwhiting@jonesday.com 

Kevin D. Boyce (admission pro hac vice) 

kdboyce@jonesday.com 

JONES DAY 

North Point 

901 Lakeside Avenue 

Cleveland, OH 44114 

Telephone: (216) 586-3939 

Facsimile: (216) 579-0212 

Attorneys for Defendant 

The Procter & Gamble Company

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ________________, 2013 ___________________________________ 

 Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte 

January 4

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Dated: January 3, 2013 Respectfully submitted, 

Jones Day 

By: /s/ Kevin D. Boyce 

Kevin D. Boyce 

Counsel for Defendant 

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ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO CIVIL LOCAL RULE 5-1(i)(3)

I, Kevin D. Boyce, attest that I obtained the concurrence of Benjamin M. Lopatin in the 

filing of this document. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that 

the forgoing is true and correct. Executed this 3rd day of January, 2013, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Dated: January 3, 2013 JONES DAY,

By: /s/ Kevin D. Boyce 

Kevin D. Boyce 

Attorneys for Defendant 

THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO.

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