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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

550 South Hope Street, Suite 2000

Los Angeles, California 90071-2627

Ann Marie Mortimer (SBN 169077)

amortimer@HuntonAK.com

Jason J. Kim (SBN 221476) 

kimj@HuntonAK.com

Kirk A. Hornbeck (SBN 241708)

khornbeck@HuntonAK.com

HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP

550 South Hope Street, Suite 2000

Los Angeles, California 90071-2627

Telephone: (213) 532-2000

Facsimile: (213) 532-2020

Samuel A. Danon (admitted pro hac vice)

sdanon@HuntonAK.com

John J. Delionado (admitted pro hac vice)

jdelionado@HuntonAK.com

HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP

1111 Brickell Avenue, Suite 2500

Miami, Florida 33143

Telephone: (305) 810-2500

Facsimile: (305) 810-2460

[Additional Defendants’ counsel listed 

below]

Attorneys for Defendants

Yahoo! Inc. and 

Aabaco Small Business, LLC 

John A. Yanchunis

jyanchunis@ForThePeople.com

MORGAN & MORGAN 

COMPLEX LITIGATION GROUP

201 N. Franklin Street, 7th Floor

Tampa, Florida 33602

Telephone: (813) 223-5505

Facsimile: (813) 223-5402

Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – SAN JOSE DIVISION

IN RE: YAHOO! CUSTOMER DATA 

SECURITY BREACH LITIGATION 

CASE NO.: 16-MD-02752-LHK

FOURTEENTH JOINT CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

STATEMENT

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Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. (SBN 132099)

tboutrous@gibsondunn.com

Joshua A. Jessen (SBN 222831)

jjessen@gibsondunn.com

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP

333 South Grand Avenue

Los Angeles, California 90071

Telephone: (213) 229-7000

Facsimile: (213) 229-7520

Michael Li-Ming Wong (SBN 194130)

mwong@gibsondunn.com

Rachel S. Brass (SBN 219301)

rbrass@gibsondunn.com

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP

555 Mission Street, Suite 3000

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 393-8200

Facsimile: (415) 393-8306

Attorneys for Defendants

Yahoo! Inc. and 

Aabaco Small Business, LLC 

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Plaintiffs, along with Defendants Yahoo! Inc. (“Yahoo”) and Aabaco Small 

Business, LLC (together, “Defendants”), having met and conferred, hereby provide 

this Fourteenth Joint Case Management Statement, as directed by the Court, (ECF No. 

272).

DISCOVERY UPDATE

As directed by the Court (ECF No. 148), the parties hereby provide a brief 

update on discovery, which continues to progress: 

A. Document Productions

To date, Defendants have produced 650,029 documents totaling approximately 

9.05 million pages. Following the parties’ August 8, 2018, Thirteenth Joint Case 

Management Conference Statement (ECF No. 270), Defendants and non-parties 

produced the following: 

 On August 29, 2018 and August 30, 2018, Defendants produced 8 data 

files in native format, consisting of the output associated with custom 

scripts prepared by Defendants’ expert Dr. Whipple as identified in his 

August 31, 2018 Declaration.;

 On August 31, 2018, non-party Ronald Bell (former Yahoo General 

Counsel) produced 76 documents totaling 1,970 pages, in response to 

Plaintiffs’ subpoena duces tecum.

B. Privilege Logs

On August 8, 2018, Magistrate Judge Cousins held a hearing regarding the 

parties’ joint statement concerning the propriety of Defendants’ privilege logs. As a 

result, Magistrate Judge Cousins set a briefing schedule on the facial deficiencies 

portion of the letter. Briefing on that issue is now complete, (ECF Nos. 276, 283, 

289), and the matter is set for hearing on September 12, 2018, (ECF No. 268). 

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Magistrate Judge Cousins previously denied Plaintiffs’ motion regarding the 

applicability of the crime fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege without 

prejudice, allowing Plaintiffs to raise the issue again after the September 12th hearing 

via a renewed request with briefing and additional evidence. Tr. at 47:24-48:4.

Plaintiffs have also engaged with Sidley Austin regarding the production and/or 

logging of certain documents relating to the investigation undertaken by Sidley for the 

Special Cybersecurity Review Committee of the Yahoo Board of Directors. On 

August 10, 2018, Plaintiffs and Sidley reached an agreement for the production or 

logging of certain documents. Production has not yet occurred. 

 

C. Depositions 

Deposition discovery continues to move forward. Former Yahoo Chief 

Information Officer Jay Rossiter was deposed on August 16th. Plaintiffs’ class 

certification experts were also recently deposed: James Van Dyke on August 21st, Ian 

Ratner on August 24th, Mary Frantz on August 27th, and Gary Parilis on August 28th. 

Plaintiffs have also coordinated the depositions of Yahoo’s former General Counsel 

Ron Bell on September 12th, and Yahoo’s former President and CEO Marissa Mayer 

on October 9th (as directed by Judge Cousins).1 Coordination of these depositions has 

been taken in conjunction with counsel in the parallel state court action and counsel 

for the individual witnesses. Plaintiffs have noticed the deposition of David Filo and 

are working to coordinate a date with the witness and all involved counsel.

Plaintiffs are in the midst of negotiations with Ms. Mayer’s counsel regarding 

the scope and process for her document production, which issues have previously 

been the subject of dispute. (ECF No. 280). While always hopeful of amicable 

resolution, Plaintiffs believe further judicial involvement may be required. 

 

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See (ECF No. 286).

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CLASS CERTIFICATION UPDATE

Pursuant to the Court’s Order Amending Case Management Schedule, (ECF 

No. 207), Defendants filed their response to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification 

and Daubert motions on August 31, 2018. Plaintiffs are preparing their responsive 

filings, due September 21, 2018. 

MEDIATION

The parties—in concert with counsel in the parallel state court action—held 

their first mediation session on August 14, 2018, with the Honorable Daniel Weinstein 

(Ret.) of JAMS. A second session is scheduled for September 7, 2018. 

Dated: September 5, 2018 MORGAN & MORGAN 

By: /s/ John Yanchunis 

John Yanchunis

Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel

Dated: September 5, 2018 HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP

By: /s/ Ann Marie Mortimer 

Ann Marie Mortimer

Attorneys for Defendants 

Yahoo! Inc. and 

Aabaco Small Business, LLC

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ATTESTATION

I hereby attest that each of the other signatories concurs in the filing of this 

document.

Dated: September 5, 2018

By: /s/ John Yanchunis 

John Yanchunis

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