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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CHRIS AZPEITIA, ET AL.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

TESORO REFINING & MARKETING 

COMPANY LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 17-cv-00123-JST

SCHEDULING ORDER

The Court hereby sets the following case deadlines pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 16 and Civil Local Rule 16-10:

Event Deadline

Deadline to add parties or amend the pleadings1 April 26, 2017

Class certification motion due October 20, 2017

Class certification opposition due November 20, 2017

Class certification reply due December 19, 2017

Class certification hearing January 18, 2018 at 

2:00 p.m.

Counsel may not modify these dates without leave of court. The parties shall comply with 

the Court’s standing orders, which are available at cand.uscourts.gov/jstorders.

 

1 After this deadline, a party may still seek amendment, but must demonstrate good cause. Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 16(b)(4). 

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Requests for continuance are disfavored. The Court will not consider any event 

subsequently scheduled by a party, party-controlled witness, expert or attorney that conflicts with 

the above dates as good cause to grant a continuance. The Court will not consider the pendency of 

settlement discussions as good cause to grant a continuance. 

The Court also sets a Telephonic Case Management on July 21, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. Because 

more than one conference will be set at that time, the conference may not begin precisely at 2:00 

p.m. The purpose of the conference is to ensure that the case is on track. Each participant in the 

call must use a landline. By July 19, 2017 at noon, the parties are ordered to provide a single callin number that all participants may use. 

Also by July 19, 2017, the parties must file a joint case management conference statement. 

For that statement only, the parties should disregard the local rules concerning the content of case 

management statements. Instead, the statement should be divided into two sections. The first 

section will address the status of the parties’ discovery. The parties will first list any discovery 

propounded by the Plaintiffs, the status of that discovery, and any next steps required to complete 

the discovery or conclude any dispute regarding that discovery. The parties will then provide the 

same information regarding any discovery propounded by Defendants. The parties’ statement 

must include completed discovery as well as open discovery, and should list any discovery that 

has been discussed between the parties, even if it has not yet been propounded. The second 

section of the statement will include a discussion of any other issues requiring the Court’s 

attention or that bear on the progress of the case. At the conclusion of the conference, the Court 

will set the date and time of the next telephonic conference.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 19, 2017

_______________________________________

JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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