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1 TIMOTHY J. LONG (STATE BAR NO. 137591)
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2 NICHOLAS J. HORTON (STATE BAR NO. 289417)
nhorton@orrick.com
3 ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP
400 Capitol Mall
4 Suite 3000
Sacramcnto, CA 95814-4497
5 Telephone: +1916 447 9200
Facsimile: +1 916 329 4900
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STEPHANIE GAIL LEE (STATE BAR NO. 285379)
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ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP
8 777 South Figueroa Strcct, Suite 3200
Los Angeles, Califomia 90017
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Facsimile: (213)612-2499
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Attorneys for Defendant
il HEALTH NET OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO
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ANDREA SPEARS, an individual, on behalf Case No. 34-2017-00210560
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similarly situated. ASSIGNED FOR ALL PURPOSES TO
17 JUDGE ALAN G. PERKINS, DEPT 35
Plaintiff,
18 v. STIPULATION AND |PROPOSET&t
ORDER REGARDING DOCUMENT
19 HEALTH NET OF CALIFORNIA, INC., a PRODUCTION
Califomia Corporation; and Does 1 through
20 50, inclusive, Complaint Filed: April 5, 2017
Defendants. FACFiled: June 29, 2017
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22 Case No. 34-2017-00216685
TOMAS R. ARANA, on behalf of himself, all
23 others similarly situated.
ASSIGNED FOR ALL PURPOSES TO
Plaintiffs, JUDGE ALAN G. PERKINS, DEPT 35
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v. Complaint Filed: August 1,2017
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HEALTH NET OF CALIFORNIA, INC., a
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inclusive,
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Defendants.
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1 Norman B. Blumenthal (STATE BAR NO. 68687)
norm@bamlawca.com
^ BLUMENTHAL NORDREHAUG BHOWMIK DE BLOUW LLP
3 2255 Callc Clara
La Jolla, CA 92037
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Fax: (858)551-1232
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Attomeys for Plaintiff ANDREA SPEARS
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-J Shaun Sctarch (STATE BAR NO. 204514)
shaun@sctarehlaw.com
8 H. Scott Leviant (STATE BAR NO. 200834)
scott@stcarchlaw.com
9 SETAREH LAW GROUP
9454 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 907
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Fax: (310)888-0109
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Attomeys for Plaintiff TOMAS R. ARANA
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1 WHEREAS, in this wage and hour putative class action. Plaintiff Spears ("Spears") seeks
2 the time and wage records of the putative class members from Defendant Health Net of Califomia,
3 Inc. ("HNCl").
4 WHEREAS, on April 17,2018, this Court ordered Plaintiff and HNCl to conduct additional
5 meet and confer to discuss alleviating the burden on HNCl, including by sampling, with respect to
6 responding to Spears's Request for Production of Documents Nos. 20-22, which sought the
7 following documents:
8 20. Please produce, in electronic, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format,
all payroll records for the CLASS MEMBERS during the RELEVANT TIME
9 PERIOD.
10 21. Please produce, in electronic, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format,
ail time records reflecting hours worked for the CLASS MEMBERS during the
11 RELEVANT TIME PERIOD.
12 22. All copies of the wage statements that were provided to the CLASS
MEMBERS during the time period of April 5, 2014 until the present.
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14 WHEREAS, similar document requests were also the subject of meet and confer discussions
15 between Plaintiff Arana ("Arana") and HNCl related to Arana's Request for Production of
16 Documents Nos. 7-9, which sought the following documents:
17 7. All DOCUMENTS that describe, define, or explain the payroll
codes lhat appear on the wage statement and/or paycheck summaries for
18 POTENTIAL CLASS MEMBERS.
19 8. For each POTENTIAL CLASS MEMBER, please produce all
DOCUMENTS, lhat describe the hours worked for YOU during the RELEVANT
20 TIME PERIOD (including, but not limited to, time cards, time clock or punch clock
records, records of hours worked, overtime and double-time records, meal and rest
21 break records, vacation accrual, leave accrual,floatingholiday accrual, paid lime
off accrual, and/or records of additions or deductions from wages).
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9. For each POTENTIAL CLASS MEMBER, please produce all wage
23 statements or paycheck stubs during the RELEVANT TIME PERIOD.
24 WHEREAS, on April 17, 2018, this Court also ordered Spears and HCNI to conduct
25 additional meet and confer to discuss alleviating the burden on HNCl, including sampling, with
26 respect to responding to Spears's Special Interrogatories Nos. 6, 7, and 19, which sought the
27 following information:
28 6. Please state, for each CLASS MEMBER, the pay periods when the
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1 CLASS MEMBERS were paid overtime and cash payments in lieu of health
benefits during the same pay period during the RELEVANT TIME PERIOD (if
2 you refer to documents in response to this special interrogatory, please identify the
specific bates numbers for the responsive documents).
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7. Please state the number of CLASS MEMBERS who were paid
4 overtime compensation during the same pay period they received cash payments in
lieu of health benefits during the RELEVANT TIME PERIOD (if you refer to
5 documents in response to this special interrogatory, please identify the specific
bates numbers for the responsive documents).
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19. Please state the total number of meal period premiums you paid to
7 the CLASS MEMBERS during the RELEVANT TIME PERIOD (if you refer to
documents in response to this special interrogatory, please identify the specific
8 bates numbers for the responsive documents).
9 WHEREAS, similar Special Interrogatories were also the subject of meet and confer
10 discussions between Arana and HNCl related to Arana's Special Interrogatories Nos. 15-17 and
11 19-21, which sought the following information:
12 15. For each POTENTIAL CLASS MEMBER, please state how many
meal break premiums have been paid DURING THE RELEVANT TIME PERIOD.
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16. Please state the beginning and end dates when meal period
14 premiums were paid to POTENTIAL CLASS MEMBERS.
15 17. Please state the total dollar amount in meal period premiums that
were paid to each POTENTIAL CLASS MEMBER DURING THE RELEVANT
16 TIME PERIOD.
17 19. For each POTENTIAL CLASS MEMBER, please state how many
rest break premiums have been paid DURING THE RELEVANT TIME PERIOD.
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20. Please state the beginning and end dates when rest period premiums
19 were paid to POTENTIAL CLASS MEMBERS.
20 21. Please state the dollar amount in rest period premiums that were paid
to each POTENTIAL CLASS MEMBER DURING THE RELEVANT TIME
21 PERIOD.
22 WHEREAS, on April 30, 2018, Arana and HNCl agreed that a sampling of data for 500
23 random putative class members would be sufficient for HNCl to respond to Arana's above
24 mentioned discovery at the pre-certification stage, subject to any sampling agreement reached with
25 Spears or as otherwise ordered by the Court.
26 WHEREAS, on May 1, 2018, Spears declined to accept the same sample size without
27 additional discussion as to HNCI's burden and the meet and confer negotiations thereafter stalled.
28 WHEREAS, on May 7, 2018, Spears and Defendant HNCl submitted Status Reports
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1 regarding their meet and confer efforts to the Court.
2 WHEREAS, on May 10, 2018, the Court continued the pending hearing on Spears's
3 Motions to Compel to June 1, 2018 and directed the parties to resume meet and confer discussions
4 to assess Spears's request to allow her third party expert to extract the anonymized data.
5 WHEREAS, the Parties were unavailable on June I, 2018 and requested the hearing be
6 continued until June 19, 2018.
7 WHEREAS, on May 16,2018, counsel for Spears and HNCl had a telephonic meeting with
8 Spears's expert from SETEC Security Technologies, Inc., regarding how he proposed to extract the
9 data wherein he confirmed that, with the appropriate permissions, extracting the requested data
10 would be a straight-forward query process that could be completed in four to six hours total for the
11 time and payroll data and eight to twenty hours for the wage statements, that the amount of data
12 extracted is not an impediment to its production, and that a Comma Separate Values (.csv)fileis
13 more appropriate and less burdensome than attempting to extract the expected volume of data into
14 multiple Excel spreadsheets.
15 WHEREAS, Spears's counsel agreed to accept the requested data in a .csvfileformat.
16 WHEREAS, the modified format significantly reduced HNCI's burden in extracting,
17 formatting, and quality control reviewing this data prior to production.
18 WHEREAS, HNCl has committed to producing anonymized timekeeping and payroll data
19 in electronic .csvfilesfor all non-exempt HNCl employees from the following operative and legacy
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21 a. Timekeeping records from January I, 2017 to May 11, 2018, from EmpCenicr.
22 b. Payroll recordsfi-omJanuary 1, 2017 to May 11, 2018 (May 18, 2018, paycheck
23 issue date), from ADP.
24 c. Timekeeping and payroll records from the archived PeopleSoft system from April
25 5, 2013 through December 31, 2016.
26 NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties hereto, by and among their counsel of record, stipulate
27 that HNCI's production of .csvfilescontaining anonymized payroll and timekeeping data for all
28 non-exempt employees from April 5, 2013 to May II, 2018, will satisfy HNCI's obligation to
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1 produce documents in response to the following discovery requests:
2 Spears: Request for Production of Documents Nos. 20, 21, and 22;
3 Arana: Requests for Production of Documents Nos. 7, 8, and 9.
4 It is further stipulated that HNCl may supplement its responses to the following discovery
5 requests by referring Plaintiffs to the anonymized payroll records pursuant to Califomia Code of
6 Civil Procedure section 2030.230.
7 Spears: Special Interrogatories 6, 7 and 19;
8 Arana: Special interrogatories 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 21.
9 It is further stipulated that HNCl will provide verified supplemental responses to the
10 following discovery requests:
11 Spears: Request for Production of Documents Nos. 20, 21, and 22 and Special
12 Interrogatories 6, 7 and 19;
13 Arana: Requests for Production of Documents Nos. 7, 8, and 9 and Special Interrogatories
14 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 21.
15 It is further stipulated thai Plaintiffs' acceptance of HNCI's production of .csv files
16 containing anonymized payroll and timekeeping data for all non-exempt employees from April 5,
17 2013 to May 11,2018 as satisfying HNCI's obligations to these discovery requests is made without
18 prejudice in the following circumstances:
19 If the data in the .csvfilescannot reasonably be used for the intended purpose of receiving
20 electronic payroll and timekeeping data in a manipulatable and comprehensible format. Plaintiffs
21 will explain the impediment to use of the data to Defendant and may seek to involve Plaintiff
22 Spears's expert to procure the data in a workable .csv format or other electronic data formal;
23 Plaintiffs may seek to supplement the data as to the time frame between the end date of
24 current production and a later date, as necessary based on the length of lime the litigation continues;
25 If a class is certified. Plaintiffs may seek to supplement the data with the names of the
26 employees within the certified class.
27 It is further stipulated that Defendant will produce the .csv files containing anonymized
28 payroll and timekeeping data for all non-exempt employees from April 5, 2013 to May 11, 2018,
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by no later than July 6,2018.
2 It is further stipulated that, based on the above, the hearing regarding Plaintiff Spears's
3 Motion to Compel Discovery set for June 19, 2018 is unnecessary at this time and, subject to the
4 Court's approval, is hereby vacated.
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Dated: June 18,2018 TIMOTHY J. LONG
6 NICHOLAS J. HORTON
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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Attomeys for Defendant
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Dated: June 18,2018 VICTORIA B. RIVAPALACIO
12 Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De BIouw LLP
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Dated: June 18,2018 SHAUN SETAREH
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Setareh Law Group
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2 It isfijrtherstipulated that, based on the above, the hearing regarding Plaintiff Spears's
3 Motion to Compel Discovery set for June 19, 2018 is unnecessary at this time and, subject to the
4 Court's approval, is hereby vacated.
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Dated: June 18,2018 TIMOTHY J. LONG
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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Dated: June 18,2018 VICTORIA B. RIVAPALACIO
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Dated: June 18, 2018 SHAUN SETAREH
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1 PROOF OF SERVICE
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3 I am more than eighteen years old and not a party to this action. My business address is
4 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, 400 Capitol Mall, Suite 3000, Sacramento, Califomia
5 95814.
6 On June 18, 2018,1 served the following document(s):
7 STIPULATION AND JPROPOSEDl ORDER
REGARDING DOCUMENT PRODUCTION
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9 mi (BY MAIL) By placing a tme copy of the foregoing document(s) in a sealed
10 envelope addressed as set forth below. I placed each such envelope for collection and mailing
11 following ordinary business practices. I am readily familiar with this Firm's practice for
12 collection and processing of correspondence for mailing. Under that practice, the correspondence
13 would be deposited with the United States Postal Service on that same day, with postage thereon
14 fiilly prepaid at Sacramento, Califomia, in the ordinary course ofbusiness, on the interested
15 parties in this action by placing true and correct copies thereof in sealed envelope(s) addressed as
16 follows:
17 Norman B. Blumenthal Attomeys for Plaintiff Andrea Spears
18 Kyle R. Nordrehaug
Aparajit Bhowmik Telephone:(858)551-1223
19 Victoria B. Rivapalacio Facsimile: (858) 551-1232
BLUMENTHAL, NORDREHAUG &
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2255 Calle Clara kvleffiibamlawca.com
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La Jolla, CA 92037 AJ@bamlawca.com
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Shaun Setareh Attomeys for Plaintiff Tomas R. Arana
24 H. Scott Leviant
25 SETAREH LAW GROUP Telephone: (310)888-7771
9454 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 907 Facsimile: (310)888-0109
26 Beveriy Hills, CA 90212
shaunfgtsetarehlaw.com
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1 13 (BY EMAIL AS A MATTER OF COURTESY) By U-ansmitting a tme pdf copy
2 of the foregoing document(s) by e-mail transmissionfirompheath@orrick.com to the interested
3 parties only as indicated on the below service list at the e-mail addresses set forth on said service
4 list. Said transmission(s) were completed on the aforesaid date at the time stated on declarant's e-
5 mail transmission record. Each such transmission was reported as complete and without error.
6 • (BY ELECTRONIC FILING VIA CASE MANAGEMENT/ ELECTRONIC
7 CASE FILING: By transmitting via e-filing through the Case Management/Electronic Case
8 Filing ("CM/ECF") system, to be sent electronically and simultaneously to the registered
9 participants as identified on the Notice of Electronic Filing ("NEF"), including the following:
10 • (BY OVERNIGHT DELIVERY) I deposited in a box or other facility regularly
11 maintained by UPS, a true copy of the foregoing document(s) in a sealed envelope or package
12 designated by UPS, addressed as set forth on the attached mailing list, with fees for ovemight
13 delivery paid or provided for:
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Norman B. Blumenthal Attomeys for Plaintiff Andrea Spears
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Kyle R. Nordrehaug
16 Aparajit Bhowmik Telephone: (858) 551-1223
Piya Mukherjee Facsimile: (858) 551-1232
17 Victoria B. Rivapalacio
BLUMENTHAL, NORDREHAUG & norm@bamlawca.com
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19 2255 Calle Clara AJ@.bamlawca.com
La Jolla, CA 92037 victoria@bamlawca.com
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Shaun Setareh Attorneys for Plaintiff Tomas R. Arana
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SETAREH LAW GROUP Telephone: (310)888-7771
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shaun@setarehlaw.com
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26 • (BY FACSIMILE) By transmitting a tme copy of the foregoing document(s) via
27 facsimile transmission from this Firm's sending facsimile machine, whose telephone number is
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1 on the attached mailing list. Said transmission(s) were completed on the aforesaid date at the time
2 stated on the transmission record issued by this Firm's sending facsimile machine. Each such
3 transmission was reported as complete and without ertor and a transmission report was properly
4 issued by this Firm's sending facsimile machine for each interested party served. A tme copy of
5 each transmission report is attached to the office copy of this proof of service and will be
6 provided upon request.
7 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Califomia that the above
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