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  • Andrea Spears vs. Health Net of California Inc Unlimited Civil document preview
  • Andrea Spears vs. Health Net of California Inc Unlimited Civil document preview
  • Andrea Spears vs. Health Net of California Inc Unlimited Civil document preview
  • Andrea Spears vs. Health Net of California Inc Unlimited Civil document preview
  • Andrea Spears vs. Health Net of California Inc Unlimited Civil document preview
  • Andrea Spears vs. Health Net of California Inc Unlimited Civil document preview
  • Andrea Spears vs. Health Net of California Inc Unlimited Civil document preview
  • Andrea Spears vs. Health Net of California Inc Unlimited Civil document preview
						
                                

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1 TIMOTHY J. LONG (STATE BAR NO. 137591) tjlongff/iorrick.com ?0]§ JUN ! 8 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 6 STEPHANIE GAIL LEE (STATE BAR NO. 285379) 7 stcphanic.lcc@orrick.com ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 8 777 South Figueroa Strcct, Suite 3200 Los Angeles, Califomia 90017 9 Telephone: (213)629-2020 Facsimile: (213)612-2499 10 Attorneys for Defendant il HEALTH NET OF CALIFORNIA, INC. 12 *** COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFFS ON NEXT PAGE 13 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 14 COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO 15 ANDREA SPEARS, an individual, on behalf Case No. 34-2017-00210560 16 of herself and on behalf of all persons 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 21 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 24 v. Complaint Filed: August 1,2017 25 HEALTH NET OF CALIFORNIA, INC., a 26 Califomia corporation; and DOES 1-50, inclusive, 27 Defendants. 28 4143-3461-4804 I STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED) ORDER REGARDING DOCUMENT PRODUCTION 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 4 Phone: (858)551-1223 Fax: (858)551-1232 5 Attomeys for Plaintiff ANDREA SPEARS 6 -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 10 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 11 Phone: (310) 888-7771 Fax: (310)888-0109 12 Attomeys for Plaintiff TOMAS R. ARANA 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4I43-346M804.I -2- STIPULATION AND (PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING DOCUMENT PRODUCTION 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. 13 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). 22 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 4143-3461-4804 I STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING DOCUMENT PRODUCTION 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). 3 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). 6 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. 13 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. 18 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 4I43-346I-4804.I -4 - STIPULATION AND JPROPOSEDJ ORDER RCOARDiNC DOCUMENT PRODUCTION 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 20 systems: 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 4l43-34fil->B04 l - 5 - STIPULATION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER REGARDING DOCUMENT PRODUCTION I 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, 4143-3461-4804,1 - 6 - STIPULATION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER REGARDING DOCUMENT PRODUCTION 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. 5 Dated: June 18,2018 TIMOTHY J. LONG 6 NICHOLAS J. HORTON Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 7 8 9 Nicholas J. Horton Attomeys for Defendant 10 HEALTH NET OF CALIFORNIA, INC. II Dated: June 18,2018 VICTORIA B. RIVAPALACIO 12 Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De BIouw LLP 13 14 6^ Victoria B. Rivapalacio 15 Attorneys for Plaintiff ANDREA SPEARS 16 Dated: June 18,2018 SHAUN SETAREH 17 H. SCOTT LEVIANT Setareh Law Group 18 19 20 H. Scott Leviant 21 Attorneys for Plaintiff TOMAS R. ARANA 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4143-3461-4804 I STIPULATION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER REGARDING DOCUMENT PRODUCTION I by no later than July 6, 2018. 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. 5 Dated: June 18,2018 TIMOTHY J. LONG 6 NICHOLAS J. HORTON Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 7 8 9 Nicholas J. Horton Attorneys for Defendant 10 HEALTH NET OF CALIFORNIA, INC. II Dated: June 18,2018 VICTORIA B. RIVAPALACIO 12 Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP 13 14 (>6 Victoria B. Rivapalacio 15 Attomeys for Plaintiff ANDREA SPEARS 16 Dated: June 18, 2018 SHAUN SETAREH 17 H. SCOTT LEVIANT Setareh Law Group 18 19 20 H. Scott Leviant 21 Attorneys for Plaintiff TOMAS R. ARANA 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4143-3461-4804.1 7- STIPULATION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER REGARDING DOCUMENT PRODUCTION ORDER 2 PURSUANT TO THE STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 3 4 Dated: 2018 r Judge of the SuperlorCourt 5 CHRISTOPHER E. KRUEGER 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4143-3461-4804.1 -8- STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING DOCUMENT PRODUCTION 1 PROOF OF SERVICE 2 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 8 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 & 20 BHOMIK normraibamlawca.com 2255 Calle Clara kvleffiibamlawca.com 21 La Jolla, CA 92037 AJ@bamlawca.com 22 victoria@.bamlawca.com 23 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 27 scott@.setarehIaw.com 28 PROOF OF SERVICE 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: 14 Norman B. Blumenthal Attomeys for Plaintiff Andrea Spears 15 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 18 BHOMIK kvle@bamlawca.com 19 2255 Calle Clara AJ@.bamlawca.com La Jolla, CA 92037 victoria@bamlawca.com 20 Shaun Setareh Attorneys for Plaintiff Tomas R. Arana 21 H. Scott Leviant SETAREH LAW GROUP Telephone: (310)888-7771 22 9454 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 907 Facsimile: (310)888-0109 23 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 shaun@setarehlaw.com 24 scott@.setarehlaw.com 25 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 28 (916) 329-4900, to each interested party at the facsimile machine telephone number(s) set forth PROOFOF SERVICE 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 8 is tme and correct. 9 10 Executed on June 18,2018, at Sacramento, Califomia. 11 12 Patricia M. Heath 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 PROOFOF SERVICE