Joint MOTION for Extension of Time to File Motion for Class Certification and to… — Bofa Ca Unemployment (Dkt. 274)

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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California · No. 3:21-md-02992-GPC-MSB · Doc. 274 · 2024-05-03 · Docket on CourtListener

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ACTIVE/129344610.1 
 
Joint Motion to Extend Case Schedule 
 
 
 
 
  
 
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BRIAN DANITZ (SBN 247403) 
bdanitz@cpmlegal.com 
KARIN B. SWOPE (pro hac vice) 
kswope@cpmlegal.com 
ANDREW F. KIRTLEY (SBN 328023) 
akirtley@cpmlegal.com 
COTCHETT PITRE & McCARTHY, LLP 
840 Malcolm Road, Suite 200 
Burlingame, CA 94010 
Telephone: (650) 697-6000 
Fax: (650) 697-0577 
MICHAEL RUBIN (SBN 80618) 
mrubin@altber.com 
CONNIE K. CHAN (SBN 284230) 
cchan@altber.com 
ALTSHULER BERZON LLP 
177 Post Street, Suite 300 
San Francisco, CA 94108 
Telephone: (415) 421-7151 
Fax: (415) 362-8064 
Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs and  
the Proposed Class  
(Additional Counsel Listed Below) 
JAMES W. MCGARRY (pro hac vice) 
JMcGarry@goodwinlaw.com 
GOODWIN PROCTER LLP 
100 Northern Avenue 
Boston, MA 02210 
Tel.: +1 617 570 1000 
Fax: +1 617 523 1231 
 
SABRINA M. ROSE-SMITH (pro hac 
vice) 
MATTHEW L. RIFFEE (pro hac vice) 
SRoseSmith@goodwinlaw.com 
MRiffee@goodwinlaw.com 
GOODWIN PROCTER LLP 
1900 N Street NW 
Washington, DC 20036 
Tel.: +1 202 346 4000 
Fax: +1 202 346 4444 
 
Attorneys for Defendant 
Bank of America, N.A. 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 
 
IN RE BANK OF AMERICA 
CALIFORNIA UNEMPLOYMENT 
BENEFITS LITIGATION 
Case No. 3:21-md-02992-GPC-MSB 
 
JOINT MOTION TO EXTEND  
CASE SCHEDULE 
This Document Relates to All Actions 
 
Judge: 
Hon. Gonzalo P. Curiel 
 
 
 
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Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 6(b) and 16(b)(4), Civil Local 
Rule 7.2, and this Court’s Civil Chambers Rules and Civil Pretrial and Trial 
Procedures, Plaintiffs and Defendant Bank of America, N.A. (the “parties”) jointly 
request that the pretrial schedule be extended as set forth in the parties’ proposed 
modified case schedule below.  
Plaintiffs believe that good cause exists to grant the parties’ joint request for a 
continuance because the Court has not yet issued an order on Plaintiffs’ Motion for 
Reconsideration of Dismissal with Prejudice of the UCL Claim (ECF 151) and the 
Bank has not yet filed its Answer.1 The pleadings in the case therefore are not yet 
settled. Without a ruling on the pending motion for reconsideration, Plaintiffs do not 
know whether the UCL is a live claim in this case properly addressed in their 
forthcoming motion for class certification, and without Bank of America’s Answer, 
Plaintiffs likewise are unable to address Bank of America’s affirmative defenses.   
The parties previously jointly sought a modification of the class certification 
deadline and all subsequent dates based in part on the same ground stated herein, 
which the Court granted on December 28, 2023 for good cause shown. See ECF 197 
at 3; ECF 198 at 2 (“Plaintiffs would like the Court to address … [the] motion for 
reconsideration, and then have Defendant file an Answer, before moving for class 
certification. … For good cause shown, the Court GRANTS the joint motion.”). The 
Court issued a second amended scheduling order on March 4, 2024. See ECF 229. 
For the foregoing reasons, the parties respectfully request that the Court 
amend the scheduling order as set forth below: 
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1 Also pending is the Bank’s Motion to Dismiss the First Amended Master 
Consolidated Complaint (ECF 146), but that motion is directed only at the claims of 
certain Individual Plaintiffs and the parties’ position is that it need not be resolved 
before Class Plaintiffs move for class certification. 
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PROPOSED MODIFIED CASE SCHEDULE: 
Event 
Current 
Date 
Proposed Date 
Defendant’s Answer to all 
class allegations (i.e., all 
FAMCC paragraphs except 
paragraphs 286-526) and 
Defendant’s affirmative 
defenses 
FRCP 
30 days after issuance of the 
order on Plaintiffs’ motion for 
reconsideration [ECF 151] 
Defendant’s Answer to all 
individual plaintiff allegations 
(i.e., FAMCC paragraphs 286-
526) 
FRCP 
30 days after issuance of the 
order on Defendant’s motion to 
dismiss [ECF 146] 
Motion for Class Certification 
5/14/24 
14 days after Defendant files its 
Answer to all class allegations 
and its affirmative defenses 
Opp. to Motion for Class 
Certification 
6/25/24 
8 weeks after Motion for Class 
Certification 
Reply ISO Motion for Class 
Certification 
7/23/24 
4 weeks after Opp. to Motion 
for Class Certification 
Fact Discovery Completed 
8/13/24 
3 weeks after Class Certification 
Reply 
Expert Disclosures 
9/17/24 
5 weeks after Fact Discovery 
Completed 
Rebuttal Expert Disclosures 
10/11/24 
4 weeks after Expert 
Disclosures 
Expert Discovery Completed 
11/12/24 
4 weeks after Rebuttal Expert 
Disclosures 
The parties further request that the Pretrial Motions Deadline and all 
subsequent deadlines be continued accordingly and be set upon issuance of the 
Court’s order on Plaintiffs’ motion for reconsideration (ECF 151). 
Respectfully submitted, 
Dated:  May 3, 2024 
COTCHETT, PITRE & McCARTHY, LLP 
 
By: /s/ Brian Danitz              
 
       
JOSEPH W. COTCHETT  
BRIAN DANITZ  
KARIN B. SWOPE  
ANDREW F. KIRTLEY 
 
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Dated:  May 3, 2024 
ALTSHULER BERZON LLP 
 
By: /s/ Connie K. Chan 
 
 
 
MICHAEL RUBIN  
STACEY M. LEYTON  
CONNIE K. CHAN 
 
Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs and the 
Proposed Class 
 
Dated:  May 3, 2024 
 
 
By:    /s/ Matthew Riffee          
 
 
 
JAMES W. MCGARRY (pro hac vice) 
JMcGarry@goodwinlaw.com 
GOODWIN PROCTER LLP 
100 Northern Avenue 
Boston, MA  02210 
Tel.: +1 617 570 1000 
Fax: +1 617 523 1231 
 
THOMAS M. HEFFERON (pro hac vice) 
THefferon@goodwinlaw.com 
SABRINA M. ROSE-SMITH (pro hac vice) 
SRoseSmith@goodwinlaw.com 
MATTHEW L. RIFFEE (pro hac vice) 
MRiffee@goodwinlaw.com 
GOODWIN PROCTER LLP 
1900 N Street NW 
Washington, DC 20036 
Tel.: +1 202 346 4000 
Fax: +1 202 346 4444 
 
YVONNE W. CHAN (pro hac vice) 
YChan@jonesday.com 
JONES DAY 
100 High Street 
Boston, MA  02210 
Tel.: +1 617 960 3939 
Fax: +1 617 449 6999 
  
Attorneys for Defendant Bank of America, N.A. 
 
 
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SIGNATURE CERTIFICATION 
Pursuant to Section 2(f)(4) of this Court’s Electronic Case Filing 
Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual, I, Connie K. Chan, hereby certify 
that the content of this document is acceptable to all the signatories herein and that I 
have obtained counsel’s authorization to affix their electronic signatures to this 
document. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Connie K. Chan 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         
CONNIE K. CHAN 
 
 
 
 
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