Bo Avery, et al. v. TEKSYSTEMS, INC.

• Court: District Court, N.D. California
• Decided: March 5, 2026
• Docket: 3:22-cv-02733
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 BO AVERY, et al., Case No. 22-cv-02733-JSC

8 Plaintiffs, PRETRIAL ORDER NO. 4: REVISED 9 v. CASE SCHEDULE

10 TEKSYSTEMS, INC., Defendant. 11

12 13 Following the further case management conference held on March 4, 2026, the Court 14 ORDERS: 15 1. Defendant previously produced payroll data, email metadata, Connected data, Microsoft 16 Teams metadata, and expense reimbursement data for class members not subject to 17 Defendant’s Motion to Compel Arbitration. Defendant shall supplement the productions 18 by March 6, 2026 with the following data for: 19 a. 123 Class Members who were subject to Defendant’s Motion to Compel 20 Arbitration. 21 b. 15 individuals Plaintiffs identified as potential additional Class Members, subject to 22 confirmation that these individuals satisfy the certified class definition. 23 c. Class Members identified to Defendant by Plaintiffs for potential gaps in Microsoft 24 Teams chat data, email metadata, and Connected data, to the extent such 25 information exists. If Defendant asserts the data does not exist, it shall produce an 26 affidavit explaining how it searched for the data. 27 2. By March 6, 2026, the Parties shall meet and confer regarding Defendant’s Microsoft 1 the Parties should submit a joint discovery letter by March 17, 2026. 2 3. The Court certified a class of “all current and former Recruiters employed by Defendant in 3 California from January 28, 2019 to the final date of judgment.” (Dkt. No. 163 at 5.) 4 Defining a class through the final date of judgment is unworkable, and Defendant also 5 notes Recruiters hired after March 2025 are party to mutual arbitration agreements. See 6 Lawson vy. Grubhub, Inc., 13 F.4th 908, 913 (9th Cir. 2021). The Parties shall meet and 7 confer on an amended class definition and provide a joint update to the Court by March 18, 8 2026. 9 4. Additional Deadlines: 10 e Affirmative Expert Disclosures and Reports: August 21, 2026 11 e Rebuttal Expert Disclosures and Reports: November 20, 2026 12 e Damages Discovery Deadline: December 11, 2026 13 e Expert Discovery Deadline: December 22, 2026 14 e Pretrial Conference April 15, 2027 3 15 e Jury Trial May 3, 2027 a 16 5. The Court sets a further case management conference for July 15, 2027 at 2:00 p.m. via 17 Zoom video. An updated statement, including the Plaintiffs’ tentative proposed verdict Zz 18 form and initial trial plan, is due one week in advance. 19 IT IS SO ORDERED. 20 Dated: March 5, 2026

22 ne JAGQUELINE SCOTT CORL 23 United States District Judge 24 25 26 27 28