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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 15:77 Securities Fraud

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KEITH E. EGGLETON, State Bar No.159842 

RODNEY G. STRICKLAND, State Bar No. 161934 

JONI L. OSTLER, State Bar No. 230009 

WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

Professional Corporation 

650 Page Mill Road 

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1050 

Telephone: (650) 493-9300 

Facsimile: (650) 565-5100 

Email: keggleton@wsgr.com 

Email: rstrickland@wsgr.com 

Email: jostler@wsgr.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

BIGBAND NETWORKS, INC., AMIR BASSANESKENAZI, FREDERICK A. BALL, RAN OZ, 

LLOYD CARNEY, DEAN GILBERT, KENNETH 

A. GOLDMAN, GAL ISRAELY, BRUCE I. 

SACHS, ROBERT J. SACHS and GEOFFREY Y. 

YANG 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JAMES WILTJER, On Behalf of Himself and All 

Others Similarly Situated, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BIGBAND NETWORKS, INC., AMIR BASSANESKENAZI, FREDERICK A. BALL, RAN OZ, 

LLOYD CARNEY, DEAN GILBERT, KENNETH

A. GOLDMAN, GAL ISRAELY, BRUCE I. 

SACHS, ROBERT J. SACHS, GEOFFREY Y. 

YANG, MORGAN STANLEY & CO. 

INCORPORATED, MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, 

FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED, 

JEFFERIES & COMPANY, INC., COWEN AND 

COMPANY, LLC, THINKEQUITY PARTNERS 

LLC and DOES 1-25, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

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Case No. 08-22-CRB 

STIPULATION EXTENDING TIME 

TO RESPOND TO COMPLAINT 

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 WHEREAS, on December 3, 2007, plaintiff James Wiltjer filed his complaint in the 

above-captioned action in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Francisco, 

and on January 2, 2008, all defendants jointly removed this action to this Court; 

WHEREAS, plaintiff opposes defendants’ removal of this action and intends to file a 

motion to remand it the California Superior Court; 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 81(c), defendants’ response(s) 

to the complaint are currently due on January 9, 2008; 

WHEREAS, on January 3, 2008 defendants BigBand Networks, Inc., Amir BassanEskenazi, Frederick A. Ball, Ran Oz, Lloyd Carney, Dean Gilbert, Kenneth A. Goldman, Gal 

Israely, Bruce I. Sachs, Robert J. Sachs and Geoffrey Y. Yang filed a Motion for Administrative 

Relief in the substantially similar first-filed case entitled Mohanty v. Bassan-Eskenazi, et al., 

Case No. C 07 5101 (SBA), to consider whether this case should be related to that first-filed 

action, and defendants Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & 

Smith Incorporated, Jefferies & Company, Inc., Cowen And Company, LLC, and Thinkequity 

Partners filed a joinder in that motion on January 3, 2008; 

WHEREAS, plaintiff has agreed to give all defendants an extension to respond to the 

complaint until after the Court rules on plaintiff’s contemplated motion to remand, or such other 

time as the Court orders; and 

WHEREAS, by granting this extension, plaintiff does not concede, and indeed contests, 

that removal of this action was proper, and indeed, believes that the case should have remained 

in the California Superior Court where it was properly filed under § 11 of the Securities Act and 

further, intends to move to have the case remanded in a timely manner, and thus, in no way 

waives any rights to remand the matter. 

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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED that defendants need not respond 

to the complaint until after the Court rules on plaintiff’s contemplated motion to remand, or such 

other time as the Court orders. 

Dated: January 9, 2008 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

Professional Corporation 

By: /s/ Keith E. Eggleton 

Keith E. Eggleton 

Rodney G. Strickland 

650 Page Mill Road 

Palo Alto, CA 94304 

Tel.: (650) 493-9300 

Fax: (650) 493-6811 

Counsel for Defendants BigBand Networks, Inc., 

Amir Bassan-Eskenazi, Ran Oz, Frederick Ball, 

Gal Israely, Dean Gilbert, Ken Goldman, Lloyd 

Carney, Bruce Sachs, Robert Sachs and Geoffrey 

Yang 

Dated: January 9, 2008 COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER RUDMAN & 

ROBBINS LLP 

By: /s/ Jeffrey W. Lawrence 

Jeffrey W. Lawrence 

100 Pine Street, Suite 2600 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Tel.: (415) 288-4545 

Fax: (415) 288-4534 

Counsel for Plaintiff James Wiltjer 

Dated: January 9, 2008 ORRICK HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

By: /s/ Michael C. Tu 

Michael C. Tu 

777 South Figueroa Street 

Suite 3200 

Los Angeles, CA 90017-5855 

Tel.: (213) 629-2020 

Fax: (213) 612-2499 

Email: mtu@orrick.com 

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Robert P. Varian 

ORRICK HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP

405 Howard Street 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2669 

Tel.: (415) 773-5934 

Fax: (415) 773-5759 

Email: rvarian@orrick.com 

Counsel for Defendants Morgan Stanley & Co. 

Incorporated, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & 

Smith Incorporated, Jefferies & Company, Inc., 

Cowen and Company, LLC and ThinkEquity 

Partners LLC 

ATTESTATION

I, Joni Ostler, am the ECF user whose identification and password are being used to file 

this STIPULATION EXTENDING TIME TO RESPOND TO COMPLAINT. In compliance 

with General Order 45.X.B, I hereby attest that Keith E. Eggleton, Michael C. Tu and Jeffrey W. 

Lawrence have all concurred in this filing. 

Dated: January 9, 2008 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

Professional Corporation 

By: /s/ Joni Ostler 

 Joni Ostler 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

Janaury 11, 2008

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