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Nature of Suit Code: 470
Nature of Suit: Civil (Rico)
Cause of Action: 18:1961 Racketeering (RICO) Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL RYAN, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

 v.

GENCOR NUTRIENTS, INC., et al.,

Defendants. /

No. C 14-05682 JSW

ORDER RE MOTION FOR

ENLARGEMENT OF TIME TO

ANSWER AND JOINDER

THEREIN

On January 15, 2015, Defendants, General Nutrition Corporation, GNC Corporation,

General Nutrition Centers, Inc., S&G Properties, LLC, Direct Digital, LLC, Force Factor LLC,

Pharmafreak Holdings, Inc., Prevention, LLC, Gencor Nutrients, Inc., GE Nutrients, Inc., and

Jith Verravalli filed a motion for enlargement of time to answer or otherwise respond to

Plaintiffs’ Complaint. (Docket No. 15.) On January 20, 2015, Defendant Dreambrands, Inc.

joined in that motion. (Docket No. 25.) The Court shall refer to these Defendants collectively

as the Moving Defendants.

The Moving Defendants ask for an extension of time to answer or otherwise respond to

Plaintiffs’ complaint, on the basis that they will be filing a motion to transfer this action to the

United States District Court for the Central District of California. Accordingly, they ask the

Court to grant them an extension of time to respond until at least thirty days after the Court has

ruled on that motion. 

Plaintiffs do not oppose Defendants’ request in theory. However, Plaintiffs propose a

stay of this action until after the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (“JPML”) rules on

Plaintiffs’ pending motion to transfer an action filed in the United States District Court for the

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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District of Massachusetts to this Court and, in essence, ask that this Court defer ruling on

Defendants’ forthcoming motion to transfer, in light of the motion pending before the JPML. 

The Court GRANTS the request for an extension of time to respond as follows. The

shall not preclude Defendants from filing their motion to transfer, and they shall notice that

motion on an open and available date on this Court’s calendar, in accordance with the Northern

District Civil Local Rules. 

If Plaintiff seeks to stay this action pending a ruling from the JPML, Plaintiffs should

file a properly noticed motion seeking that relief, and they shall notice any such motion on an

open and available date on this Court’s calendar, in accordance with the Northern District Civil

Local Rules.

The filing of each motion will trigger the briefing schedules on those motions. The

Defendants shall not be required to answer or otherwise respond until after those motions have

been resolved.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 21, 2015 

JEFFREY S. WHITE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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