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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 15:78m(a) Securities Exchange Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

In re VERISIGN, INC. SECURITIES 

LITIGATION 

This Document Relates To: 

ALL ACTIONS. 

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Master File No. C-02-2270-JW(PVT) 

CLASS ACTION

[PROPOSED] FINAL JUDGMENT AND 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE

DATE: March 12, 2007 

TIME: 9:00 a.m. 

COURTROOM: The Honorable James Ware

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This matter came before the Court for hearing pursuant to the Order of this Court, dated 

December 18, 2006, on the application of the parties for approval of the Settlement set forth in the 

Stipulation of Settlement and Release dated as of December 12, 2006 (the “Stipulation”). Due and 

adequate notice having been given to the Class and VeriSign shareholders as required in said Order, 

and the Court having considered all papers filed and proceedings had herein and otherwise being 

fully informed in the premises and good cause appearing therefore, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, 

ADJUDGED AND DECREED that: 

1. This Judgment incorporates by reference the definitions in the Stipulation, and all 

terms used herein shall have the same meanings as set forth in the Stipulation, unless otherwise set 

forth herein. 

2. This Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of the Federal Litigation and over 

all parties to the Litigations, including all Members of the Class. 

3. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, this Court hereby approves the 

Settlement set forth in the Stipulation and finds that said Settlement is, in all respects, fair, just, 

reasonable and adequate to the Class, VeriSign shareholders and Defendants. 

4. Except as to any individual claim of those Persons (identified in Exhibit 1 hereto) 

who have validly and timely requested exclusion from the Class, the Federal Litigation and all 

claims contained therein, as well as all of the Released Class Claims, are dismissed with prejudice as 

to the Lead Plaintiffs and the other Members of the Class, as against VeriSign and each of the 

Individual Class Defendants and their Related Parties, including their insurance carriers. The 

Settling Parties are to bear their own costs, except as otherwise provided in the Stipulation. 

5. The Court has reviewed and considered the objection filed on behalf of George and 

Maribeth Lebus. The Court finds the objection to be without merit and hereby overrules the 

objection. 

6. The Court finds that the Stipulation and Settlement are fair, just, reasonable, and 

adequate as to each of the Settling Parties, and that the Stipulation and Settlement are hereby finally 

approved in all respects, and the Settling Parties are hereby directed to perform its terms. 

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7. Upon the Effective Date hereof, the Lead Plaintiffs and each of the Class Members 

shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Judgment shall have, fully, finally, and forever 

released, relinquished and discharged all Released Class Claims against VeriSign and the Individual 

Class Defendants and their Related Parties, including Defendants’ insurance carriers, whether or not 

any such Class Member executes and delivers the Proof of Claim and Release. 

8. All Class Members are hereby forever barred and enjoined from prosecuting any of 

the Released Class Claims against VeriSign and the Individual Class Defendants and their Related 

Parties, including Defendants’ insurance carriers. 

9. Upon the Effective Date hereto, each of the Released Persons shall be deemed to 

have, and by operation of this Judgment shall have, fully, finally, and forever released, relinquished 

and discharged each and all of the Class Members, Derivative Plaintiffs, the Nominal Defendant, 

counsel to the Lead Plaintiffs, and counsel to the Derivative Plaintiffs from all claims (including 

Unknown Claims), arising out of, relating to, or in connection with the institution, prosecution, 

assertion, settlement or resolution of the Litigations or the Released Claims. 

10. Upon the Effective Date hereto, the Derivative Plaintiffs and the Nominal Defendant 

shall be deemed to have, and by operation of the Dismissal shall have, fully, finally, and forever 

released, relinquished and discharged all Released Derivative Claims against the Individual 

Derivative Defendants and their Related Parties, including Defendants’ insurance carriers. 

11. The Notice of Pendency and Proposed Settlement of Class Action (“Notice”) given to 

the Class was the best notice practicable under the circumstances, including the individual notice to 

all Members of the Class who could be identified through reasonable effort. Said notice provided 

the best notice practicable under the circumstances of those proceedings and of the matters set forth 

therein, including the proposed Settlement set forth in the Stipulation, to all Persons entitled to such 

notice. The Notice and the Summary Notice fully satisfied the requirements of Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 23 and the requirements of due process. 

12. Any plan of allocation submitted by Lead Counsel or any order entered regarding any 

attorneys’ fee and expense application shall in no way disturb or affect this Final Judgment and shall 

be considered separate from this Final Judgment. 

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13. Neither the Stipulation nor the Settlement contained therein, nor any act performed or 

document executed pursuant to or in furtherance of the Stipulation or the Settlement: (a) is or may be 

deemed to be or may be used as an admission of, or evidence of, the validity of any Released Claim, 

or of any wrongdoing or liability of the Defendants, or (b) is or may be deemed to be or may be used 

as an admission of, or evidence of, any fault or omission of any of the Defendants in any civil, 

criminal or administrative proceeding in any court, administrative agency or other tribunal. 

Defendants may file the Stipulation and/or the Judgment from this action in any other action that 

may be brought against them in order to support a defense or counterclaim based on principles of res 

judicata, collateral estoppel, release, good faith settlement, judgment bar or reduction, or any theory 

of claim preclusion or issue preclusion or similar defense or counterclaim. 

14. Without affecting the finality of this Judgment in any way, this Court hereby retains 

continuing jurisdiction over: (a) implementation of this Settlement and any award or distribution of 

the Settlement Fund, including interest earned thereon; (b) disposition of the Settlement Fund; 

(c) hearing and determining applications for attorneys’ fees, interest and expenses in the Federal 

Litigation; and (d) all parties hereto for the purpose of construing, enforcing and administering the 

Stipulation. 

15. The Court finds that during the course of the Federal Litigation, the Settling Parties 

and their respective counsel at all times complied with the requirements of Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 11. 

16. In the event that the Settlement does not become effective in accordance with the 

terms of the Stipulation, or the Effective Date does not occur, or in the event that the Settlement 

Fund, or any portion thereof, is returned to the Defendants or their insurers, then this Judgment shall 

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be rendered null and void to the extent provided by and in accordance with the Stipulation and shall 

be vacated and, in such event, all orders entered and releases delivered in connection herewith shall 

be null and void to the extent provided by and in accordance with the Stipulation. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: _________________________ 

THE HONORABLE JAMES WARE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

Submitted by: 

LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER 

 RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP 

PATRICK J. COUGHLIN 

JEFFREY W. LAWRENCE 

DENNIS J. HERMAN 

CHRISTOPHER P. SEEFER 

SHIRLEY H. HUANG 

JENNIE LEE ANDERSON 

100 Pine Street, Suite 2600 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 415/288-4545 

415/288-4534 (fax) 

LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER 

 RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP 

WILLIAM S. LERACH 

JOY ANN BULL 

s/ Joy Ann Bull 

JOY ANN BULL 

655 West Broadway, Suite 1900 

San Diego, CA 92101 

Telephone: 619/231-1058 

619/231-7423 (fax) 

Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs 

LAW OFFICES BERNARD M. GROSS, P.C.

BERNARD M. GROSS 

DEBORAH R. GROSS 

Wanamaker Bldg., Suite 450 

100 Penn Square East 

Philadelphia, PA 19107 

Telephone: 215/561-3600 

215/561-3000 (fax) 

April 23 2007

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COHEN, MILSTEIN, HAUSFELD 

 & TOLL, P.L.L.C. 

STEVEN J. TOLL 

LISA M. MEZZETTI 

JOSHUA S. DEVORE 

1100 New York Avenue, N.W. 

West Tower, Suite 500 

Washington, DC 20005-3964 

Telephone: 202/408-4600 

202/408-4699 (fax) 

SCHATZ & NOBEL, P.C. 

ANDREW M. SCHATZ 

JEFFREY S. NOBEL 

NANCY A. KULESA 

One Corporate Center 

20 Church Street, Suite 1700 

Hartford, CT 06103 

Telephone: 860/493-6292 

860/493-6290 (fax) 

Additional Counsel for Federal Plaintiffs 

ROBBINS UMEDA & FINK, LLP 

MARC M. UMEDA 

610 West Ash Street, Suite 1800 

San Diego, CA 92101 

Telephone: 619/525-3990 

619/525-3991 (fax) 

Counsel for Derivative Plaintiffs 

SCHIFFRIN & BARROWAY, LLP 

ROBERT B. WEISER 

280 King of Prussia Road 

Radnor, PA 19087 

Telephone: 610/667-7706 

610/667-7056 (fax) 

Additional Counsel for Derivative Plaintiffs 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on March 5, 2007, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of 

the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the e-mail 

addresses denoted on the attached Electronic Mail Notice List, and I hereby certify that I have 

mailed the foregoing document or paper via the United States Postal Service to the non-CM/ECF 

participants indicated on the attached Manual Notice List. 

I further certify that I caused this document to be forwarded to the following designated 

Internet site at: http://securities.lerachlaw.com/. 

 s/ Joy Ann Bull 

 JOY ANN BULL 

LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER 

 RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP 

655 West Broadway, Suite 1900 

San Diego, CA 92101-3301 

Telephone: 619/231-1058 

619/231-7423 (fax) 

E-mail:JoyB@lerachlaw.com

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