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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO VACATE 

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

AND ASSOCIATED DEADLINES

CASE NO. 3:11-cv-02456-JSW

27372536_1.DOC 

THAD A. DAVIS (SBN 220503)

thad.davis@ropesgray.com 

ROCKY C. TSAI (SBN 221452) 

rocky.tsai@ropesgray.com 

ROPES & GRAY LLP 

Three Embarcadero Center, Ste 300 

San Francisco, California 94111-4006 

Tel: (415) 315- 6300 

Fax: (415) 315-6350 

HARVEY J. WOLKOFF 

harvey.wolkoff@ropesgray.com 

MARK P. SZPAK 

mark.szpak@ropesgray.com 

LARA A. ORAVEC 

lara.oravec@ropesgray.com 

ROPES & GRAY LLP 

Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street 

Boston, MA 02199-3600 

Tel: (617) 951-7606 

Fax: (617) 235-0215 

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

THOMAS FLAMSON and JIN CHUNG, 

individually and on behalf of all others similarly 

situated, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, SONY 

COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA 

INC., SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT 

AMERICA LLC, SONY ONLINE 

ENTERTAINMENT LLC, SONY NETWORK 

ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL LLC, 

and SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT 

AMERICA INC. 

Defendants. 

Case No. 3:11-cv-02456-JSW

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER TO VACATE CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

AND ASSOCIATED DEADLINES 

 Judge: Hon. Jeffrey S. White 

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STIPULATION TO VACATE CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE AND 

ASSOCIATED DEADLINES

1. Defendants Sony Corporation of America (SCA), Sony Online Entertainment LLC 

(SOE), Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA), Sony Network Entertainment 

International LLC (SNEI), and Sony Network Entertainment America Inc. (SNEA), as well as 

certain related entities (collectively, the “Sony Defendants”), have been named as defendants in at 

least sixty-two (62) putative class action lawsuits, including this lawsuit, to date; 

2. A motion is currently pending before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation 

(the “JPML”) to centralize this and other matters before a single district court, to which multiple 

responses, including the Sony Defendants’ response, have been filed to date and are under 

submission before the JPML, with a hearing date of July 28, 2011; 

3. The current date of the initial Case Management Conference (“CMC”) in this case 

is August 26, 2011 and certain other deadlines are set forth in the Order Setting Initial Case 

Management Conference and ADR Deadlines; 

4. The parties agree that it is in the best interests of all parties to vacate the CMC and 

associated deadlines in this case in order to facilitate the scheduling of this matter in coordination 

with the schedule for the motion and hearing before the JPML; 

NOW, THEREFORE, all parties, by and through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate 

for an order as follows: 

In light of the motion for centralization pending before the JPML, the CMC and all 

associated deadlines, including those set forth in the Order Setting Initial Case Management 

Conference and ADR Deadlines, in the above-entitled action shall be vacated and further pretrial 

and scheduling matters shall be addressed by the transferee judge following centralization or, in 

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the event such motion for centralization is denied, the defendants will notify the Court within 7 

days after such denial, so that the Court may at that time issue a revised case schedule. 

Dated: July 27, 2011 ANDREW JOSEPH SOKOLOWSKI 

DAVID LISHIAN CHENG 

MIRIAM LEIGH SCHIMMEL 

INITIATIVE LEGAL GROUP APC 

By: /s/ Andrew J. Sokolowski /s/ [as authorized] 

Andrew J. Sokolowski 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

THOMAS FLAMSON 

JIN CHUNG 

Dated: July 27, 2011 HARVEY WOLKOFF

THAD A. DAVIS 

ROCKY C. TSAI 

ROPES & GRAY LLP 

By: /s/ Rocky C. Tsai /s/ 

Rocky C. Tsai 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT 

AMERICA LLC and 

SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT 

INTERNATIONAL LLC 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: By: _____________________________ 

 U. S. District Court Judge 

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July 28, 2011

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