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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:101 Copyright Infringement

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PLAINTIFF’S EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR

ORDER CONTINUING CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE - 1

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MICHAEL R. LENNIE, CBN 48191

LAW OFFICES of MICHAEL R. LENNIE APC

2255 Avenida De La Playa, No. 7b2

La Jolla, CA 92037

Tel: 858.456.0138

Fax: 858.456.1893

Attorney for Plaintiff

FREDERIC H. MARTINI, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO

FREDERIC H. MARTINI, INC., a 

Hawaii Corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

PEARSON EDUCATION, INC., a 

Delaware Corporation, dba 

Benjamin Cummings,

Defendant

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Case No.: No. CV 04-04187 SI

PLAINTIFF FREDERIC H. MARTINI 

INC.'S EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR 

ORDER CONTINUING CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE; 

DELCARATION OF MICHAEL LENNIE 

IN SUPPORT THEREOF

Plaintiff Frederic H. Martini, Inc., hereby moves 

ex parte, for an order continuing the Case Management Conference 

currently scheduled for March 31, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. to April 

21, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.

This ex parte application is made on the grounds that 

the Court's Order that scheduled a Case Management Conference 

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for March 31, 2006, was entered on March 16, 2006, and 

plaintiff's counsel, a sole practitioner, had, prior to the 

entry of the order scheduling the Case Management Conference, 

already planned and paid for a trip to New York City and then to 

Virginia from March 28, 2006 through April5, 2006. In addition, 

Gary Alabaster, a San Francisco attorney who has been assisting 

Mr. Lennie in the prosecution of this action, had already 

planned and paid for a trip to San Diego from March 31 through 

April 2,so he is unavailable to attend the case management 

conference on March 31, 2006.

Although Mr. Lennie attempted to obtain defendant 

counsel's stipulation to continue the case management 

conference, defendant's counsel has refused to agree to postpone 

it.

Even if plaintiff had been ready to file a motion to 

continue the case management conference on the day it was 

noticed by the Court, there would not have been enough time 

between that date and March 31 for it to be heard as a normally 

noticed motion. In addition, this Court's clerk suggested to 

Mr. Lennie that, rather than file an ex parte application for an 

order shortening time for the hearing of a motion to continue 

the case management conference, plaintiff should simply file an 

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ex parte application for an Order Continuing the Case Management 

Conference. This is that ex parte application.

This ex parte application is based on this ex parte

application and the declaration of Michael R. Lennie, which is 

attached hereto.

Good cause exists for continuing the case management 

conference as demonstrated herein.

Dated: March 24, 2006 _____________________________________

Michael R. Lennie 

Law Offices of Michael R. Lennie, APC

Attorney for Plaintiff 

Frederic H. Martini, Inc.

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DECLARATION OF MICHAEL R. LENNIE IN

SUPPORT OF EX PARTE APPLICATION

FOR ORDER CONTINUING CASE MANAGAEMENT CONFERENCE

I, Michael R. Lennie, declare:

1. I am an attorney-at-law duly admitted to practice 

before this Court and am the attorney of record in the abovecaptioned action for plaintiff Frederic H. Martini, Inc. I 

submit this declaration in support of my client’s ex parte

application for an order continuing from March 31 to April 21, 

the currently scheduled case management conference.

2. The March 31 date for the case management 

conference was set by the Court on March 16, 2006. Prior to 

that date I had already planned and paid for a trip to New York 

City and Virginia from March 28 through April 5, 2006. In 

addition, Gary Alabaster, a San Francisco attorney who has been 

assisting me in the prosecution of this action, had before March 

16 already planned and paid for a trip to San Diego from March 

31 through April 2, so he is unavailable to attend the case 

management conference on March 31, 2006.

3. On March 19, 2006, I spoke with Kent Roger, the 

lead counsel for defendants in this action. I asked Mr. Roger 

to stipulate to the postponement of the case management 

conference, and I offered a number of different dates which 

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would be acceptable to the Court, my client and me. Mr. Roger 

refused to agree to postpone the case management conference.

4. Because the date of case management conference 

was set only on March 16, I could not have brought a motion to 

continue it pursuant to the amount of notice that is normally 

required, because the case management conference would have 

occurred prior to the earliest date on which the motion for a 

continuance of it could be heard absent the grant of an order 

shortening time. I originally thought that I would file an ex

parte application for an order shortening time for the hearing 

of my motion to continue the case management conference. 

However, when I spoke by telephone on March 23, 2006, with this 

Court's Courtroom Deputy, Tracy Sutton, she suggested that I 

simply file an ex parte application to continue the case 

management conference.

5. On March 24, 2006 at 3:30 p.m., I called on the 

telephone Kent Roger’s office, the lead attorney for defendants. 

A receptionist informed me he was on the phone and put me over 

to his voice mail. I left a message that I needed to talk to 

him before he left for home, and that I needed to give him 

notice of a matter in this case. Not having heard from him, I 

again called his office, was put over to his voice mail by a 

receptionist and left a more detailed message as follows: that I 

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was electronically filing an ex parte motion for continuance of 

the case management conference currently scheduled for March 31, 

2006, to April 21, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.; that he was required to 

immediately file objections electronically, if any; and that 

there would be no appearances.

6. At 4:48 p.m. this date I called Patti Kim, Esq., 

who is assisting Mr. Roger in this matter and left an identical 

message as that left with Kent Roger with Ms. Kim’s voice mail

7. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws 

of the State of California that the foregoing is true and 

correct.

Dated: March 24, 2006 ____________________________

(1271.01:37) Michael R. Lennie

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MICHAEL R. LENNIE, CBN 48191

LAW OFFICES of MICHAEL R. LENNIE APC

2255 Avenida De La Playa, No. 7b2

La Jolla, CA 92037

Tel: 858.456.0138

Fax: 858.456.1893

Attorney for Plaintiff

FREDERIC H. MARTINI, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO

FREDERIC H. MARTINI, INC., a 

Hawaii Corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

PEARSON EDUCATION, INC., a 

Delaware Corporation, dba 

Benjamin Cummings,

Defendant

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Case No.: No. CV 04-04187 SI

[PROPOSED] ORDER CONTINUING 

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

The Court having considered the ex parte application 

of Plaintiff Frederic H. Martini, Inc., for an Order Continuing 

the Case Management Conference currently scheduled for March 31, 

2006, at 2:00 p.m., to April 21, 2006 at 2:00 p.m., and having 

considered defendants' objections to the requested continuance, 

and good cause appearing therefor,

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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, the Case Management 

Conference currently scheduled for March 31, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. 

be, and the same is, hereby continued to April 21, 2006 at 2:00 

p.m..

Dated:_____________ ____________________________

Susan Illston

(1271.01:37) United States District Judge

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