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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LEADING MANUFACTURING 

SOLUTIONS, LP,

Plaintiff,

v.

HITCO, LTD., et al.,

Defendant.

Case No.: 15cv1852-LAB (BGS)

ORDER SETTING BRIEFING 

SCHEDULE ON DEFENDANTS’ 

RULE 52 MOTION; 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART EX 

PARTE MOTION TO STAY 

EXECUTION OF JUDGMENT; 

AND

AMENDED ORDER REQUIRING 

DEFENDANTS TO POST BOND

This amended order takes the place of the order the Court issued on 

October 5, 2018. The Clerk is directed to remove that order (Docket no. 187) from 

the docket and replace it with this order. 

The Court finds Defendants’ motion to make additional findings and amend 

the judgment (Docket no. 185) suitable for decision without argument. By October 

22, 2018, Plaintiff may file an opposition. No reply brief is to be filed without leave. 

The hearing on this motion is VACATED and the Court will decide the matter on 

the papers.

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Defendants’ ex parte motion is GRANTED IN PART. The judgment is stayed 

pending the Court’s resolution of Defendants’ motion to make additional findings. 

But the injunction requiring Theodore Smith to retain the patents (Docket no. 177 

at 18:7–9) is not stayed.

Defendants have offered to post a bond for the entire monetary judgment, 

and Plaintiff has tentatively agreed that this would be sufficient as long as the bond 

also covers costs and interest. The parties should promptly meet and confer to 

confirm the amount of the bond and the terms if possible. If they reach an 

agreement, Defendants should post a bond in the agreed amount promptly, and in 

any event by October 22.

If the parties do not agree on terms, Defendants must post a bond in the full 

amount of the judgment and the parties shall file letter briefs proposing terms for 

the stay, also by October 22. If Defendants do not fulfill their part of this, the Court 

will lift the stay.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 17, 2018

Hon. Larry Alan Burns

United States District Judge

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