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Nature of Suit Code: 196
Nature of Suit: Franchise
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-(Citizenship)

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MARKET STREET, 26TH FLOOR

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JOEL D. SIEGEL (SBN 171919) 

SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP 

601 South Figueroa Street, Suite 1500 

Los Angeles, California 90017-5704 

Telephone: (213) 623-9300 

Facsimile: (213) 623-9924 

jsiegel@sonnenschein.com 

KAREN C. MARCHIANO (SBN 233493) 

SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP 

525 Market Street, 26th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2708 

Telephone: (415) 882-5000 

Facsimile: (415) 882-0300 

kmarchiano@sonnenschein.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

DESIGNED COOKIES, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

DEBORAH NORK, LEE ROBERTS and 

BAKER’S BOUQUET, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

DESIGNED COOKIES, INC., 

 Defendants. 

No. CV 09-5336 CRB 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER CONTINUING INITIAL CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE AND 

ADR DEADLINES 

Current Initial Case Management 

Conference Date: March 12, 2010 

Time: 8:30 a.m. 

Courtroom No. 8 

Proposed New Initial Case Management 

Conference Date: April 23, 2010 

Time: 8:30 a.m. 

Courtroom No. 8 

Honorable Charles R. Breyer 

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Pursuant to Civil Local Rules 6-1(b) and 6-2 of the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California, Plaintiffs Deborah Nork, Lee Roberts, and Baker’s Bouquet 

(“Plaintiffs”) and Defendant Designed Cookies, Inc. (“DCI”), by and through their respective 

counsel, hereby stipulate and agree to the following: 

On November 10, 2009, this Court issued an Order Setting Initial Case Management 

Conference And ADR Deadlines [Docket No. 3], which set deadlines to “meet and confer re: 

initial disclosures, early settlement, ADR process selection, and discovery plan”; “file ADR 

Certification signed by Parties and Counsel”; “file either Stipulation to ADR Process or Notice 

of Need for ADR Phone Conference”; and “to file Rule 26(f) Report, complete initial 

disclosures or state objection in Rule 26(f) Report and file Case Management Statement”. By 

Clerk’s Notice dated December 16, 2009 [Docket No. 18], this Court scheduled the Initial Case 

Management Conference for March 12, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. 

The parties are currently engaged in settlement discussions. The parties agree that in the 

interests of judicial economy, to preserve the parties’ resources, and to facilitate settlement 

discussions, the deadlines from the Order Setting Initial Case Management Conference And 

ADR Deadlines [Docket No. 3] and the Clerk’s Notice dated December 16, 2009 [Docket No. 

18] should be continued approximately 45 days so that the deadlines in the following chart 

apply. This is the first stipulation to modify the schedule set by the Order Setting Initial Case 

Management Conference And ADR Deadlines [Docket No. 3] or the Clerk’s Notice dated 

December 16, 2009 [Docket No. 18]. 

Deadline

Last day to 

• meet and confer re: initial disclosures, 

early settlement, ADR process selection, 

and discovery plan; 

• file ADR Certification signed by Parties 

and Counsel; 

• file either Stipulation to ADR Process or 

April 1, 2010 

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Notice of Need for ADR Phone 

Conference 

Last day to file Rule 26(f) Report, complete 

initial disclosures or state objection in Rule 

26(f) Report and file Case Management 

Statement 

April 15, 2010 

Initial Case Management Conference April 23, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. in Courtroom 8 

Respectfully submitted, 

Dated: February 11, 2010 SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP 

KAREN C. MARCHIANO, ESQ. 

By:____________/S/ Karen C. Marchiano _______ 

Karen C. Marchiano 

Attorneys for Defendants 

DESIGNED COOKIES, INC. 

Dated: February 11, 2010 ZARCO EINHORN SALKOWSKI & BRITO, P.A. 

ROBERT ZARCO, ESQ. 

By:____________/S/ Robert Zarco__________________ 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

DEBORAH NORK, LEE ROBERTS AND BAKER’S 

BOUQUET 

ATTESTATION CLAUSE

I attest under penalty of perjury that the concurrence in the filing of this document has been 

obtained from its signatories. 

By:____________/S/ Karen C. Marchiano ___ 

 KAREN C. MARCHIANO 

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DECLARATION OF KAREN C. MARCHIANO

I, Karen C. Marchiano, declare as follows: 

 1. I am an attorney at law duly admitted to practice before this Court and am an 

associate of the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, counsel of record for 

Defendant Designed Cookies, Inc. (“DCI”). I make this declaration in support of the attached 

Stipulation and [Proposed] Order Continuing Initial Case Management Conference And ADR 

Deadlines. I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein and could competently 

testify to them if called upon to do so. 

 2. On November 10, 2009, this Court issued an Order Setting Initial Case 

Management Conference And ADR Deadlines [Docket No. 3]. The November 10, 2009 order 

set a deadline of February 15, 2010 to “meet and confer re: initial disclosures, early settlement, 

ADR process selection, and discovery plan”; “file ADR Certification signed by Parties and 

Counsel”; and “file either Stipulation to ADR Process or Notice of Need for ADR Phone 

Conference.” The November 10, 2009 order set a deadline of March 1, 2010 “to file Rule 26(f) 

Report, complete initial disclosures or state objection in Rule 26(f) Report and file Case 

Management Statement”. 

 3. By Clerk’s Notice dated December 16, 2009 [Docket No. 18], this Court scheduled 

the Initial Case Management Conference for March 12, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. 

 4. The parties are currently engaged in settlement discussions. The parties agree that 

in the interests of judicial economy, to preserve the parties’ resources, and to facilitate settlement 

discussions, the current deadlines should be continued approximately 45 days so that the 

following deadlines apply: 

Deadline

Last day to 

• meet and confer re: initial disclosures, 

early settlement, ADR process selection, 

and discovery plan 

• file ADR Certification signed by Parties 

April 1, 2010 

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• file either Stipulation to ADR Process or 

Notice of Need for ADR Phone 

Conference 

Last day to file Rule 26(f) Report, complete 

initial disclosures or state objection in Rule 

26(f) Report and file Case Management 

Statement 

April 15, 2010 

Initial Case Management Conference April 23, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. in Courtroom 8 

 5. This is the first stipulation to modify the schedule set by the Order Setting Initial 

Case Management Conference And ADR Deadlines [Docket No. 3] or the Clerk’s Notice dated 

December 16, 2009 [Docket No. 18]. This Court previously extended the hearing date on DCI’s 

Motion To Compel Arbitration, and the deadline for DCI to respond to the complaint. 

 I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 11th 

day of February, 2010 in San Francisco, California. 

By:______________/S/ Karen C. Marchiano_________________ 

 Karen C. Marchiano 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation and Local Rule 6-1(b) and 6-2 and good cause 

appearing, it is hereby ordered that the deadlines set forth in the Order Setting Initial Case 

Management Conference And ADR Deadlines [Docket No. 3] and the December 16, 2009 

Clerk’s Notice [Docket No. 18] shall be continued so that the following deadlines apply: 

Deadline

Last day to 

• meet and confer re: initial disclosures, 

early settlement, ADR process selection, 

and discovery plan 

• file ADR Certification signed by Parties 

and Counsel 

• file either Stipulation to ADR Process or 

Notice of Need for ADR Phone 

Conference 

April 1, 2010 

Last day to file Rule 26(f) Report, complete 

initial disclosures or state objection in Rule 

26(f) Report and file Case Management 

Statement 

April 15, 2010 

Initial Case Management Conference April 23, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. in Courtroom 8 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ______________ _______________________________________________ 

HONORABLE CHARLES R. BREYER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

Feb. 16, 2010

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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