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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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STIP. AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO VACATE CMC

AND EXTEND TIME TO RESPOND TO COMPLAINT

3:15-CV-3425-HSG

COOLEY LLP

JOHN C. DWYER (136533) (dwyerjc@cooley.com)

JESSICA VALENZUELA SANTAMARIA (220934) (jsantamaria@cooley.com)

AMANDA A. MAIN (260814) (amain@cooley.com)

BRETT H. DE JARNETTE (292919) (bdejarnette@cooley.com)

3175 Hanover Street

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1130

Telephone: (650) 843-5000

Facsimile: (650) 849-7400

Attorneys for Defendants

XOMA CORPORATION, JOHN W. VARIAN, 

and PAUL D. RUBIN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSEPH F. MARKETTE, on Behalf of 

Himself and All Others Similarly Situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

XOMA CORPORATION, JOHN W. 

VARIAN, and PAUL D. RUBIN,

Defendants.

Case No. 3:15-CV-3425-HSG

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO VACATE 

INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE AND RESET ALL RELATED 

DEADLINES AND EXTEND DEFENDANTS’

TIME TO ANSWER OR OTHERWISE 

RESPOND TO THE COMPLAINT

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Plaintiff Joseph Markette, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, 

(“Plaintiff”), by and through his undersigned counsel, and Defendants XOMA Corporation, John 

Varian, and Paul Rubin (“Defendants”), by and through their undersigned counsel, hereby 

stipulate and agree as follows:

WHEREAS Plaintiff’s Class Action Complaint for Violations of the Federal Securities 

Laws (the “Complaint”) was filed in the action styled Markette v. XOMA Corporation, et al., 

No. 3:15-CV-3425-HSG on July 24, 2015 (Dkt. No. 1) (the “Complaint”);

WHEREAS, Plaintiff sent waivers of service of summons to Defendants on August 4, 

2015 and Cooley LLP accepted service on their behalf;

WHEREAS, under Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Defendants are 

required to answer or otherwise respond to Plaintiff’s Complaint on or before September 28, 

2015;

WHEREAS, under section 78u-4(a)(3) of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 

1995 (“PSLRA”) the deadline to file a motion to appoint lead plaintiff and to appoint lead counsel 

is September 22, 2015;

WHEREAS, on July 27, 2015, this Court issued an Order, scheduling an Initial Case 

Management Conference for October 27, 2015 along with related Alternative Dispute Resolution 

(“ADR”) deadlines.

WHEREAS, the parties agree that, in light of the deadline to file a motion to appoint lead 

plaintiff and lead counsel, and in the interests of judicial economy and preservation of the Court’s 

and the parties’ resources, Defendants need not respond to the pending Complaint;

WHEREAS, under Civil Local Rule 6-1(a), the parties may stipulate in writing, without a 

Court order, to extend the time within which to answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint 

provided that the change will not alter the date of any event or any deadline already fixed by 

Court order;

WHEREAS, the Court has not issued any order setting the time within which Defendants 

must answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint;

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NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereby STIPULATE and AGREE as follows, through 

their undersigned counsel:

1. Defendants shall not be required to, and shall not waive any rights, arguments, or 

defenses by not answering, moving against, or otherwise responding to the pending Complaint in 

the action styled Markette v. XOMA Corporation, et al., No. 3:15-CV-3425-HSG;

2. Upon appointment of a lead plaintiff and lead counsel, the parties will meet and 

confer to set a schedule for the filing by such lead plaintiff of a consolidated complaint and 

Defendants’ response.

3. The Initial Case Management Conference currently scheduled for October 27, 

2015, along with any associated deadlines under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local 

Rules (including ADR deadlines), shall be vacated and reset after appointment of lead plaintiff 

and lead counsel.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Respectfully Submitted,

Dated: August 26, 2015 COOLEY LLP

 /s/ Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria

Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria (136533)

Attorneys for Defendants XOMA CORPORATION, 

JOHN W. VARIAN, and PAUL D. RUBIN

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Dated: August 26, 2015 PUNZALAN LAW, P.C.

 /s/ Mark Punzalan

Mark Punzalan (247599)

Attorneys for Plaintiff JOSEPH F. MARKETTE

LEVI & KORSINSKY, LLP

Nicholas I. Porritt (to be admitted pro hac vice)

Adam M. Apton (to be admitted pro hac vice)

1101 30th Street, N.W., Suite 115

Washington, D.C. 20007

Tel: (202) 524-4290

Fax: (202) 363-2121

LEVI & KORSINSKY, LLP

Julia J. Sun (to be admitted pro hac vice)

30 Broad Street, 24th Floor

New York, New York 10004

Tel: (212) 363-7500

Fax: (212) 363-7171

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ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: August 27, 2015

Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.

United States District Court Judge

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ATTESTATION OF CONCURRENCE IN FILING

Pursuant to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Civil 

L. R. 5-1(i), I, Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria, hereby attest that the concurrence to the filing of 

the foregoing document has been obtained from Mark Punzalan, who has provided the conformed 

signature above.

Dated: August 26, 2015 COOLEY LLP

 /s/ Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria

Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria (220934)

Attorneys for Defendants XOMA CORPORATION, 

JOHN W. VARIAN, and PAUL D. RUBIN

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria, one of the attorneys for Defendants XOMA 

Corporation, John W. Varian, and Paul D. Rubin hereby certify that on August 27, 2015, I caused 

a copy of the attached Stipulation Re Defendants XOMA Corporation, John W. Varian, and Paul 

D. Rubin’s Response to the Pending Complaint to be submitted electronically to the Court’s 

Electronic Case Filing System which generates a Notice of Electronic Filing that constitutes 

service to all Filing Users under Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(b)(2)(D).

/s/ Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria

Jessica Valenzuela Santamaria

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