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Nature of Suit Code: 340
Nature of Suit: Marine Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 46:30505-30510 Exoneration, Limitation of Liability

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ORDER RESTRAINING ALL SUITS, DIRECTING MONITION TO ISSUE, AND PUBLICATION 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE MATTER OF THE 

COMPLAINT OF CANTOR 

ENTERPRISES, INC. dba CALIFORNIA 

WATERSPORTS; and JOSHUA 

CANTOR, individually

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Case No.: 3:17-cv-01281-CAB-BLM

IN ADMIRALTY

ORDER RESTRAINING ALL SUITS, 

DIRECTING MONITION TO ISSUE 

AND PUBLICATION OF NOTICE

A Complaint has been filed in the above-captioned court by Plaintiffs-inLimitation, CANTOR ENTERPRISES INC. doing business as CALIFORNIA 

WATERSPORTS (hereinafter, referred to as "California Watersports") and JOSHUA 

CANTOR (jointly hereinafter referred to as "Plaintiffs-in-Limitation"), in their 

respective capacities as the owner of any and all Stand Up Paddle Boards (hereinafter 

"SUPs") rented out by California Watersports in and around April 2015, and as an 

individual entitled to assert exoneration from, or limitation of, liability, pursuant to 

the Limitation of Liability Act, 46 U.S.C. § 30501 et seq., and Rule F of the 

Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims, with respect to any 

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and all injuries, losses, damages, or claims arising out of, resulting from, or in any 

manner connected with, the alleged "Incident" on or about April 25, 2015, 

purportedly involving a Stand Up Paddle Board ("SUP") occurring on the navigable 

waters of Agua Hedionda Lagoon, located in or around Carlsbad, California, as set 

forth and alleged in the Complaint (hereinafter, the "Complaint") filed herein as 

Document 1.

Plaintiffs-in-Limitation will now deposit with this Court, for the benefit of the 

claimants, the sum equivalent to the Maximum Value of any SUP that may have been 

rented out by California Watersports in and around the time period of April 2015, in 

the amount of Five Hundred Eighty Dollars ($580.00), and will deposit the sum of 

Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) as security for court costs under Local Civil Rule 

F.1.

It appears that claims have been made, or will be made against Plaintiffs-inLimitation or the SUP alleged to have been involved in the incident for losses or 

damages arising out of, or in some manner connected with the matters set forth in the 

Complaint.

The Court, on the motion of Plaintiffs-in-Limitation, now issues the following 

Orders:

1. Pursuant to Rule F(3) of the Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty 

and Maritime Claims, except as filed in this proceeding, the commencement or 

prosecution of any and all suits, actions or legal proceedings of any nature and 

description, presently ongoing or to be filed in the future, against Plaintiffs-inLimitation or against the SUP as a result of the alleged April 25, 2015 incident 

described in the Complaint is enjoined and said proceedings are to be stayed and 

restrained until the hearing and determination of this proceeding;

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2. Pursuant to Rule F(4) of the Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty 

and Maritime Claims, a monition shall issue out of and under seal of this Court. All 

persons and entities asserting any claim against Plaintiffs-in-Limitation or the alleged 

SUP involved in the alleged April 25, 2015 incident at issue for any loss, damage or 

injury arising out of, resulting from, or in any manner connected with the matters set 

forth in the Complaint are admonished to appear and file their respective claims and 

answer the allegations of the Complaint with the Clerk of this Court at the United 

States Courthouse located at 333 West Broadway, San Diego, California 92101 in 

writing, and to serve a copy thereof on the attorneys for Plaintiffs-in-Limitation, on or 

before October 31, 2017, or be deemed in contumacy and default, and that when all 

proceedings have been completed, if it shall appear that the Plaintiffs-in-Limitation 

are not liable for any such loss or damage, it may be finally so decreed by this Court;

3. A notice which is substantially in the same form as the "Notice of 

Complaint for Exoneration From, or Limitation of, Liability" (hereinafter "Notice of 

Complaint") that is lodged with this Court, shall be published once a week for four 

(4) successive weeks prior to October 31, 2017, by Plaintiffs-in-Limitation, in The 

San Diego Union-Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation printed and published 

in the County of San Diego, California;

4. Plaintiffs-in-Limitation, pursuant to Rule F(4) of the Supplemental Rules 

for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims, shall no later than the date of the second 

publication mail a copy of the "Notice of Complaint" to every person and entity 

known to have asserted a claim against Plaintiffs-in-Limitation or the SUP alleged to 

be involved in the April 25, 2015 incident, arising out of, resulting from, or in any 

manner connected with the Complaint in this action and in those cases where the 

person or entity making the claim is known to have an attorney, the "Notice of 

Complaint" shall be mailed to such attorney;

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5. The publication and mailing of the "Notice of Complaint" described 

herein shall constitute due notice to all persons asserting claims arising out of or in 

any way relating to that which the Complaint herein seeks exoneration from, or 

limitation of, liability;

6. Service of this Order as a restraining order may be accomplished by 

mailing a copy of this executed Order to the persons to be restrained, or their 

attorneys acting on their behalf.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 21, 2017

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