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

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STIPULATION TO EXTEND DATES TO FILE AND FOR HEARING ON MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ROBERT LAUGHLIN, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

TODD WALKER, and DOES 1 to 30, 

 Defendants. 

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CASE NO. 2:06-CV-01932 - KJM 

STIPULATION TO EXTEND 

DATES TO FILE AND FOR 

HEARING ON MOTION FOR 

SUMMARY JUDGMENT; ORDER 

The parties hereto, through their undersigned counsel of record, hereby stipulate, 

under Local Rule 6.2, to have the deadline for defendant, Todd Walker, to file his motion for 

summary judgment be extended thirty (30) days, from November 7, 2007, to December 7, 

2007, and for the date of the hearing thereon to similarly be extended thirty days, or more, as 

is convenient for the court’s calendar in January 2008. 

There are several reasons for the extension, all of which combined form the basis of 

“good cause” for the court to adopt the stipulation as the court’s order. First, defendant’s 

counsel, Joanna R. Mendoza, is scheduled to begin a week-long civil trial in Sacramento 

County Superior Court on October 29, 2007 [Gina Holmes v. Petrovich Development 

Company, et al., Case No. 05AS04356, Dept. 39, Hon. Talmadge Jones]. This is a firm date 

JOANNA R. MENDOZA, State Bar No. 148320

MALOVOS & MENDOZA, LLP 

3620 American River Drive, Suite 215 

Sacramento, CA 95864 

(916) 974-8600 

(916) 974-8608 FAX 

jrm@malovoslaw.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

TODD WALKER 

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set under the new civil case management program, and counsel expects to be using this week 

in trial preparation for next week’s trial. Thus, since the order from the court setting the 

deadline for filing the motion for summary judgment as November 7th was issued near the 

close of business on the 18th of October (last Thursday), counsel for Walker will not be able to 

comply with that deadline without causing severe prejudice to her client. Both parties, in 

fact, would like to see the issue disposed before significant efforts are undertaken to prepare 

for trial in this matter. 

Second, plaintiff’s counsel, Douglas B. Jacobs, is also in the process of spending 

significant time preparing for a civil trial in Butte County which is scheduled to begin on 

November 26, 2007. As a result, the period within which an opposition to the motion for 

summary judgment in this matter would need to be prepared and filed conflicts with the 

period in which Mr. Jacobs will be finishing his trial preparations and beginning trial on the 

other matter. If the deadlines and hearing date are not moved in this case, both of his clients 

could suffer severe prejudice as a result. 

Finally, the parties are continuing in a good faith effort to reach an informal resolution 

of this case following their recent participation in the Court’s VDRP program. If the parties 

are required to incur significant attorneys’ fees for the motion for summary judgment or for 

trial on this matter in the near future, it could have a significantly negative impact upon the 

progress of settlement discussions. Thus, to improve the possibility of an informal resolution 

to this matter, counsel for both parties urge the court to provide additional time before the 

motion must be filed. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the 

foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge. 

DATED: October 22, 2007 MALOVOS & MENDOZA, LLP 

 BY: _/s/ Joanna R. Mendoza____

 JOANNA R. MENDOZA 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 TODD WALKER 

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DATED: October 22, 2007 JACOBS, ANDERSON, POTTER & CHAPLIN 

 By: /s/ Douglas Bram Jacobs 

 DOUGLAS BRAM JACOBS 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 ROBERT LAUGHLIN 

ORDER

PURSUANT TO THE STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES, IT IS ORDERED that the 

defendant, Todd Walker, shall have additional time to file his motion for summary judgment 

up through December 26, 2007, and that the hearing on the motion for summary judgment, 

currently set for December 5, 2007, shall be continued to 10:00 a.m. on January 23, 2008. 

DATED: October 26, 2007. 

 

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