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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:1 Antitrust Litigation

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CASE NO. 3:15-cv-00489-VC

RAOUL D. KENNEDY (Bar No. 40892)

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP

525 University Avenue, Suite 1400

Palo Alto, California 94301

Telephone: (650) 470-4500

Facsimile: (650) 470-4570

Email: raoul.kennedy@skadden.com

JEFFREY A. MISHKIN (pro hac vice pending)

ANTHONY J. DREYER (pro hac vice pending)

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP

Four Times Square 

New York, NY 10036

Telephone: (212) 735-3000

Facsimile: (917) 777-2000

Email: jeffrey.mishkin@skadden.com

Email: anthony.dreyer@skadden.com

Attorneys for Defendant

PGA TOUR, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

WILLIAM MICHAEL HICKS and

KENNETH HARMS, as Class Representative 

Plaintiffs, et al.

Plaintiffs,

v.

PGA TOUR, INC.

Defendants.

CASE NO. 3:15-cv-00489-VC

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CASE NO. 3:15-cv-00489-VC

Plaintiffs William Michael Hicks and Kenneth Harms, as Class Representative Plaintiffs, et 

al. (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”) and Defendant PGA TOUR, INC. (the “TOUR”), through their 

respective counsel, hereby stipulate and agree as follows:

WHEREAS Plaintiffs filed the Complaint in this action on February 3, 2015;

WHEREAS service of the Complaint, Summons, and supporting documents was effected 

on or about February 11, 2015;

WHEREAS, the TOUR has informed Plaintiffs that it intends to move to transfer venue in 

this action to the Middle District of Florida;

WHEREAS, the parties have agreed that the TOUR’s time to answer, move, or otherwise 

plead in response to the Complaint shall be extended through resolution of the TOUR’s 

forthcoming motion to transfer venue;

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs reserve the right to seek (and the TOUR reserves the right to oppose) 

discovery in connection with the TOUR’s motion to transfer venue, which discovery, if permitted,

would affect any briefing schedule on such motion;

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED that, pursuant to Civil Local Rule 6-1: 

1. On or before March 6, 2015, the TOUR will move to transfer venue in this action to

the Middle District of Florida; 

2. Promptly after the filing of the TOUR’s motion to transfer venue, the parties (a) will 

meet-and-confer regarding whether any venue-related discovery is necessary, and to set a proposed 

briefing schedule for the motion to transfer, and (b) shall submit a proposed schedule to the Court; 

and

3. The TOUR will answer, move, or otherwise plead in response to the Complaint 

within 30 days of the entry of an order on its motion to transfer venue;

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED that this Stipulation does not constitute a 

waiver of any other defense including, but not limited to, the defenses of lack of personal or subject 

matter jurisdiction or improper venue.

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CASE NO. 3:15-cv-00489-VC

DATED: February 20, 2015

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM, LLP

By: /s/ Raoul D. Kennedy

RAOUL D. KENNEDY

JEFFREY A. MISHKIN (pro hac vice pending)

ANTHONY J. DREYER (pro hac vice pending)

Attorneys for Defendant

PGA TOUR, INC.

DATED: February 20, 2015

THE LANIER LAW FIRM, P.C.

By: /s/ Lee Cirsch

LEE CIRSCH

Attorneys for Plaintiffs William Michael Hicks and 

Kenneth Harms, as Class Representative Plaintiffs, et al.

ECF ATTESTATION

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), the filer of this document attests that concurrence in 

the filing of this document has been obtained from each of the other signatories above.

/s/ Raoul D. Kennedy

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CASE NO. 3:15-cv-00489-VC

[PROPOSED] ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

The Honorable Vince Chhabria

United States District Court Judge

Date: February 23, 2015

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