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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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Order Suspending Deadline To Respond To Second Amended Complaint And Directing

Plaintiffs To File Motion For Leave To Amend

Master Case No. 2:14-cv-2571-MCE-KJN

LOWENSTEIN SANDLER LLP

MICHAEL J. MCGAUGHEY (198617)

390 Lytton Avenue

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Telephone: 213-426-2170

Fax: 973-597-6233

mmcgaughey@lowenstein.com

Counsel for Lead Plaintiffs Special Situations 

Fund III QP, L.P. and Special Situations 

Cayman Fund, L.P. and additional named

Plaintiff David M. Fineman

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SPECIAL SITUATIONS FUND III QP, L.P.,

SPECIAL SITUATIONS CAYMAN FUND, L.P. 

and DAVID M. FINEMAN, Individually and On 

Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

MARRONE BIO INNOVATIONS, INC., 

PAMELA G. MARRONE, JAMES B. BOYD, 

DONALD J. GLIDEWELL, HECTOR ABSI, 

ELIN MILLER, RANJEET BHATIA, PAMELA 

CONTAG, TIM FOGARTY, LAWRENCE 

HOUGH, JOSEPH HUDSON, LES LYMAN, 

RICHARD ROMINGER, SHAUGN STANLEY, 

SEAN SCHICKENDANZ, and ERNST & 

YOUNG LLP,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:14-cv-02571-MCE-KJN

CONSOLIDATED CLASS ACTION

Chief Judge Morrison C. England, Jr.

ORDER SUSPENDING 

DEADLINE TO RESPOND TO 

CONSOLIDATED COMPLAINT 

AND DIRECTING PLAINTIFFS 

TO FILE MOTION FOR LEAVE 

TO AMEND

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Order Suspending Deadline To Respond

To Second Amended Complaint And Directing

Plaintiffs To File Motion For Leave To Amend

Master Case No. 2:14-cv-2571-MCE-KJN

The Court has received the March 3, 2016 letter from Lowenstein Sandler LLP (ECF No. 

52), counsel to Lead Plaintiffs Special Situations Fund III QP, L.P and Special Situations 

Cayman Fund, L.P. (“Lead Plaintiffs”), as well as additional named Plaintiff David M. Fineman

(collectively with Lead Plaintiffs, “Plaintiffs”), and Lead Counsel for the class in this 

consolidated securities fraud class action. Plaintiffs request that the deadline for Defendant 

Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y”) to respond to the Second Consolidated Amended Complaint (ECF 

No. 44) be suspended pending Plaintiffs’ anticipated motion for leave to amend pursuant to 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a)(2), which Plaintiffs indicate that they intend to file no 

later than March 15, 2016.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Plaintiffs shall file their anticipated motion for 

leave to amend no later than March 15, 2016; and it is further

ORDERED that E&Y’s current deadline to respond to the Second Consolidated 

Amended Complaint be and hereby is suspended; and it is further

ORDERED that E&Y shall file and serve its opposition to Plaintiffs’ motion for leave to 

amend, if any, no later than twenty-one (21) days after Plaintiffs file and serve the motion; and it 

is further

ORDERED that if E&Y opposes Plaintiffs’ motion for leave to amend, Plaintiffs shall 

file and serve their reply brief within fourteen (14) days after E&Y files and serves its 

opposition.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 10, 2016

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