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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:501 Copyright Infringement

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EX PARTE APPLICATION TO CONTINUE CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

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Matthew Franklin Jaksa (CA State Bar No. 248072) 

HOLME ROBERTS & OWEN LLP

560 Mission Street, 25th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2994 

Telephone: (415) 268-2000 

Facsimile: (415) 268-1999 

Email: matt.jaksa@hro.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 

SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT; 

ARISTA RECORDS LLC; INTERSCOPE 

RECORDS; BMG MUSIC; UMG RECORDINGS, 

INC.; and WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, a 

Delaware general partnership; ARISTA 

RECORDS LLC, a Delaware limited liability 

company; INTERSCOPE RECORDS, a 

California general partnership; BMG MUSIC, a 

New York general partnership; UMG 

RECORDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation; 

and WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC., a 

Delaware corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

BRITTANY RAQUEL GRAY, 

Defendant. 

CASE NO. C 07-04854 WDB 

The Honorable Wayne D. Brazil 

EX PARTE APPLICATION TO CONTINUE 

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

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Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court continue the case management conference 

currently set for April 3, 2008, at 4:00 p.m. to July 10, 2008. As further explained below, Defendant 

Brittany Raquel Gray (“Defendant”) has not appeared in this action. Accordingly, Plaintiffs were 

prepared to seek entry of default and a default judgment; however, Defendant has now contacted 

Plaintiffs and the parties have reached a provisional settlement. Therefore, a case management 

conference is unnecessary at this time. 

1. Plaintiffs initially filed the Complaint in this matter against a John Doe defendant on 

September 20, 2007. In order to discover the Doe defendant’s true identity, Plaintiffs also filed their 

Ex Parte Application for Leave to Take Immediate Discovery seeking the Court’s permission to 

serve a Rule 45 subpoena on Defendant’s Internet Service Provider (“ISP”). On September 28, 

2007, the Court issued an Order for Leave to Take Immediate Discovery. Plaintiffs then served a 

subpoena on the ISP, which thereafter identified the Defendant, Brittany Raquel Gray. 

2. While this case was in the Doe stage, the Court issued a December 20, 2007 Order 

granting Plaintiffs’ previous request to continue the case management conference from January 3, 

2008 to the currently scheduled date. 

3. Once the ISP identified Ms. Gray, the parties engaged in settlement discussions. 

However, a provisional settlement failed and was never finalized. Accordingly, on February 4, 

2008, Plaintiffs filed the First Amended Complaint naming Ms. Gray individually as Defendant. 

Defendant was served with process on February 24, 2008 by personal service. 

4. Defendant has not answered or otherwise responded to the Complaint. Accordingly, 

Plaintiffs were poised to request entry of default and seek a default judgment. However, Defendant 

contacted Plaintiffs on March 24, 2008 (the date of this filing), and the parties have again reached a 

provisional settlement. Once the settlement is final, Plaintiffs will promptly file appropriate 

dispositional documents with the Court. 

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5. Given the circumstances of this case, Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court 

continue the case management conference from April 3, 2008, at 4:00 p.m. to July 10, 2008, or such 

other date as conveniences the Court. 

Dated: March 24, 2008 HOLME ROBERTS & OWEN LLP 

By: _________/s/ Matthew Franklin Jaksa___

MATTHEW FRANKLIN JAKSA 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

 Good cause having been shown: 

IT IS ORDERED that the case management conference currently set for April 3, 2008, at 

4:00 p.m., is hereby continued to July 10, 2008. 

Dated: ___________________ By: _____________________________ 

 Honorable Wayne D. Brazil 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

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Proof of Service 

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PROOF OF SERVICE 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 

I am employed in the office of Holme Roberts & Owen in San Francisco, California. I am 

over the age of eighteen years and not a party to the within action. My business address is 560 

Mission Street, 25th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105. 

On March 24, 2008, I served the foregoing documents described as: 

EX PARTE APPLICATION TO CONTINUE CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

on the interested party in this action by placing a true and correct copy thereof enclosed in a sealed 

envelope addressed as follows: 

Brittany Raquel Gray 

75 Poncetta Drive 215 

Daly City, CA 94015 

 BY MAIL: I am “readily familiar” with the firm’s practice of collection and 

processing correspondence for mailing. Under that practice it would be deposited with U.S. postal 

service on that same day with postage thereon fully prepaid at San Francisco, California in the 

ordinary course of business. I am aware that on motion of the party served, service is presumed 

invalid if postal cancellation date or postage meter date is more than one day after date of deposit for 

mailing in affidavit. 

 (FEDERAL) I declare that I am employed in the office of a member of the bar of this 

court at whose direction the service was made. 

Executed on March 24, 2008 at San Francisco, California. 

Della Grant 

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