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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1442 Petition for Removal

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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 Although that order nominally was directed at both Williams and Pacific Northwest

Software (“PNS”), it was premised on the likelihood that further responsive information could be

recovered from the computers of PNS, and not on any showing that Williams necessarily personally

possessed additional responsive information, apart from whatever assistance he could provide PNS

in searching its computers.

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*E-FILED 12/21/07*

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

FACEBOOK, INC., 

Plaintiff,

 v.

CONNECTU LLC, et al.,

Defendants. /

NO. C 07-01389 (RS)

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

ORDER SHORTENING TIME TO

HEAR WITHDRAWAL MOTION

Counsel for defendant Winston Williams moves to shorten the time for briefing and hearing

its motion to withdraw as his counsel. As a basis for hearing the motion on an expedited schedule,

counsel asserts that it has lost all contact with Williams and therefore cannot assist him in

responding to certain pending discovery requests or in providing the further responses the Court

recently ordered him to provide.1

No obvious purpose would be served by hearing the motion to withdraw on shortened time. 

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Whether or not counsel has withdrawn by any particular date, Williams’ personal obligation to

provide timely discovery responses and to comply with court orders will still exist. Accordingly, the

motion for an order shortening time is denied. Pending a ruling on the motion to withdraw, counsel

shall continue to make reasonable periodic efforts to contact Williams and to procure his cooperation

in fulfilling his obligations in this litigation.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 21, 2007 

RICHARD SEEBORG

United States Magistrate Judge

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THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT NOTICE OF THIS ORDER HAS BEEN GIVEN TO:

I. Neel Chatterjee nchatterjee@orrick.com, kmudurian@orrick.com

Monte M.F. Cooper mcooper@orrick.com, adalton@orrick.com, shart@orrick.com

Chester Wren-Ming Day cday@orrick.com, descamilla@orrick.com, mgirroir@orrick.com

Yvonne Penas Greer ygreer@orrick.com, atatagiba@orrick.com, sstillman@orrick.com

George Hopkins Guy , III hopguy@orrick.com, adalton@orrick.com, msagmit@orrick.com

Scott Richard Mosko scott.mosko@finnegan.com, karen.reimer@finnegan.com,

lissette.vazquez@finnegan.com, randal.holderfield@finnegan.com,

rosanna.herrick@finnegan.com

Theresa Ann Sutton tsutton@orrick.com, aako-nai@orrick.com, ygreer@orrick.com

Valerie Margo Wagner valerie.wagner@dechert.com

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel who have not

registered for e-filing under the Court's CM/ECF program. 

Dated: 12/21/07 Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: Chambers 

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