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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Fraud

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Christopher T. Holland [State Bar No. 164053] cholland@kksrr.com

Lori L. Behun [State Bar No. 202309] lbehun@kksrr.com

Anjali Kumar [State Bar No. 227075] akumar@kksrr.com

KRIEG, KELLER, SLOAN, REILLEY & ROMAN LLP

114 Sansome Street, 4th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: (415) 249-8330 

Facsimile: (415) 249-8333 

Attorneys for Defendants 

DIRECTREVENUE, LLC, CHRIS DOWHAN, JOSHUA ABRAM, 

THE BEST OFFERS NETWORK, LLC 

(formerly known as and named in the complaint as BETTERINTERNET, LLC) 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MATINA DIANE BATTAGLIA, an individual 

for herself and all those similarly situated, 

PETER MARTIN, an individual for himself and 

all those similarly situated, 

 Plaintiffs, 

v. 

DIRECTREVENUE, LLC, a Washington 

Limited Liability Corporation, CHRIS 

DOWHAN; JOSHUA ABRAM, 

BETTERINTERNET, LLC, DOES 1 through 

50, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

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Plaintiffs Matina Diane Battaglia (“Battaglia”), an individual for herself and all those 

similarly situated, and Peter Martin (“Martin”), an individual for himself and all those similarly 

situated, (hereafter collectively, “Plaintiffs” or the “Class Representatives”), and defendants 

DirectRevenue, LLC, and The Best Offers Network, LLC (f/k/a BetterInternet, LLC) (collectively, 

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“DirectRevenue”),and the individual defendants, Chris Dowhan and Joshua Abram (collectively, 

“Individual Defendants”) (all defendants are collectively referred to herein as the “Settling 

Defendants”) having made a joint request pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure for a preliminary order approving the proposed settlement of this lawsuit in accordance 

with the Settlement Agreement and Limited Release (the “Agreement”) filed with this Court, and the 

Court having read and considered the Agreement, and Plaintiffs and the Settling Defendants having 

consented to the entry of this Order: 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 

 1. The Agreement, and all of its terms and conditions, is preliminarily approved as fair, 

just, reasonable and adequate, subject to further consideration at a final approval hearing (the “Final 

Approval Hearing”); 

 2. Pursuant to Federal Rule 23(b)(2), the Court conditionally certifies, subject to final 

certification in connection with final approval of the Agreement, the following defined class (the 

“Class”): “All persons or entities who owned computers in California and who had DirectRevenue’s 

targeted advertising software (the “Software”)1

 downloaded onto their computers in California at 

any time on or after March 31, 2002.” Excluded from the Class are Defendants, and all of their 

officers, directors, employees, agents and attorneys; 

 3. The Court approves the form of the Summary Settlement Notice (Exhibit C to the 

Agreement) and the Settlement Notice (Exhibit D to the Agreement) and directs that these notices be 

published to the Class as specified in Paragraph 5 of the Agreement; 

 4. The Final Approval Hearing is scheduled herein for December 11, 2006, at which 

 

1 As defined in the Agreement, the term Software includes the following DirectRevenue software files: Bi.dll; 

MultiMPP; Btgrab.dll; mxTarget.dll; ; Dlmax.dll; iehelper.dll; pynix.dll; Host.dll; TPS108.dll; IPInsigt.dll; 

Twaintec.dll; LocalNRD.dll; VoiceIP.dll; VX2.dll; ZServ.dll; Ceres.dll; Speer.dll; Speer2.dll; Speeryox.dll; 

AHexe.dll; kz515.dll; Aurora.exe (polymorphic); buddy.exe; Tbon.exe; Tbonsn.exe; Tbonuac.exe 

(polymorphic); Tboncst.ee; Gsim.dll; systb.dll; Dinst.dll; dinst.exe; TBONcomp.dll; TBONAS.exe.

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time the Court will consider the entry of the Final Approval Order and Judgment of Dismissal 

(Exhibit E to the Agreement); and 

 5. The deadline for Class Members to file and serve written objections to the final 

approval of the Agreement is November 17, 2006. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: August 23, 2006 

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