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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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ARDELL JOHNSON, State Bar No. 095340

111 N. Market Street, Suite 300

San Jose, CA 95113-1116

Telephone: (408) 444-6009

Facsimile: (408) 332-5875

Email: arjoh@pacbell.net

Attorneys for Plaintiff

MEHRDAD NIKOONAHAD

KEITH E. EGGLETON, State Bar No. 159842

RODNEY G. STRICKLAND, JR., State Bar No. 161934

ANTHONY J WEIBELL, State Bar No. 238850

WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI, P.C.

650 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1050

Telephone: (650) 493-9300

Facsimile: (650) 565-5100

Email: keggleton@wsgr.com; rstrickland@wsgr.com; aweibell@wsgr.com

Attorneys for Defendant

RUDOLPH TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

MEHRDAD NIKOONAHAD,

Plaintiff,

v.

RUDOLPH TECHNOLOGIES, INC. and

DOES 1-25, inclusive,

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CASE NO.: C 08-2290 JF

REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF

CASE MANAGEMENT

CONFERENCE UNTIL

COMPLETION OF SCHEDULED

MEDIATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER THEREON; AND UPDATE

TO PRIOR JOINT STATEMENT

Current date: March 12, 2010

Time: 10:30 AM

Dept: 3

Judge: Hon. Jeremy Fogel

REQUESTED NEW CONFERENCE

DATE: APRIL 30, 2010

**E-Filed 3/11/2010**

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The mediation of this action has been scheduled for April 14, 2010. The mediation will

occur in Palo Alto before an experienced professional mediator. Plaintiff Mehrdad Nikoonahad

and defendant Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (“Rudolph”) therefore jointly request a continuance of

the Case Management Conference currently scheduled for March 12, 2010 so that the

Conference occurs after the mediation has been completed. The parties request the Court to

continue the Conference to April 30, 2010.

The parties also respectfully submit the following update to the Joint Case Management

Statement that was filed on December 24, 2009.

BACKGROUND

On May 13, 2009, the Court entered an order granting in part and denying in part

Rudolph’s motion to dismiss Nikoonahad’s second amended complaint without leave to amend.

Pursuant to that order, the Court dismissed all claims except for Nikoonahad’s claim for breach

of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. Rudolph filed its answer to the second

amended complaint and counterclaims on June 1, 2009. On September 4, 2009, the Court

entered an order granting Nikoonahad’s motion to dismiss Rudolph’s counterclaims with leave to

file amended counterclaims by October 5, 2009. Rudolph did not file amended counterclaims.

At the June 19, 2009, Case Management Conference the Court ordered the parties to

mediate this dispute within 90 days of completing certain discovery.

UPDATE TO PRIOR JOINT STATEMENT

The parties submitted a joint statement regarding the status of this case on December 24,

2009. See Docket No. 90. The following developments have occurred since the filing of that

joint statement.

1. On December 16, 2009, Magistrate Judge Trumbull ordered the parties to meet and

confer and submit a joint, or else their respective, form of a proposed protective order governing

confidentiality that tracks the language of the Court’s model protective order. The parties

submitted the requested proposed protective order to Judge Trumbull on January 7, 2010.

2. On January 19, 2010, plaintiff served his written responses to Rudolph’s first set of

written discovery requests and interrogatories. On February 8, 2010, following meet-and-confer

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correspondence between the parties, plaintiff served amended written responses to Rudolph’s

first set of interrogatories. On February 17, 2010, plaintiff served amended written responses to

Rudolph’s first set of document requests and produced documents responsive to Rudolph’s

document requests.

3. On January 26 and February 25, 2010, Rudolph produced documents responsive to

plaintiff’s document requests.

4. The parties are continuing to discuss certain outstanding discovery issues. Rudolph

has also issued a second set of requests for the production of documents.

5. At the time of the June 2009 case management conference, the parties contemplated

conducting a limited number of depositions before mediating this lawsuit. In February 2010, the

parties agreed to conduct a mediation prior to incurring the time and expense of depositions. The

parties selected a mediator and scheduled the mediation to occur on April 14, 2010 in Palo Alto.

THE PARTIES’ JOINT REQUEST

The parties jointly request a continuance of the Case Management Conference currently

scheduled for March 12, 2010, so that the parties can report the results of the mediation to the

Court. The parties request the Court to continue the Conference to April 30, 2010, which is

approximately two weeks after the mediation.

Dated: March 3, 2010 ARDELL JOHNSON

By: /s/ Ardell Johnson

Ardell Johnson

Attorney for Plaintiff

MEHRDAD NIKOONAHAD

Dated: March 3, 2010 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI

Professional Corporation

By: /s/ Rodney G. Strickland, Jr.

Rodney G. Strickland, Jr.

Attorneys for Defendant

RUDOLPH TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ request that the Case Management Conference be rescheduled for

a date after the parties’ April 14, 2010 mediation, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Case

Management Conference previously scheduled for March 12, 2010 shall be continued to April

30, 2010 at 10:30a.m.

DATED: ____________________ ____________________________________

THE HON. JEREMY FOGEL

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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Pursuant to General Order 45, the undersigned certifies that concurrence in the filing of

the document was obtained from each of the signatories above.

Dated: March 3, 2010 By: /s/ Anthony J Weibell

Anthony J Weibell

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