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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Anti-trust

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MICHAEL MCSHANE (127944) 

AUDET & PARTNERS, LLP 

221 Main Street, Suite 1460 

San Francisco, CA 94105-1938 

Telephone: (415) 568-2555 

Facsimile: (415) 568-2556 

mmcshane@audetlaw.com 

STEVE W. BERMAN 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2900 

Seattle, WA 98101 

Telephone: (206) 623-7292 

Facsimile: (206) 623-0594 

steve@hbsslaw.com 

george@hbsslaw.com 

DANIEL HUME 

KIRBY McINERNEY & SQUIRE, LLP 

830 Third Avenue 

New York, NY 10022 

Telephone: (212) 371-6600 

Facsimile: (212) 751-2540 

dhume@kmslaw.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Proposed Class 

[Additional Counsel Listed On Signature Page] 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

MICHAEL MALONE, individually and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

EBAY INC., 

Defendant. 

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Case No. C-07-01882-JF 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] CASE 

MANAGEMENT ORDER NO. 1

**E-filed 5/1/07** ---------------

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WHEREAS Plaintiff Michael Malone, on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated 

consumers who sold items through eBay Inc.’s (“eBay” or “Defendant”) auction service and were 

charged fees by eBay’s online payment system, filed a complaint on March 8, 2007, in the Western 

District of Texas, against eBay, alleging violations of federal and state antitrust laws and state 

consumer protection laws (Malone v. eBay, C.A. No. 1:07-CV-00174 (W.D. Tex.) (Yeakel, 

U.S.D.J.)); 

WHEREAS prior to Defendant’s answer or response, and at Defendant’s request, on April 4, 

2007, Malone filed (i) with the Western District of Texas a notice of voluntary dismissal and (ii) 

with this Court the instant complaint (the “Malone” action), Case No. 07-01882-JF; 

WHEREAS the action names eBay Inc. as Defendant and is brought on behalf of users of 

eBay Inc.’s on-line payment service, PayPal, who have allegedly paid excess fees on PayPal 

transactions; 

 WHEREAS Plaintiffs Ann Farmer and Todd Van Pelt filed a complaint against eBay in this 

District on April 23, 2007, Farmer, et al. v. eBay, Inc., Case No. C-07-02209, relating to the same 

subject matter and asserting substantially the same claims as Malone; 

WHEREAS counsel for all Plaintiffs have each concluded that it is in the best interests of the 

respective parties and absent putative class members that the above-captioned actions be 

consolidated for all purposes and proceed as contemplated herein; 

WHEREAS all served parties, through their respective counsel, have stipulated to the terms 

provided herein; 

WHEREAS it is anticipated that additional related actions may be transferred to, removed to, 

or filed in this Court; and 

WHEREAS the existence of common questions of law and fact in the actions now pending 

before this Court, the interests of fair and efficient administration of the actions and the avoidance of 

unnecessary duplicative efforts, warrants the consolidation of the actions, and the setting of a status 

conference to discuss, among other things, future motion practice and discovery, and good cause 

appearing therefore; 

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1 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, AGREED AND ORDERED AS FOLLOWS: 

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I. CONSOLIDATION OF RELATED ACTIONS 

1. The Court finds that Malone v. eBay Inc., Case No. 07-01882-JF and Farmer, et al. v. 

Ebay, Inc., Case No. C-07-02209 are related actions and such cases are hereby consolidated into 

Malone v. eBay Inc., Case No. 07-01882-JF, and are referred to herein as the Consolidated Action. 

II. MASTER DOCKET FILE 

2. The Clerk shall establish and maintain a Master Docket and Master File for this 

proceeding under the caption “In re eBay Seller Antitrust Litigation,” Case No. C-07-01882-JF. All 

orders, pleadings, motions, and other documents should, when filed and docketed in the Master File, 

be deemed filed and docketed in each individual case. 

3. Every pleading filed in these Consolidated Actions, or in any separate action included 

therein, shall bear the following caption: 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

 

IN RE EBAY SELLER ANTITRUST 

LITIGATION 

Case No. C-07-01882-JF 

 

4. These Consolidated Actions are subject to Electronic Case Filing (“ECF”), pursuant 

to General Order 45, Section VI of which requires that all documents in such a case be filed 

electronically. General Order 45 provides at Section VI(A) that “Each attorney of record is 

obligated to become an ECF User and be assigned a user ID and password for access to the system 

upon notification that the action is subject to ECF.” If she or he has not already done so, counsel 

shall register forthwith as an ECF User and be issued an ECF User ID and password. Forms and 

instructions can be found on the Court’s website at https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov. 

5. All counsel shall be required to register immediately for ECF filing, and ECF filing in 

Case No. C-07-01882-JF shall be deemed sufficient service on all parties for all documents able to 

be publicly filed, and that parties are excused from any duty under General Order 45, part (IX)(C)(2) 

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to serve paper copies of any filing in these proceedings, with the exception of filings made under 

seal. 

6. At the time of filing of original papers with the Clerk’s Office, the parties will submit 

one additional conformed copy of each document designated “JF Chambers Copy.” 

III. APPLICABILITY OF ORDER 

7. This Order shall apply to all actions instituted in, removed to, or transferred to this 

Court that involve the same or substantially similar issues of law and fact (collectively, “the 

Consolidated Actions.”), subject to the following procedures: 

(a) When such a case is filed in, removed to, or transferred to this Court, the 

Clerk of the Court shall: 

(i) place a copy of this Order in the separate file for such action; 

(ii) provide a copy of this Order by mail or electronically pursuant to local 

rules to counsel for Plaintiff(s) in the newly-filed or transferred action and to any Defendant(s) in the 

newly-filed or transferred action; and 

(iii) make an appropriate entry on the Master Docket for the Consolidated 

Actions. 

(b) Each new case that arises out of the subject matter of the Consolidated Action, 

which is filed in this Court or transferred to this Court, shall be consolidated with the Consolidated 

Actions and this Order shall apply to that action, unless a party in such newly-filed or transferred 

action objects to consolidation, within ten (10) days after the date upon which a copy of this Order is 

served on counsel for such party, by filing an application for relief, and this Court deems it 

appropriate to grant such application. 

8. Counsel shall call to the attention of the Court and the Clerk the filing or transfer of 

any case which might properly be consolidated with the Consolidated Actions. Mailing or other 

delivery of a copy of this Order by Defendant’s counsel or Plaintiffs’ counsel, as appropriate, to the 

counsel in any newly-filed or transferred actions shall constitute valid notice thereof for purposes of 

establishing its applicability to such action in accordance with this Order. 

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1 IV. APPOINTMENT OF INTERIM CLASS COUNSEL 

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9. Pursuant to Rule 23(g)(2), the Court will appoint interim co-lead counsel to act on 

behalf of class members as well as on behalf of other counsel for the Plaintiffs. 

V. FILING AND SERVICE OF CONSOLIDATED COMPLAINT AND 

RESPONSIVE PLEADINGS 

10. Plaintiffs shall file a Consolidated Class Action Complaint on or before May 11, 

2007. The Consolidated Class Action Complaint shall serve as the Operative Complaint in this 

action and shall supersede any other complaint previously filed in Malone and/or any related case. 

11. Waiving only the defenses of insufficiency of process and insufficiency of service of 

process, the undersigned counsel, on behalf of Defendant, shall acknowledge service of the 

Operative Complaint in this action. Defendant is hereby expressly relieved from answering or 

otherwise responding to the initial complaint or any complaint filed in any subsequent civil action 

that is consolidated with this action. 

12. If the Defendant elects to answer the Operative Complaint, its Answer shall be filed 

no later than June 8, 2007. 

13. If the Defendant elects to move in response to the Operative Complaint, its motion 

shall be filed no later than June 8, 2007. Plaintiffs shall file their response to any motion no later 

than July 6, 2007. Defendant shall file its reply papers in support of any such motion no later than 

July 27, 2007. 

14. The hearing on any motion to dismiss shall be set to coincide with a Case 

Management Conference, on August 10, 2007, or as soon thereafter as may be heard by the Court, or 

in the event that the Defendant answers the Operative Complaint, such other date as the Court may 

determine. 

15. For purposes of the statute of limitations, the Consolidated Class Action Complaint 

shall be deemed to have been filed on March 8, 2007, the date in which Plaintiff Malone filed his 

case in the Western District of Texas. 

VI. PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE 

16. The parties shall preserve evidence in accordance with applicable law. 

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1 VII. FILING OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS AND RESPONSES 

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17. In accordance with Rule 5(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, discovery 

requests and responses are not to be filed with the Clerk, or sent to Judge’s Chambers, except to the 

extent needed in connection with a motion. 

 IT IS SO STIPULATED AND AGREED. 

Dated: April 30, 2007 AUDET & PARTNERS, LLP 

By /s/ Michael McShane 

 Michael McShane 

221 Main Street, Suite 1460 

San Francisco, CA 94105-1938 

Telephone: (415) 568-2555 

Facsimile: (415) 568-2556 

mmcshane@audetlaw.com 

Dated: April 30, 2007 HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

By /s/ Steve W. Berman 

 Steve W. Berman 

George W. Sampson 

1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2900 

Seattle, WA 98101 

Telephone: (206) 623-7292 

Facsimile: (206) 623-0594 

steve@hbsslaw.com 

george@hbsslaw.com 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

Reed R. Kathrein (139304) 

Jeff D. Friedman (173886) 

Shana E. Scarlett (217895) 

425 Second Street, Suite 500 

San Francisco, California 94107 

Telephone: (415) 896-6300 

Facsimile: (415) 896-6301 

reed@hbsslaw.com 

shanas@hbsslaw.com

jefff@hbsslaw.com 

Dated: April 30, 2007 KIRBY McINERNEY & SQUIRE, LLP 

By /s/ Daniel Hume 

 Daniel Hume 

David Kovel 

Beverly Tse (237240) 

830 Third Avenue 

New York, NY 10022 

Telephone: (212) 371-6600 

Facsimile: (212) 751-2540 

dkovel@kmslaw.com 

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FINKELSTEIN THOMPSON LLP 

Mila Bartos 

Doug Thompson 

The Duvall Foundry 

1050 30th Street, N.W. 

Washington, DC 20007 

Telephone: (202) 337-8000 

Facsimile: (202) 337-8090 

mbartos@finkelsteinthompson.com 

dthompson@finkelsteinthompson.com 

LAW OFFICES OF MALLISON & MARTINEZ 

Stan S. Mallison (184191) 

Hector Martinez (206336) 

1042 Brown Avenue, Suite A 

Lafayette, California 94549 

Telephone: (925) 283-3842 

Facsimile: (925) 283-3426 

StanM@mallisonlaw.com

RABIN & PECKEL, LLP 

I. Stephen Rabin 

Joseph P. Garland 

Joseph V. McBride 

275 Madison Avenue 

Suite 420 

New York, New York 10016 

Telephone: (212) 880-3722 

Facsimile: (212) 880-3716 

srabin@rabinpeckel.com 

jpg65@columbia.edu 

jmcbride@rabinpeckel.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class 

Dated: April 30, 2007 O’MELVENY & MYERS 

By /s/ Thomas P. Brown 

 Thomas P. Brown 

Richard G. Parker (62356) 

Michael F. Tubach (145955) 

Embarcadero Center West 

 275 Battery Street 

 San Francisco, Ca 94111-3305 

Telephone: (415) 984-8700 

Facsimile: (415) 984-8701 

rparker@omm.com 

mtubach@omm.com 

tbrown@omm.com 

Attorneys for Defendant eBay Inc. 

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1 ORDER

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IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 

HON. JEREMY D. FOGEL 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

I, Jeff D. Friedman, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this 

Stipulation And [Proposed] Case Management Order No. 1. In compliance with General Order 

45, X.B., I hereby attest that Michael McShane, Steve W. Berman, Daniel Hume, and Thomas P. 

Brown have concurred in this filing. 

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1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

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I hereby certify that on April 30, 2007, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk 

of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the e-mail 

addresses registered, as denoted on the attached Electronic Mail Notice List, and I hereby certify 

that I have mailed the foregoing document or paper via the United States Postal Service to the 

non-CM/ECF participants indicated on the attached Manual Notice List. 

/s/ Jeff D. Friedman 

JEFF D. FRIEDMAN 

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Mailing Information for a Case 5:07-cv-01882-JF 

Electronic Mail Notice List 

The following are those who are currently on the list to receive e-mail notices for this case. 

z Brynly R. Llyr

bllyr@omm.com dbordessa@omm.com 

z Michael McShane

mmcshane@audetlaw.com 

z I. Stephen Rabin

srabin@rabinpeckel.com info@rabinpeckel.com 

z Beverly Tse

btse@kmslaw.com 

Manual Notice List 

The following is the list of attorneys who are not on the list to receive e-mail notices for this case (who 

therefore require manual noticing). You may wish to use your mouse to select and copy this list into 

your word processing program in order to create notices or labels for these recipients. 

Ann Farmer

Joseph P. Garland

Klein & Solomon LLP 

275 Madison Avenue 

11th Floor 

New York, NY 10016 

Daniel Hume

Attorney at Law 

830 Third Avenue 

10th Floor 

New York, NY 10022 

David E. Kovel

Kirby McInerney Squire LLP 

830 Third Avenue 

New York, NY 10022 

Joseph V. McBride

Murray Frank & Sailer LLP 

275 Madison Avenue 

New York, NY 10016 

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