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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:504 Copyright Infringement

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ODNIL MUSIC LIMITED and 

FIFTY-SIX HOPE ROAD MUSIC 

LIMITED,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-05-545 WBS EFB

vs.

KATHARSIS LLC, WILLIAM

JOSEPH SCHECK and NATHANIEL ORDER

CHRISTOPHER SCHECK,

Defendants. 

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Currently before the court are the Magistrate Judge’s Proposed Findings and

Recommendations, which recommend that plaintiffs’ (and now judgment creditors’) motion for a

temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction be granted. Defendant and judgment

debtor, William J. Scheck, has been given until June 29, 2007, to file objections to those

proposed Findings and Recommendations. However, the Magistrate Judge has also

recommended that a temporary retraining order issue pending this Court’s de novo review of the

Proposed Findings and Recommendations. This court concurs that a temporary restraining order

is appropriate for the reasons stated by the Magistrate Judge. The Magistrate Judge has found

both a probability of success on the claim that the asset in question, the proceeds from the

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pending sale of a certain property, is subject to the judgment entered in this case. See Cal. Civ.

Code §§ 3439.04; 15304 and 18200; Hall, Goodhue, Haisley & Barker, Inc. v. Marconi

Conference Center Board, 41 Cal.App.4th 1551, 1554-1555 (1996). The Magistrate Judge has

further found that unless retrained, there is a probability that the asset will be concealed or

dissipated and that plaintiffs will lose the ability to pursue their remedies as to that asset under

the California Civil Code.

Accordingly, pursuant to Rule 65, Fed R. Civ P, and section 708.240(a) and (b), Cal. Civ.

Proc. Code (authorizing temporary retraining orders and preliminary injunctions to prevent

transfer of control of an asset from a third party to the judgment debtor or any party), which are

applicable here under Rule 69, Fed. R. Civ. P., a temporary restraining order is hereby entered

until such time as this Court enters an order on the recommendation that a preliminary injunction

be entered. The defendant, William J. Scheck, his employees, agents, and all persons in active

concert or participation with him, are restrained from transferring or disposing of $100,000 of the

proceeds from the sale of the Owl Club out of the escrow account maintained by Placer Title

Company at 193 Fulweiler Avenue, Auburn, California 95603, (or any lesser amount currently

deposited therein concerning that sale), pending final determination of judgment creditors’ right

to attach the sale proceeds for satisfaction of the judgment of $85,545.52 plus post-judgment

interest, enforcement costs and sanctions. Specifically, $100,000 of the sales proceeds or any

lesser amount currently on deposit shall remain in the Placer Title Company escrow pending this

court’s order on the Findings and Recommendations that a preliminary injunction be entered.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: June 26, 2007

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