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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:501 Copyright Infringement

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Matthew Franklin Jaksa (CA State Bar No. 248072) 

HOLME ROBERTS & OWEN LLP

560 Mission Street, 25th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2994 

Telephone: (415) 268-2000 

Facsimile: (415) 268-1999 

Email: matt.jaksa@hro.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 

ARISTA RECORDS LLC; ATLANTIC RECORDING CORPORATION; 

BMG MUSIC; CAPITOL RECORDS, INC.; ELEKTRA 

ENTERTAINMENT GROUP INC.; INTERSCOPE RECORDS; LAFACE 

RECORDS LLC; MAVERICK RECORDING COMPANY; MOTOWN 

RECORD COMPANY, L.P.; PRIORITY RECORDS LLC; SONY BMG 

MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT; UMG RECORDINGS, INC.; VIRGIN 

RECORDS AMERICA, INC.; and WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ARISTA RECORDS LLC, a Delaware limited liability 

company; ATLANTIC RECORDING 

CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation; BMG 

MUSIC, a New York general partnership; CAPITOL 

RECORDS, INC., a Delaware corporation; ELEKTRA 

ENTERTAINMENT GROUP INC., a Delaware 

corporation; INTERSCOPE RECORDS, a California 

general partnership; LAFACE RECORDS LLC, a 

Delaware limited liability company; MAVERICK 

RECORDING COMPANY, a California joint venture; 

MOTOWN RECORD COMPANY, L.P., a California 

limited partnership; PRIORITY RECORDS LLC, a 

California limited liability company; SONY BMG 

MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, a Delaware general 

partnership; UMG RECORDINGS, INC., a Delaware 

corporation; VIRGIN RECORDS AMERICA, INC., a 

California corporation; and WARNER BROS. 

RECORDS INC., a Delaware corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

DOES 1-16, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 07-1641 LKK EFB 

ORDER GRANTING EX PARTE 

APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO TAKE 

IMMEDIATE DISCOVERY 

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Upon the Plaintiffs’ Ex Parte Application for Leave to Take Immediate Discovery, 

the Declaration of Carlos Linares, and the accompanying Memorandum of Law, it is hereby 

ORDERED that Plaintiffs may serve immediate discovery on University of California, Davis to 

obtain the identity of each Doe Defendant by serving a Rule 45 subpoena that seeks documents that 

identify each Doe Defendant, including the name, current (and permanent) addresses and telephone 

numbers, e-mail addresses, and Media Access Control addresses for each Defendant. 

Although parties must generally meet and confer prior to seeking expedited 

discovery, that requirement may be dispensed if good cause is shown. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(d); 

Semitool, Inc. v. Tokyo Electron Am., Inc., 208 F.R.D. 273, 275-76 (N.D. Cal. 2002). Here, the 

plaintiffs have presented evidence that the subpoena is necessary to identify the defendants, serve 

them with the complaint and summons, and prosecute their claims of copyright infringement. See

Gillespie v. Civletti, 629 F.2d 637, 642 (9th Cir. 1980) (“where the identity of alleged defendants 

will not be known prior to the filing of a complaint . . . . the plaintiff should be given an opportunity 

through discovery to identify the unknown defendants, unless it is clear that discovery would not 

uncover the identities, or that the complaint would be dismissed on other grounds.”). Plaintiffs have 

further averred that records kept by internet service providers (“ISP”) such as the University of 

California, Davis, are regularly destroyed, sometimes on a daily or weekly basis. See Linares

Declaration, at ¶ 24. Based on the foregoing, the court finds that plaintiffs have demonstrated good 

cause for the expedited discovery. 

The disclosure of this information is ordered pursuant to 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(b)(2)(B). 

Consistent with that provision, if and when the University of California, Davis is served with a 

subpoena, it shall, within five business days, give written notice to the subscribers whose identities 

are to be disclosed in response to the subpoena. Such written notice may be achieved by messages 

sent via electronic mail. If the University of California, Davis, and/or any defendant wishes to move 

to quash the subpoena, they shall do so before the return date of the subpoena. 

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT any information disclosed to Plaintiffs in 

response to the Rule 45 subpoena may be used by Plaintiffs solely for the purpose of protecting 

Plaintiffs’ rights under the Copyright Act. 

Dated: _________________ 

 

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