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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:101 Copyright Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ROBERT LAUGHLIN, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

TODD WALKER, and DOES 1 to 30, 

 Defendants. 

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CASE NO. 2:06-CV-01932 - KJM 

STIPULATION TO FILE A 

DISPOSITIVE MOTION AND TO 

VACATE THE DATE FOR THE 

PRETRIAL CONFERENCE; 

DECLARATION OF JOANNA R. 

MENDOZA IN SUPPORT OF 

SAME; ORDER 

The parties hereto, through their undersigned counsel of record, hereby stipulate, 

under Local Rule 6.2, to have the date for the Pretrial Conference, currently schedule for 

November 7, 2007, vacated and reset to a later date. 

The parties further stipulate and agree that the defendant, Todd Walker, shall be 

allowed to file a Motion to Dismiss or, in the alternative, Motion for Summary Judgment, on 

the sole issue of the consequence, if any, of plaintiff Robert Laughlin’s not seeking to register 

of apply for registration of his copyright rights at issue in the pleadings prior to bringing the 

subject copyright infringement action, with a hearing date to be set by the court accordingly. 

The parties stipulate and agree that a new date for the Pretrial Conference shall not be set until 

JOANNA R. MENDOZA, State Bar No. 148320

MALOVOS & MENDOZA, LLP 

3620 American River Drive, Suite 215 

Sacramento, CA 95864 

(916) 974-8600 

(916) 974-8608 FAX 

jrm@malovoslaw.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

TODD WALKER 

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a time after said motion has been heard and ruled upon by this court. 

DATED: October 9, 2007 MALOVOS & MENDOZA, LLP 

 BY: _/s/ Joanna R. Mendoza____

 JOANNA R. MENDOZA 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 TODD WALKER 

DATED: October 9, 2007 JACOBS, ANDERSON, POTTER & CHAPLIN 

 By: /s/ Douglas Bram Jacobs 

 DOUGLAS BRAM JACOBS 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 ROBERT LAUGHLIN 

DECLARATION OF JOANNA R. MENDOZA 

I, Joanna R. Mendoza, declare: 

1. I am an attorney at law duly admitted to appear in all the courts of the State of 

California as well as the United States Districts Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts 

of California, and am a partner in the law firm of Malovos & Mendoza, LLP, attorneys of 

record Todd Walker, defendant in the above-captioned matter. 

2. On September 28, 2007, I received notification from the Court that the Pretrial 

Conference had been set for November 7, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. This matter had been 

previously set for a Pretrial Conference on October 22, 2007, with Judge Shubb. However, on 

September 27, 2007, this matter was reassigned and all prior dates vacated. 

3. On October 2, 2007, I received an email from Plaintiff’s counsel, Douglas 

Jacobs, (emailed on October 1, 2007), stating that that he is unavailable to attend the Pretrial 

Conference on November 7, 2007, and asked that I stipulate to change the date since he has to 

be in court in Redding on that date. 

4. In March of 2007, I was up for trial on another matter in the Sacramento 

County Superior Court. When the matter did not get a courtroom immediately for the trial, 

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the parties were assigned to Department 39 and Judge Talmadge Jones as our trial judge. We 

were scheduled for trial on Judge Jones’ calendar for October 29, 2007. Both parties have 

estimated the jury trial to take up to 5 or more court days to try. Thus, even if the trial should 

be completed and the jury verdict in by the time of the November 7, 2007, Pretrial 

Conference, there will be no time for defendants’ counsel to prepare for the conference for an 

approximate three-week period prior to the November 7th date. 

5. On October 4, 2007, I responded to Mr. Jacobs via email with this proposed 

stipulation, asking that he stipulate to allow time for filing a dispositive motion in the 

Laughlin v. Walker case on the issue of registration only, and thereby putting off the Pretrial 

Conference until a time after such a motion would be heard by the court. 

6. Extending the Pretrial Conference in this matter will not adversely impact any 

other scheduling in this case and will provide defendant time to bring a motion to dismiss or, 

in the alternative, for summary judgment on the issue of the plaintiff’s failure to register or 

apply for registration of the subject copyright rights prior to bringing the action. Now that 

discovery has concluded and the parties have made a good faith attempt at an informal 

resolution of this matter through the court’s VDRP program, such a motion will likely either 

entirely conclude the case or, at the very least, eliminate a major issue that will need to be 

determine prior to trial in any case, 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that 

the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 9th day of October, 2007, in Sacramento, 

California. 

 _/s/ Joanna R. Mendoza____

 JOANNA R. MENDOZA 

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ORDER

AS PROVIDED BY THE STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES, IT IS ORDERED that 

the Pretrial Conference in the above-captioned matter currently set for November 7, 2007, be 

vacated and a new date set, if necessary, following the determination of the Defendant’s 

Motion to Dismiss or, Alternatively, Motion for Summary Judgment. Defendant’s motion 

shall be filed no later than November 7, 2007, and is set for hearing at 10:00 a.m. in 

Courtroom No. 26, on December 5, 2007. 

DATED: October 18, 2007.

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