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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 15:78m(a) Securities Exchange Act

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Case No. 3:17-cv-04830-JST

JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING DEADLINE FOR FILING 

SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT AND BRIEFING SCHEDULE FOR ANTICIPATED 

MOTION(S) TO DISMISS

Adam C. McCall (SBN: 302130) 

amccall@zlk.com 

Adam M. Apton (SBN: 316506) 

aapton@zlk.com 

LEVI & KORSINSKY, LLP 

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 650 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 291-2420 

Facsimile: (415) 484-1294 

Nicholas I. Porritt 

nporritt@zlk.com

LEVI & KORSINSKY, LLP 

1101 30th Street N.W., Suite 115 

Washington, D.C. 20007 

Tel: (202) 524-4290 

Fax: (202) 333-2121

Attorneys for Lead Plaintiff and the Class

Michael A. Mugmon (SBN: 251958)

michael.mugmon@wilmerhale.com

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

950 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, CA 94304

Telephone: +1 650 858 6000

Facsimile: +1 650 858 6100

Michael G. Bongiorno (admitted pro hac vice)

michael.bongiorno@wilmerhale.com

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

7 World Trade Center

250 Greenwich Street

New York, NY 10007

Telephone: +1 212 230 8800

Facsimile: +1 212 230 8888

Attorneys for Defendants

[Additional counsel listed on following page]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

INCHEN HUANG, Individually and on Behalf of 

All Others Similarly Situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

ASSERTIO THERAPEUTICS, INC., ARTHUR 

JOSEPH HIGGINS, JAMES A. SCHOENECK, and 

AUGUST J. MORETTI,

Defendants.

Case No. 3:17-cv-04830-JST

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING 

DEADLINE FOR FILING SECOND 

AMENDED COMPLAINT AND 

BRIEFING SCHEDULE FOR 

ANTICIPATED MOTION(S) TO DISMISS

Judge: Hon. Jon S. Tigar

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WHEREAS, on August 18, 2017, Inchen Huang filed a federal securities class action lawsuit 

against defendants Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. f/k/a Depomed, Inc., Arthur Higgins, James Schoeneck, 

and August Moretti (collectively, the “Defendants”);

WHEREAS, on December 8, 2017, the Court entered an Order appointing the Depomed 

Investor Group as Lead Plaintiff, and approving Levi & Korsinsky, LLP to serve as Lead Counsel 

(ECF No. 52);

WHEREAS, on February 6, 2018 Lead Plaintiff filed its First Amended Complaint (ECF No. 

61);

WHEREAS, on April 9, 2018 Defendants filed a Motion to Dismiss the First Amended 

Complaint (ECF No. 66);

WHERAS, on March 18, 2019 the Court Granted Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss without 

prejudice, and gave Lead Plaintiff 21 days to file a Second Amended Complaint (ECF No. 83); 

WHEREAS, Lead Plaintiff anticipates filing a Second Amended Complaint and Defendants 

anticipate moving to dismiss the anticipated Second Amended Complaint;

WHEREAS, Lead Plaintiff and Defendants have met and conferred regarding a schedule for 

the filing of a second amended complaint and a briefing schedule for Defendants’ anticipated 

motion(s) to dismiss.

NOW, THEREFORE, having met and conferred, Lead Plaintiff and Defendants have agreed 

to and respectively submit, for approval by the Court, the following schedule for the filing of and 

responding to an amended complaint:

1. Lead Plaintiff shall file a second amended complaint by May 2, 2019;

2. Defendants shall answer or otherwise respond to the second amended complaint by June 

17, 2019;

3. If Defendants move to dismiss the amended complaint, Lead Plaintiff shall file its

opposition(s) by August 1, 2019;

4. Defendants shall file their replies in support of any motion(s) to dismiss by August 30, 

2019;

5. Counsel for the parties shall meet and confer to agree on a proposed hearing date in 

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connection with the motion to dismiss the consolidated amended complaint, subject to the 

Court’s availability; and

6. The initial scheduling date set forth in the Court’s March 18, 2019 Order, ECF No. 83, is

vacated.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: March 29, 2019 LEVI & KORSINSKY, LLP

/s/ Adam C. McCall

Adam C. McCall (SBN 302130)

Adam M. Apton (SBN 316506)

Nicholas I. Porritt (admitted pro hac vice)

Attorneys for Lead Plaintiff and the Class

DATED: March 29, 2019 WILMER CUTLER PICKERING 

 HALE & DORR LLP

/s/ Michael A. Mugmon

Michael A. Mugmon (SBN: 251958)

Michael G. Bongiorno (admitted pro hac vice)

Attorney for Defendants

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED:

HONORABLE JON S. TIGAR

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

April 2, 2019

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SIGNATURE ATTESTATION

I am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used to file the foregoing Joint 

Stipulation and Proposed Order. In compliance with Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest that the other 

signatories have concurred in this filing.

Dated: March 29, 2019_______ By: /s/ Adam C. McCall

Adam C. McCall (SBN: 302130)

LEVI & KORSINSKY, LLP

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 650

San Francisco, California 94104

Attorneys for Lead Plaintiffs and the Class 

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