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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME FOR DEFENDANTS TO 

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26709346_1.DOC CASE NO. 4:11-cv-02340-DMR

THAD A. DAVIS (SBN 220503)

thad.davis@ropesgray.com 

ROCKY C. TSAI (SBN 221452) 

rocky.tsai@ropesgray.com 

ROPES & GRAY LLP 

Three Embarcadero Center, Ste 300 

San Francisco, California 94111-4006 

Tel: (415) 315- 6300 

Fax: (415) 315-6350 

HARVEY J. WOLKOFF (Subject to admission pro hac vice) 

harvey.wolkoff@ropesgray.com 

MARK P. SZPAK 

mark.szpak@ropesgray.com 

LARA A. ORAVEC 

lara.oravec@ropesgray.com 

ROPES & GRAY LLP 

Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street 

Boston, MA 02199-3600 

Tel: (617) 951-7606 

Fax: (617) 235-0215 

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

GEORGE THOMPSON, individually and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, a 

Delaware Limited Liability Company, SONY 

COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA 

LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company; 

SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT 

INTERNATIONAL LLC, a Delaware Limited 

Liability Company; and SONY CORPORATION 

OF AMERICA, a New York Corporation, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 4:11-cv-02340-DMR

STIPULATION TO EXTEND 

TIME FOR DEFENDANTS TO 

MOVE, ANSWER, OR 

OTHERWISE RESPOND TO 

COMPLAINT, ORDER

Judge: Donna M. Ryu 

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WHEREAS, defendants Sony Online Entertainment LLC (“SOE”), Sony Computer 

Entertainment America LLC (“SCEA”) (f/k/a Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.), 

Sony Network Entertainment International LLC (“SNEI”) and Sony Corporation of America 

(“SCA”), as well as certain related entities (collectively, the “Sony Defendants”), have been 

named as defendants in at least twenty-five (25) putative class action lawsuits within this District, 

to date; 

WHEREAS, certain of the Sony Defendants have also been named as defendants in at 

least nineteen (19) putative class action lawsuits pending outside this District, to date; 

WHEREAS, a motion is currently pending before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict 

Litigation (the “JPML”) to centralize this and other matters, to which one response has been filed 

to date, and as to which other responses, including Sony Defendants’ response, are due by June 2, 

2011. 

WHEREAS, the current deadline for SOE, SCEA, SNEI and SCA to respond to the 

Complaint is July 26, 2011; 

WHEREAS, the parties have agreed to the extension of time herein for the defendants in 

the above-captioned action to move, answer, or otherwise respond to the Complaint, in order to 

facilitate the scheduling of this matter in coordination with the schedule for the motion before the 

JPML; 

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to Civil Local Rules 6-1(a), 7-1(a), and 7-12, all parties, 

by and through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate as follows: 

The deadline for the defendants to respond to the Complaint in the above-captioned action 

is extended until and including 30 days after a consolidated complaint is filed in a multidistrict 

litigation centralizing the above-captioned action with other matters, or if centralization is denied 

by the JPML, then 30 days from the date of such order denying centralization. 

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Either party may seek ex parte relief from this stipulated Order for good cause shown, 

including, but not limited to, Defendants’ filing of a responsive pleading in a related case.

Dated: May 31, 2011 VAHN ALEXANDER

FARUQI & FARUQI, LLP 

 By: /s/ Vahn Alexander /s/ [as authorized]

 Vahn Alexander

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

GEORGE THOMPSON 

Dated: May 31, 2011 HARVEY WOLKOFF 

THAD A. DAVIS 

ROCKY C. TSAI 

ROPES & GRAY LLP 

By: /s/ Rocky C. Tsai /s/ 

Rocky C. Tsai 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SONY COMPUTER 

ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLC 

and SONY NETWORK 

ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL 

LLC. 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 6/2/11 By: _____________________________ 

 U. S. District Court Magistrate Judge 

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