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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1330 Breach of Contract

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STIPULATION AND ORDER RE PLAINTIFF’S DEPOSIT OF FUNDS IN 

FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT IN LIEU OF UNDERTAKING

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Damrell Nelson 

Schrimp Pallios 

Pacher & Silva 

A Professional 

Corporation 

Roger M. Schrimp, State Bar No. 039379 

Kathy L. Monday, State Bar No. 209084 

Maria Fatima Gioletti, State Bar No. 218335 

DAMRELL, NELSON, SCHRIMP, 

PALLIOS, PACHER & SILVA 

1601 I Street, Fifth Floor 

Modesto, CA 95354 

Telephone: (209) 526-3500 

Facsimile: (209) 526-3534 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Starlite Development (China) Ltd. 

UNITED STATE DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA (FRESNO DIVISION) 

STARLITE DEVELOPMENT (CHINA) 

LTD., 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

TEXTRON FINANCIAL 

CORPORATION; MCA FINANCIAL 

GROUP, LTD.; MORRIS C. AARON; 

JOHN F. TURNER & Co., Inc., a California 

corporation; JFTC, INC., a California 

corporation; MARK TURNER; JOHN F. 

TURNER; KATHALEEN A. TURNER and 

DOES 1 through 20, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 1:07-CV-01767-OWW-DLB 

[Originally filed in Stanislaus County 

Superior Court; Case No. 615882] 

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE 

PLAINTIFF’S DEPOSIT OF FUNDS 

IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT IN 

LIEU OF UNDERTAKING 

[Facsimile signature-California Rules of Court, 

Rule 2.305(d)] 

Action Filed: June 1, 2007 

Trial Date: TBA 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between plaintiff Starlite 

Development (China) Ltd. (“Starlite”), and Defendant Textron Financial Corporation 

(“Textron Financial”), through their respective counsel of record as follows: 

1. On or about June 1, 2007, Starlite filed a complaint against defendants John 

F. Turner & Co. Inc., a California corporation; JFTC, Inc., a California corporation; Mark 

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Schrimp Pallios 

Pacher & Silva 

A Professional 

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Turner; John F. Turner; Kathleen A. Turner; Textron Financial Corporation, and Does 1 

through 20, in the Superior Court of California, County of Stanislaus, Case No. 615882 

(hereinafter “State Court Action”). 

2. On or around October 22, 2007, the Honorable Roger M. Beauchesne of the 

Stanislaus County Superior Court ordered Starlite to file an undertaking pursuant to Code 

of Civil Procedure Section 1030 in the State Court Action in the sum of $20,000. A true 

and correct copy of said order entitled, Order (1) Sustaining In Part and Overruling in Part 

Defendant Textron Financial Corporation’s Demurrer to Plaintiff’s Verified Complaint; (2) 

Granting in Part Defendant Textron Financial Corporation’s Motion for Order Requiring 

Plaintiff to File Undertaking for Costs, and (3) Granting in Part Defendant Textron 

Financial Corporation’s Motion to Strike Portions of Plaintiff’s Verified Complaint, is 

attached hereto as Exhibit “A”. 

3. On or around November 27, 2007, plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint 

for filing in the State Court Action for: (1) Breach of Contract; (2) Fraud; (3) Aiding and 

Abetting Fraud (Textron); (4) Aiding and Abetting Fraud (MCA, Aaron); (5) Intentional 

Interference with Economic Advantage; (6) Intentional Interference with Contract; (7) 

Negligent Interference with Contractual and Economic Relationship; and (8) Unjust 

Enrichment-Imposition of Constructive Trust, against defendants Textron Financial 

Corporation; MCA Financial Group, Ltd., Morris C. Aaron; John F. Turner & Co., Inc., a 

California Corporation, JFTC, Inc., a California Corporation; and Does 1 through 20. 

(The First Amended Complaint was later file stamped on December 13, 2007.) 

4. On or around December 5, 2007, Defendants MCA Financial Group, Ltd. 

and Morris C. Aaron filed a notice of removal of the State Court Action to the above 

entitled action in the United States District Court, Eastern Division, thereby automatically 

divesting the superior court of jurisdiction over the matter. 

5. Attached hereto as Exhibit “B” is a copy of the Stipulation and Order Re 

Plaintiff’s Deposit of Funds in Federal District Court in Lieu of Undertaking signed by the 

Honorable Roger M. Beauchesne and filed in the State Court Action on February 1, 2008. 

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6. The parties, by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby 

stipulate that in lieu of filing an undertaking pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure Section 

1030 in the Stanislaus County Superior Court, Starlite will deposit the sum of $20,000 in 

the clerk’s office of the United States District Court, Eastern Division, to secure any award 

of costs and attorney’s fees that may be made in favor of Textron Financial in the aboveentitled action. Said deposit shall be treated as an undertaking and shall be returned to 

Starlite in the event the Court does not order costs and/or fees in favor of Textron. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

DATED: February ____, 2008 DAMRELL, NELSON, SCHRIMP, 

 PALLIOS, PACHER & SILVA 

 BY: _______________________________ 

 KATHY L. MONDAY 

 MARIA FATIMA GIOLETTI 

Attorneys for STARLITE 

DEVELOPMENT 

(China) LTD. 

DATED: February ____, 2008 LEVY, SMALL & LALLAS 

 BY: ________________________________ 

 LEO D. PLOTKIN 

MARK D. HURWITZ 

 Attorneys for TEXTRON FINANCIAL 

 CORPORATION 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: March 27, 2008 

 

/s/ OLIVER W. WANGER 

 JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

 

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