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Parties Involved:
Affordable Builders of America, Inc.
Counter Defendant
Anzen Legal Group
Defendant
Bill Harris
Defendant
Mark Jenkins
Defendant
Stacy Smith
Defendant
Kevin Strait
Defendant
Paul Thomas
Counter Claimant

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STIPULATION AND ORDER TO AMEND CAPTION 

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Galen M. Gentry, SBN 308873 

HUGHEY GENTRY, LLP 

520 9th Street, Suite 230 

Sacramento, California 95814 

Telephone: 916.758.2100 

Facsimile: 916.758.2200 

ggentry@hugheygentry.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counter-Defendant 

Affordable Builders of America, Inc. f/k/a ABOA, LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ABOA, LLC, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

PAUL THOMAS, KEVIN M. STRAIT, 

ESQ., ANZEN LEGAL GROUP, MARK 

JENKINS, STACY SMITH, AND BILL 

HARRIS, 

 Defendants. 

_________________________________________ 

PAUL THOMAS, 

Counterclaimant, 

v. 

ABOA, LLC, 

Counter-Defendant. 

Case No. 2:22-CV-01381-KJM-DB 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO AMEND 

CAPTION 

Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant ABOA, LLC (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant/Counterclaimant Paul 

Thomas (“Defendant”) hereby stipulate to an amendment of the caption of the above-entitled matter to 

reflect the entity conversion of Plaintiff from an Arizona limited liability company named ABOA, LLC 

to an Arizona corporation named Affordable Builders of America, Inc. 

WHEREAS, on April 16, 2019, Plaintiff filed its Articles of Organization with the Arizona 

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Corporations Commission; 

WHEREAS, on August 4, 2022, Plaintiff filed its Complaint against Defendant, thereby 

initiating the instant proceeding (Docket No. 1); 

WHEREAS, on August 12, 2022, Plaintiff filed its First Amended Complaint against Defendant, 

among others (Docket No. 6); 

WHEREAS, on September 2, 2022, Defendant filed its Answer and Counterclaim against 

Plaintiff (Docket No. 9); 

WHEREAS, on September 2, 2022, defendants Anzen Legal Group and Kevin Strait filed a 

motion to dismiss the First Amended Complaint (Docket No. 10), which was later granted in its entirety 

on December 15, 2022 (Docket No. 59); 

WHEREAS, on September 7, 2022, Plaintiff filed its Rule 41 Dismissal of All Claims against 

defendants Mark Jenkins, Stacy Smith and William Harris (Docket No. 13); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendant are the only remaining parties to this proceeding at this 

time; 

WHEREAS, on September 7, 2022, Plaintiff filed Articles of Incorporation with the Arizona 

Corporations Commission thereby incorporating the entity named Affordable Builders of America, Inc. 

as an Arizona corporation; 

WHEREAS, on September 7, 2022, Plaintiff filed a Statement of Conversion with the Arizona 

Corporation Commission to convert from an Arizona limited liability company named ABOA, LLC to 

an Arizona corporation named Affordable Builders of America, Inc.; 

WHEREAS, in its Amended Order entered on December 16, 2022 (Docket No. 16), the Court 

took judicial notice of those certain Arizona Corporations Commission records reflecting Plaintiff’s 

conversion from an Arizona limited liability named ABOA, LLC to an Arizona corporation named 

Affordable Builders of America, Inc.; 

WHEREAS, the parties agree that complete diversity of citizenship among the parties to this 

proceeding shall not be affected by Plaintiff’s conversion from an Arizona limited liability company to 

an Arizona corporation and the Court shall continue to have the subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate 

this proceeding under 28 U.S.C §1332; and 

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WHEREAS, the parties agree that it is necessary and appropriate that the caption in this case be 

amended to correctly reflect that Plaintiff has been converted from an Arizona limited liability company 

named ABOA, LLC to an Arizona corporation named Affordable Builders of America, Inc. 

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereby stipulate and agree that Plaintiff’s name as it appears in 

the caption in this matter should be corrected to state Plaintiff’s correct legal name: Affordable Builders 

of America, Inc. 

 HUGHEY GENTRY, LLP 

Date: February 10, 2023 /s/ Galen M. Gentry 

 Galen M. Gentry 

 Attorney for Plaintiff and Counter-Defendant 

 SUTTERVILLE LAW GROUP 

Date: February 10, 2023 /s/ Karl A. Schweikert ____ 

 Karl A. Schweikert 

 Attorney for Defendant and Counterclaimant 

 

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ORDER UPON STIPULATION: 

In accordance with the parties’ stipulation to amend the caption of the above-entitled matter to 

reflect the entity conversion and name change of plaintiff from ABOA, LLC to Affordable Builders of 

America, Inc. and good cause appearing, the court hereby orders that plaintiff shall be renamed 

Affordable Builders of America, Inc. in the caption of this matter. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: February 14, 2023. 

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