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Parties Involved:
Boston Beer Corporation
Counter Defendant
Donaghy Sales, Inc.
Counter Claimant
Donaghy Sales, LLC
Counter Claimant

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Derek J. Meyer (CA Bar No. 278346)

PROSPECT LAW LLP

10990 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 800

Los Angeles, California 90067

rmeyer@prospectlaw.com

Attorney for Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant

BOSTON BEER CORPORATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BOSTON BEER CORPORATION, a

Massachusetts corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

DONAGHY SALES, INC., a California

corporation;

Defendant.

CASE NO.: 1:23-CV-00674-SKO

STIPULATION REGARDING

SCHEDULING AND EXTENDING TIME

TO RESPOND TO COUNTERCLAIM

AND ORDER

(Doc. 12)

Judge: Hon. Sheila K. Oberto

DONAGHY SALES, LLC, a California limited

liability corporation,

Counter-Plaintiff,

v.

BOSTON BEER CORPORATION, a

Massachusetts corporation

Counter-Defendant.

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STIPULATION

Pursuant to Civil Local Rules 143 and 144, Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant Boston Beer

Corporation (“Boston Beer”) and Defendant Donaghy Sales, Inc./Counter-Plaintiff Donaghy Sales

LLC (“Donaghy”), by and through their respective counsel, enter into this Stipulation with respect to

the following facts:

On May 2, 2023 Plaintiff filed its Complaint against Defendant in this matter. (ECF No. 1.)

On June 2, 2023, Plaintiff served the Complaint upon Defendant. (ECF No. 6.)

On June 21, 2023, the parties filed their stipulation extending Defendant’s time to respond to

the Complaint for twenty-eight days through and including July 18, 2023. (ECF No. 7.)

Thereafter, the parties undertook and successfully concluded a process of agreeing to a

conflict waiver that permits Defendant to be represented by the above-referenced attorneys. In the

meantime, the parties agreed it was appropriate to extend Defendant’s time to respond to the

Complaint for another thirty days, through and including August 17, 2023, which the Court

subsequently ordered. (ECF No. 9.)

Donaghy filed its Answer, Affirmative Defenses and Counterclaim on August 17, 2023. 

(ECF No. 10.) Previously, the Court set a Scheduling Conference for August 24, 2023, and ordered

the parties to submit a joint report in advance of the Scheduling Conference by August 17, 2023. 

(ECF No. 5.). In light of the filing of the above-referenced Answer, Affirmative Defense and

Counterlcaim, the Court adjourned the Scheduling Conference to September 28, 2023. (ECF No 11.)

The parties’ counsel have met and conferred regarding the above-referenced developments. 

In order to allow time for Plaintiff to review and consider Answer, Affirmative Defenses and

Counterclaim, the parties have agreed to request that the Court (1) grant Plaintiff up to and including

September 26, 2023 to file any response(s) to the Answer, Affirmative Counterclaim (including but

not limited to any motions under FRCP 12) in light of an intervening arbitration hearing in The

Hague, Netherlands for which Plaintiff’s counsel is participating in person and will be out of the

country from at least September 6, 2023 through September 15, 2023, and (2) reschedule the

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Scheduling Conference until October 12, 2023 or the soonest after that date that accommodates the

Court’s schedule for the Scheduling Conference.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between the parties and their

respective counsel, for good cause shown, that Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant shall have through and

including September 26, 2023 within which to file any response(s) to the Answer, Affirmative

Defenses and Counterclaim (including but not limited to any motions under FRCP 12) and that,

subject to the Court’s preferences and availability, the Scheduling Conference be October 12, 2023 or

the most convenient date for the Court thereafter, with the joint report due seven days in advance of

the date of the Scheduling Conference.

Dated: September 1, 2023 DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP

By:____________________________________

PATRICIA A. WELCH

Attorneys for Defendant Donaghy Sales, Inc.

Dated: September 1, 2023 PROSPECT LAW LLP

By: /s/ Derek J. Meyer 

DEREK J. MEYER

Attorneys for Plaintiff Boston Beer Corporation

ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ foregoing stipulation, and for good cause shown, it is hereby 

ORDERED that Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant shall have through and including September 26, 2023,

within which to file any response(s) to the Answer, Affirmative Defenses and Counterclaim 

(including but not limited to any motions under FRCP 12). The Mandatory Scheduling Conference 

currently set for September 28, 2023, is CONTINUED to October 12, 2023, at 9:45 AM in 

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Courtroom 7 (SKO) before Magistrate Judge Sheila K. Oberto. The parties shall file their joint 

scheduling report by no later than seven (7) days prior to the Conference.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 6, 2023 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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