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Parties Involved:
Svetlana Dirina
Plaintiff
Ronald N. Tilley
Defendant
S.W. Bryant
Defendant
Simply-B Botanicals
Defendant
Simply-B Botanicals, Inc.
Defendant
Kim Tilley
Defendant
Kimberly Lynn Tilley
Defendant

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JESSE S. KAPLAN CSB# 103726

5441 Fair Oaks Bl. Ste. C-1

Carmichael, CA 95608

(916) 488-3030

(916) 489-9297 fax

Attorney for Plaintiff

SVETLANA DIRINA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SVETLANA DIRINA, No. 2:06-CV-00303-DFL-DAD

Plaintiff, SECOND

APPLICATION AND 

v. PROPOSED ORDER 

TO EXTEND TIME

SIMPLY-B BOTANICALS, FOR SERVICE

SIMPLY-B BOTANICALS, INC.,

KIM TILLEY aka KIMBERLY LYNN

TILLEY, RONALD N. TILLEY,

S.W. BRYANT, DOES 1 through 25,

Defendants.

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APPLICATION FOR ORDER EXTENDING TIME

TO COMPLETE SERVICE OF PROCESS

Plaintiff SVETLANA DIRINA hereby applies for an order extending time to complete

service of process. This constitutes a second such application. In support thereof, she submits the

following declaration of counsel.

DECLARATION OF JESSE S. KAPLAN

I, Jesse S. Kaplan, declare as follows:

1) I am the attorney for plaintiff, licensed to practice before this court, and I make this

declaration in support of the above request for an order extending time for plaintiff

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to complete service of process;

2) As pointed out previously, the complaint describes a sad story of plaintiff’s

disfigurement because of a product sold by defendants called Black Salve and

plaintiff’s two-year medical odyssey salvaging her face;

3) As previously described, plaintiff came to me in late November 2005, just after her

second surgery, not far in advance of the two-year anniversary of this injury, with

only the SIMPLY-B BOTANICALS name, and a couple of Colorado phone numbers

and a post office box there; I agreed to try to identify defendants and file a complaint;

shortly thereafter, plaintiff left for an extended stay in Russia, her native country,

which stay was expected to last past the filing of the complaint;

4) I retained one Colorado private investigator who identified the other defendants

named in this complaint and confirmed their apparent residency in Colorado, without

providing sufficient information for actual service or much additional information

about them; I thus was able to name defendants and file the complaint; later, plaintiff

returned from Russia, discussed the matter with me, and authorized me to further

pursue it;

5) For reasons still unknown to me, and despite encouraging representations, the first

Colorado investigator never completed the second assignment of locating physical

addresses for the named defendants and I had to locate and retain a second Colorado

investigator to do so; as this was being done, I also provided my usual process server

on June 21 with copies of the summons and complaint and asked him to serve st

defendant Simply-B Botanicals, Inc., if he determined it was a California corporation

(it had already been determined not to be a Colorado corporation); this seemed a

possibility as the first investigator had turned up a number of previous addresses for

two of the three named non-entity defendants in Northern California; subsequently,

the second investigator obtained addresses for the three individuals, and these were

provided to my process server here on July 13 and 20th; th

6) That, it seemed as if, at the least, service would be complete on the individuals, who

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would appear to be the principal defendants, within the time-frame of the previous

extension, based on the foregoing timing;

7) That I recently realized no proofs of service had been received and called my process

server; I was not able to speak with him until after the Labor Day weekend; he

advised that the corporate entity defendant is not a California corporation, either, and

that he had some problems with the physical addresses in Colorado for the two

individual defendants because they are rural locations in the Rocky Mountains;

8) That I explained and emphasized to my process server that delays were already trying

the court’s patience; he stated he believed service could now be effected quickly at

the physical locations in Colorado.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct, and that this was

executed at Carmichael, California on September 6, 2006.

DATED: September 6, 2006 /s/ Jesse S. Kaplan 

JESSE S. KAPLAN

Attorney for Plaintiff

PROPOSED ORDER EXTENDING TIME FOR SERVICE

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING from the application and declaration, the court HEREBY 

EXTENDS TIME FOR SERVICE OF PROCESS for 45 days following the date of this order. NO

FURTHER EXTENSIONS WILL BE GRANTED. 

DATED: 9/12/2006

DAVID F. LEVI

United States District Judge

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