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Parties Involved:
Hanjin Shipping
Defendant
J.P. SAMARTZIS MARITIME ENTERPRISES CO. S.A.
Defendant
David Moton
Plaintiff

Document Text:

BIRNBERG & 

ASSOCIATES

703 MARKET STREET

SUITE 600 

SAN FRANCISCO

CA, 94103 

TEL (415) 398-1040

FAX (415) 398-2001

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BIRNBERG & ASSOCIATES 

CORY A. BIRNBERG (SBN 105468) 

JOSEPH SALAMA (SBN 212225) 

703 Market Street Suite 600 

San Francisco, California 94103 

Telephone Number: (415) 398-1040 

Facsimile Number: (415) 398-2001 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DAVID MOTON 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DAVID MOTON, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

HANJIN SHIPPING; J.P. SAMARTZIS 

MARITIME ENTERPRISES CO. S.A., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. 07-01483-SI 

EX PARTE APPLICATION 

CONTINUING CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

AND [proposed] ORDER 

THEREON

COMES NOW plaintiff DAVID MOTON and hereby moves ex parte to request a 

sixty-day continuance of the case conference. 

APPLICATION

Counsel for plaintiff dismissed former defendant Hanjin Shipping from the case 

based on facts that demonstrate that Hanjin Shipping has no liability in this case. In the 

meantime, counsel for plaintiff named the owner of the vessel, J.P. SAMARTZIS 

MARITIME ENTERPRISES CO. S.A., an entity that resides in Greece. Counsel for 

plaintiff translated the complaint into Greek pursuant to the Hague Convention, and then 

sent it to the Greek Central Authority for service on Defendant J.P. SAMARTZIS 

MARITIME ENTERPRISES CO. S.A. on November 9, 2007. Attached hereto as an exhibit 

EX PARTE APPLICATION AND ORDER CONTINUING CASE CONFERENCE

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BIRNBERG & 

ASSOCIATES

703 MARKET STREET 

SUITE 600 

SAN FRANCISCO 

CA, 94103 

TEL (415) 398-1040 

FAX (415) 398-2001 

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is a true and correct copy of the documents we sent to the Greek Central Authority. 

Counsel for plaintiff are awaiting a certificate of service, as outlined in the Convention. 

 No time frame for service is specified in the Convention. However, Article 15 of 

the Convention provides that alternative methods of service may be used if a Central 

Authority does not respond within six months of a request for service. As the Court is 

aware, FRCP 4(m) exempts service in a foreign country from the normal requirement that a 

summons and complaint be served within 120 days after filing. 

 Accordingly, we are hereby applying for a continuance of the case management 

conference for sixty days. In the event that we do not receive a certificate of service within 

that time, and in the event the case is still not at issue, we will file another ex parte

application.

 BIRNBERG & ASSOCIATES 

Dated: December 7, 2007 By: _/s/ Cory A. Birnberg_______

 Cory A. Birnberg 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ORDER

 Based on the representations made by counsel, the Court hereby orders the case 

management conference set for December 7, 2007, be continued to February 15, 2008 at 

2:00 p.m. 

Dated: December 7, 2007 By: _________________________ 

 Hon. Susan Illston 

 United States District Judge 

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