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Parties Involved:
Jerome Gilels
Defendant
Michael Righetti
Plaintiff
TeleQuery.Net, Inc.
Defendant

Document Text:

1 CHARLES A. JONES ESQ. {SBN 224915} 

KELLY MCINERNEY ESQ. {SBN 200017} 

2 JONES LAW FIRM 

3 9585 Prototype Court, Suite B 

Reno, Nevada 89521 

4 Telephone: (775) 853-6440 

5 Facsimile: (775) 853-6445 

cai@cjoneslawfirm.com 

6 kelly@cjoneslawfirm.com 

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Attorneys for Plaintiff, individually, and on behalf of others similarly situated 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

12 MICHAEL RIGHETTI, on behalf of 

herself and all similarly situated persons, 

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Plaintiff, 

17 TeleQuery.Net, Inc. and Jerome Gilels 

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Defendants 

Case No.: 3:15-cv-02243-CRB 

Dept. No. 6 

PLAINTIFF'S CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

STATEMENT AND REQUEST FOR 

A CONTINUANCE OF CURRENT 

CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE 

Date: August 21, 2015 

Time: 8:30a.m. 

22 Plaintiff, MICHAEL RIGHETTI, by and through his counsel of record, hereby 

23 submits the following Case Management Conference Statement and request for a 

24 Continuance ofthe Case Management Conference currently set for August 21, 2015. 

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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY 

1. On May 19, 2015, Plaintiff filed his initial Complaint in this action 

27 alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") 47 U.S.C. 

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PLAINTIFF'S CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE STATEMENT 

and ORDER

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1 §227. See, Docket Number ("DN") 1. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant violated the 

2 TCP A by sending him a text message to his cellular phone without his express consent 

3 to do so. The making of such spam text messages to cellular telephones without the 

4 recipients' consent violates 47 U.S.C. § 227(b)(1)(A)(iii). This case is filed as a class 

5 action on behalf of the following proposed class: 

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All persons in the United States or its territories who, within the last four 

years, received a text message on their cellular phone, which was made by or 

caused to be made by Defendants, using an automatic telephone dialing 

system. 

10 Pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 227(b)(3), Plaintiff seeks statutory damages on behalf o 

11 himself and the proposed class in the amount of $500 in statutory damages for eac 

12 violation of the TCPA. In addition, if the court finds that the Defendants willfully o 

13 knowingly violated the TCPA, the Court may, in its discretion, increase the amount ofth 

14 award to an amount equal to not more than 3 times the amount available under 47 U.S.C. 

15 §227(b)(3) 

16 Following the filing of the initial Complaint, Plaintiff attempted to serve th 

17 summons and Complaint on the resident agent of Defendant on 11 separate occasions. 

18 See, Exhibit 1. To date, Plaintiff has been unable to serve Defendant with the Complain 

19 and Summons. 

20 After conducting additional research and investigation into the allegations raised i 

21 the Complaint, on August 10, 2015, Plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint adding an 

22 additional Defendant, Jerome Giles. Through additional investigation, Plaintiff was abl 

23 to determine that the Defendant, TeleQuery.Net, Inc., is a Delaware Corporation. As 

24 result, Plaintiff is in the process of serving a copy of the Amended Complaint an 

25 Summons on Defendant's resident agent on file with the Delaware Secretary of State. 

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2. REQUEST TO CONTINUE CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

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PLAINTIFF'S CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE STATEMENT 

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1 Due to the fact that a First Amended Complaint was recently filed in this action 

2 Plaintiff has been unable to serve either of the Defendants as of this date, and n 

3 Defendant has made an appearance in this action, Plaintiff respectfully requests that th 

4 Case Management Conference currently set for August 21, 2015, be continued unti 

5 October 16, 2015. This will allow Plaintiff sufficient time to effectuate service of th 

6 First Amended Complaint and also allow the Defendants time to enter an appearance i 

7 this action. A Continuance is also requested in order to allow the parties sufficient time t 

8 meaningfully meet and confer and prepare a joint Case Management Conferenc 

9 Statement. 

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11 Dated: August14, 2015 

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Respectfully Submitted, 

JONES LAW FIRM 

sf Charles A. Jones 

Charles A. Jones, Esq. 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

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PLAINTIFF'S CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE STATEMENT 

Signed: 8/17/2015

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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