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R|CHARD E. MCCARTHY [SBN 106050] [email protected] TANYA M. SCHIERLINC [SBN 206984] tsch i erl i [email protected] SOLOMON WARD SEIDENWURM & SMITH, 401 B Street. Suite 1200 San Diego, California 92101 Telephone: (61 9) 231-0303 Facsimile: (619l n1-4755 Attorneys for Petitioner HANSEN BEVERACE COMPANY

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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HANSEN BEVERACE COMPANY, Delaware corporation, Petit¡oner,

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CASE NO.08-CV-0619 LAB (RBB)

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DECLARATION OF TANYA M, SCHIERTING IN SUPPORT OF HANSEN BEVERACE COMPANY'S OPPOSITION TO THE MOT¡ON TO DISMISS OR STAY

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DSD DISTRIBUTORS, corporatron
Respondent.

a Wisconsin

Time: 11:l5 a.m.

Date: June 9, 2008 Hon. Larry A. Burns

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l, Tanya M. Schierling, declare:

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I am a member of the Bar of the State of California and a partner at the law

firm of Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith, LLP, counsel for Petitioner Hansen Beverage
Company ("Petitioner")
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in this matter.
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make this declaration

of my own

personal

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2.

Attached as Exhibit

are true, correct, and complete copies

of "Plaintiff's

Notice of Motion and Motion For Partial Vacation of Arbitration Award" and "Affidavit of Julie Lewis ln Support of Plaintiff's Motion for Partial Vacation of Arbitration Award" dated April 4, 2008, filed in the Wisconsin Circuit Court, Rock County, Case No. 07-CV-1120 (the
"Wisconsin Court Action"), and served on my office.

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3.

Attached as Exhibit

"2" is a true and correct copy of DSD's "Verified
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Complaint and Request for Declaratory Judgment and lnjunctive Relief" filed )uly 20,
in the Wisconsin Court Action.

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Attached as Exhibit "3" is a true and correct copy of Judge Forbeck's April 30,

2008 letter ruling in the Wisconsin Court Action.
Attached as Exhibit

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and filed under seal is a true and correct copy of a

report entitled "Calculation of Damages to DSD Distributors, lnc. Resulting From Loss of the

to

Distribute Products

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Hansen Beverage Company" ("DSD's Expert Reporl")

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prepared by DSD's expert, lppolito Christon arbitration proceedings.

& Co., and submitted as Exhibit 110 in

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I was present as counsel for Hansen during the arbitration proceedings in this

matter. DSD's expert, Mr. Andrew Christon, testified during arbitration that DSD's
enterprise value deriving from the right to distrlbute Hansen beverage products (including a

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new product, "Java Monster," which Hansen did not appoint DSD to distribute)
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Million.

DSD's Expert Report rec¡tes this figure at page 1, in the table

entitled "Calculation of Damages." Mr. Christon also testified, as the data in his detailed
financial forecasts reflects (DSD' Expert Report, Appendix A), that approximately 50% of the
$1.7 Million enterprise value (or $850,000) was based on his assumption that DSD had the
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right to distfibute "Java Monster." The arbitrator's Final Award determined DSD did not
have the right to distribute "Java Monster."

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the united States of America and

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the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct of my own personal knowledge
and that I executed this Declaration on May 23,2008.

/sl Tan a M. Schierlin TANYA M.SCHIERLINC

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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the DECTARATION OF TANYA M. SCHIERLING lN SUPPORT OF

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HANSEN BEVERAGE COMPANY'S OPPOSITION TO THE MOTION TO DISMISS OR
STAY to be served in the

following manner:

Electronic Mail Notice List
The following are those who are currently on the list to receive e-mail notices for this

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Electronic Mail Notice List
Leila Nourani, Esq. Michael B. McCollum, Esq. Foley & Lardner 555 South Flower Street, Suite 3500 Los Angeles, CA9OO71 Telephone: (213) 972-45OO Facsimile: (21 3) 486-0065 lnou ran [email protected] m [email protected] Attorneys for Defendant DSD Distributors, lnc. Julie A. Lewis Nowlan & Mouat, LLP 100 South Main Street P.O. Box 8100 Janesville, Wl 53 547-B 1 00 Telephone: (608) 755-8100 Facsimile: (608) 755-8110 [email protected] Attorneys for DSD Distributors, lnc.

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