Free Stipulation and Order - District Court of California - California

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1 SARA B. BRODY (Bar No. 130222) CAROL LYNN THOMPSON (Bar No. 148079) 2 MONICA PATEL (Bar No. 220825) 3 DANIEL KAUFMAN (Bar No. 246041) HELLER EHRMAN LLP 4 333 Bush Street 5 San Francisco, CA 94104-2878 Telephone: (415) 772-6000 6 Facsimile: (415) 772-6268 [email protected] 7 [email protected] 8 [email protected] [email protected] 9 Attorneys for Defendants 10 SONIC SOLUTIONS, DAVID C. HABIGER, 11 ROBERT J. DORIS, A. CLAY LEIGHTON, MARY C. SAUER and MARK ELY 12 13 14 15 16 17 CITY OF WESTLAND POLICE AND FIRE 18 RETIREMENT SYSTEM, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, 19 Plaintiff, 20 21 v. Case No.: C 07 5111(MJJ) CLASS ACTION STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER SETTING SCHEDULE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

22 SONIC SOLUTIONS, DAVID C. HABIGER, 23 ROBERT J. DORIS, A. CLAY LEIGHTON, MARY C. SAUER and MARK ELY, 24 Defendants. 25 26 27 28
STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER SETTING SCHEDULE CASE NO.: C 07 5111(MJJ)

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WHEREAS, City of Westland Police and Fire Retirement System (hereafter

2 "plaintiff") filed the complaint in the above-captioned class action on October 4, 2007, 3 against Sonic Solutions and certain of its officers and directors (collectively "defendants"); 4 WHEREAS, defendants' answer(s) or other response(s) to the above-captioned class

5 action complaint are currently due on November 5, 2007; 6 WHEREAS, any plaintiff wishing to be Lead Plaintiff in this action must file a

7 request with the Court to be appointed Lead Plaintiff by December 3, 2007 pursuant to the 8 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995; 9 WHEREAS, at a date on or some time after December 3, 2007 the Court is expected

10 to appoint Lead Plaintiff such that Lead Plaintiff is currently unknown; 11 WHEREAS, plaintiff and defendants, after meeting and conferring, agree that

12 judicial economy will be served by the entry of a schedule for the filing of defendants' 13 answer(s) or other response(s) to the complaint. 14 THEREFORE, IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREED by plaintiff and defendants,

15 through their respective counsel of record, as follows: 16 1. Defendants will not be required to file and serve any answer(s) or other

17 response(s) to the complaint in the above-captioned class action until at least 30 days after 18 Lead Plaintiff has been appointed by the Court. 19 2. Upon the Court's appointment of Lead Plaintiff, defendants intend to meet

20 and confer with Lead Plaintiff about whether Lead Plaintiff will file a consolidated or 21 amended complaint. Should Lead Plaintiff intend to file a consolidated or amended 22 complaint, then it is defendants' position that no answer(s) or response(s) shall be due until 23 after the consolidated or amended complaint is filed. 24 // 25 // 26 // 27 // 28 // 1
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By executing this Stipulation, the parties have not waived and expressly retain

2 all claims, defenses and arguments whether procedural, substantive or otherwise, and are 3 without prejudice to any subsequent motion to stay this action, and this Order is entered 4 without prejudice to the rights of any party to apply for a modification of this Order for 5 good cause. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 /s/ Monica Patel SARA BRODY CAROL LYNN THOMPSON MONICA PATEL DANIEL KAUFMAN Attorneys for Defendants SONIC SOLUTIONS, DAVID C. HABIGER, ROBERT J. DORIS, A. CLAY LEIGHTON, MARY C. SAUER and MARK ELY DATED: October 30, 2007 HELLER EHRMAN LLP IT IS SO STIPULATED.

I, Monica Patel, am the ECF user whose ID and password are being used to file this 17 Stipulation and [Proposed] Order Setting Schedule. In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that Shawn A. Williams of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins 18 LLP has concurred in this filing. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2
STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER SETTING SCHEDULE CASE NO.: C 07 5111(MJJ)

DATED: October 30, 2007

COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP JOHN K. GRANT SHAWN A. WILLIAMS MONIQUE C. WINKLER AELISH M. BAIG 100 Pine Street, Suite 2600 San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: 415/288-4545 415/288-4534 (fax)

/s/ Shawn A. Williams SHAWN A. WILLIAMS

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11/01/07 DATED: ____________________

COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP TRAVIS E. DOWNS III KATHLEEN A. HERKENHOFF BENNY C. GOODMAN III MARY LYNNE CALKINS 655 West Broadway, Suite 1900 San Diego, CA 92101 Telephone: 619/231-1058 619/231-7423 (fax) * * ORDER PURSUANT TO STIPULATION SETTING SCHEDULE, IT IS SO ORDERED. *

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