United States Small Business Administration v. Rocket Ventures II, L.P. et al

Filing 164

ORDER GRANTING AS MODIFIED 163 STIPULATION to Continue Pretrial Conference and Trial Dates. Bench Trial set for 6/9/2014 08:00 AM before Hon. Jeffrey S. White. Pretrial Conference set for 5/12/2014 02:00 PM in Courtroom 11, 19th Floor, San Francisco before Hon. Jeffrey S. White.. Signed by Judge JEFFREY S. WHITE on 9/24/13. (jjoS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/24/2013)

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T. Scott Tate (Bar No. 118427)
Gregory C. Nuti (Bar No. 151754)
Melissa S. Lor (Bar No. 245515)
SCHNADER HARRISON SEGAL & LEWIS LLP
One Montgomery Street, Suite 2200
San Francisco, CA 94104-5501
E-mail:[e-mail]
E-mail:[e-mail]
E-mail:[e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 415-364-6785
Arlene M. Embrey (Fl Bar No. 125539)
Trial Attorney, Office of General Counsel
U.S. Small Business Administration
409 3rd Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20416
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone [phone]
Facsimile (202) 481- 0324
Attorneys for Plaintiff United States Small Business
Administration in its capacity as Receiver for Rocket
Ventures II SBIC, L.P.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

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United States Small Business Administration in
its capacity as Receiver for Rocket Ventures II
SBIC, L.P.,

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Plaintiff,

Case No.: CV-10-4425
STIPULATION TO CONTINUE
PRETRIAL CONFERENCE AND
TRIAL DATES

vs.

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Rocket Ventures II, L.P., a California limited
partnership; Rocket Ventures II CEO Fund, L.P.,
a California limited partnership; Rocket
Ventures SBIC Partners, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company; Cordusio Societa
Fiduciaria Per Azioni Lozia Federico; Kenneth
W.& Melissa Baldwin; Paul Cantwell; Peter
Ayrton Cheese; Yves Derville; Richard S.
Cuccioli; Alistair Anderson Donald; Philippe
Gire; Jean-Claude Guez; Joseph Hawes &
Chrisopher Eyden; Alan John Healey; Craig
Foster Heimark; David E. Kropp; Gregory

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Charles Meekings; Michele Liberato;
Fred Cucchi; ValorLife; Alberto Gandini; Rijete
Pty. Ltd.; Christopher Stainton; Tyna
Development; Thomas Tynan; Patrice Vinet;
Hahei Limited; Michel Saunier; Michel
Roujansky; Nigel Backwith; Justine Lumb;
Andrew Middleton; Ajmair Singh Bhullar;
Estate of Grant A. Dove; Luca Casiraghi; David
Mather,
Defendants.

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Plaintiff United States Small Business Administration in its capacity as Receiver for

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Rocket Ventures II, L.P. (“Plaintiff”) and the entity defendants, Rocket Ventures II L.P., Rocket

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Ventures II CEO Fund, L.P., and Rocket Ventures SBIC Partners, LLC (collectively, the “Entity

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Defendants” and together with the Plaintiff, the “Parties”), by and through their respective

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counsel of record, hereby stipulate and agree as follows:

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On September 10, 2013, this Court entered an “Order (1) Adopting Report and

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Recommendation on Plaintiff’s Motions for Default Judgment, (2) Requiring Status Report, and

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(3) Continuing Dates [Doc. No. 161], ordering, among other things, that the pretrial conference

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and trial in this action are continued to November 12, 2013 and December 9, 2013, respectively.
2.

As the Parties have been in active communication to resolve the matter without

further litigation, the Parties agree that a pretrial conference and trial before the end of this year
would not be judicious. Recently, the Plaintiff requested to review certain documents from the
Entity Defendants, who have been working cooperatively with the Plaintiff.

The Entity

Defendants are currently gathering such documents and will be producing them to the Plaintiff
shortly.
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Additionally, due to unexpected circumstances regarding the medical condition of

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lead counsel for the Entity Defendants, the parties believe it would be most prudent to defer the

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pretrial conference and trial dates for at least six (6) months from the current dates set to allow

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time to transition to new counsel for the Entity Defendants, should this case not be resolved

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before that time. The declaration from Ann M. Mooney, colleague to lead counsel for the Entity

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Defendants, is concurrently filed herewith.

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THEREFORE, UPON APPROVAL BY THE COURT, it is hereby stipulated by and
between the Parties as follows:

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(1) that the pretrial conference set for November 12, 2013 shall be continued to May 13,

2014, at 1:30 p.m..; and
(2) that the bench trial set for December 9, 2013 shall be continued to June 9, 2014, at
8:00 a.m.
Dated: September 16, 2013

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SCHNADER HARRISON SEGAL & LEWIS LLP

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By: /s/ Melissa S. Lor
T. Scott Tate
Melissa S. Lor
Attorneys for Plaintiff
United States Small Business
Administration in Its Capacity as Receiver
for Rocket Ventures II SBIC, L.P.

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Dated: September 16, 2013

By: /s/ Abby Pringle
Gordon C. Atkinson
Abby Pringle
Counsel for Rocket Ventures SBIC
Partners, LLC; Rocket Ventures II CEO
Fund, L.P.; and Rocket Ventures II, L.P.

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Cooley LLP

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: AS MODIFIED ABOVE, IT IS SO
ORDERED.

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Dated: September 24, 2013

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Honorable Judge Jeffrey S. White
United States District Court Judge

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