Tessera, Inc. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. et al

Filing 1299

ORDER REQUESTING § 455 DECLARATION FROM PROPOSED SPECIAL MASTER PRIOR TO APPOINTMENT. Signed by Judge Claudia Wilken on 12/17/2013. (ndr, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 12/17/2013)

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1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 4 TESSERA, INC., 5 6 7 8 9 United States District Court For the Northern District of California 10 Plaintiff, v. ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., et al., Defendant. ________________________________/ POWERTECH TECHNOLOGY INC., 11 12 No. C 05-4063 CW No. C 10-945 CW Plaintiff, v. 13 TESSERA, INC., 14 Defendant. ________________________________/ 15 16 POWERTECH TECHNOLOGY INC., Plaintiff, 17 18 19 v. TESSERA, INC., Defendant. 20 21 22 ________________________________/ TESSERA, INC., 25 No. C 12-692 CW Plaintiff, 23 24 No. C 11-6121 CW ORDER REQUESTING § 455 DECLARATION FROM PROPOSED SPECIAL MASTER PRIOR TO APPOINTMENT v. MOTOROLA, INC., et al., 26 Defendant. ________________________________/ 27 AND ALL RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS 28 / 1 Having reviewed the parties’ confidential letters regarding 2 their preferences for special master, the Court intends to appoint 3 the Hon. Wayne D. Brazil (Retired) as special master to oversee 4 discovery and other pretrial matters in this case. 5 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 53(b)(3), an order appointing a 6 special master can only be issued after the master has filed an 7 affidavit disclosing whether there is any ground for 8 disqualification under 28 U.S.C. § 455 and, if a ground for 9 disqualification is disclosed, after the parties have consented United States District Court For the Northern District of California 10 11 Pursuant to with the Court's approval to waive the disqualification. Accordingly, the proposed special master is asked to file 12 within seven days of this order an affidavit in the form attached 13 disclosing whether there is any ground for disqualification. 14 15 IT IS SO ORDERED. 16 17 18 Dated: 12/17/2013 CLAUDIA WILKEN United States District Judge 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 1 Having informed myself about my personal and fiduciary 2 financial interests, and having made a reasonable effort to inform 3 myself about the personal financial interests of my spouse and 4 minor children residing in my household, if any, I certify that 5 there are [grounds] [no grounds] for disqualification pursuant to 6 28 U.S.C. § 455. 7 The grounds for disqualification, if any, are as follows: __________________________________________________________________ 9 __________________________________________________________________ 10 United States District Court For the Northern District of California 8 __________________________________________________________________ 11 __________________________________________________________________ 12 __________________________________________________________________ 13 14 15 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct. 16 17 Signed:_______________________________________ Dated: ___________ 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3

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