MOTION FOR LEAVE CASE NO. 2:10-CV-01356-RLH (GWF)

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728LAURENCE F. PULGRAM (CA State Bar No. 115163) (

pro hac vice

)lpulgram@fenwick.com CLIFFORD C. WEBB (CA State Bar No. 260885) (

pro hac vice)

cwebb@fenwick.com FENWICK & WEST LLP555 California Street, 12th FloorSan Francisco, California 94104Telephone: (415) 875-2300Facsimile: (415) 281-1350KURT OPSAHL (CA State Bar No. 191303) (

pro hac vice

)kurt@eff.orgCORYNNE MCSHERRY (CA State Bar No. 221504) (

pro hac vice

)corynne@eff.org ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION454 Shotwell StreetSan Francisco, California 94110Telephone: (415) 436-9333Facsimile: (415) 436-9993CHAD BOWERS (NV State Bar No. 7283)bowers@lawyer.com CHAD A. BOWERS, LTD3202 West Charleston BoulevardLas Vegas, Nevada 89102Telephone: (702) 457-1001Attorneys for Defendant and CounterclaimantDEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND, LLC, andDefendant DAVID ALLEN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTFOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA

RIGHTHAVEN LLC, a Nevada limited liability company,Plaintiff,v.DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND, LLC, a District of Columbia limited-liability company; and DAVID ALLEN,an individual,Defendants.Case No. 10-01356-RLH (GWF)

MOTION FOR LEAVE TOFILE DEFENDANTS’SUPPLEMENTALMEMORANDUMADDRESSING RECENTLYPRODUCED EVIDENCERELATING TO PENDINGMOTIONS AND THESUPPORTINGDECLARATION OFLAURENCE PULGRAM

DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND, LLC, a District of Columbia limited-liability company,Counterclaimant,v.RIGHTHAVEN LLC, a Nevada limited liability company,and STEPHENS MEDIA LLC, a Nevada limited-liabilitycompany,Counterdefendants.

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MOTION FOR LEAVE

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MOTION FOR LEAVE

Defendant and Counterclaimant Democratic Underground, LLC and Defendant DavidAllen (collectively, “Democratic Underground” or “Defendants”) hereby respectfully request thatthe Court permit Defendants to file a Supplemental Memorandum Addressing Recently ProducedEvidence Relating to Pending Motions (“Supplemental Memorandum”) and the SupportingDeclaration of Laurence Pulgram (“Pulgram Decl.”), attached hereto as Exhibits 1 and 2respectively. As fully explained by Defendants’ Supplemental Memorandum, this briefing isnecessary to address belatedly produced information highly relevant to the three currentlypending motions.

See

Dkt. 36 (Righthaven’s Motion to Dismiss); Dkt. 38-39 (Stephens Media’sMotion to Dismiss and Joinder); and Dkt. 45 (Democratic Underground’s Cross Motion forSummary Judgment).Specifically, on February 28, 2011, Cross-Defendant Stephens Media, LLC (“StephensMedia”) produced a copy of .

See

Declaration of Laurence Pulgram (“Pulgram Decl.”), Exhibit Anever before revealed to any Court in this District, on its facepurports to

. While Righthaven has previously represented to the Courtit (and Stephens Media) has heretofore failed to provide.provide substantial evidence relevant to the pending motions,including that:

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MOTION FOR LEAVE

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12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728Defendants request that the Court consider the Supplemental Memorandum and thesupporting Declaration of Laurence Pulgram as they address this new evidence and provide afurther basis upon which to deny the two Motions to Dismiss and to grant summary judgment onthe issue of fair use. Given that this material was only recently and belatedly produced,Defendants could not have addressed it in any of the prior briefing.

See, e.g.

United States v.Maris

, 2011 WL 468554, at *5 n.5 (D. Nev. Feb. 4, 2011) (granting leave to file supplementalmaterials even after the hearing on a motion for summary judgment);

Mitchel v. Holder

, 2010 WL816761, at *1 n.1 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 9, 2010) (granting leave to file supplemental brief in support of motion for summary judgment addressing newly discovered evidence);

Lumsden v. United States

,2010 WL 2232946, at *1 (E.D. N.C. June 3, 2010) (granting leave to submit additional newlydiscovered evidence in support of motion for summary judgment).Dated: March 4, 2011 Respectfully submitted,FENWICK & WEST LLPBy: /s/

Laurence F. Pulgram

LAURENCE F. PULGRAM, ESQAttorneys for Defendant and CounterclaimantDEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND, LLC, andDefendant DAVID ALLEN

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