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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTWESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 
 PAUL D. CEGLIA,Plaintiff,v.MARK ELLIOT ZUCKERBERG andFACEBOOK, INC.Defendants.
PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TODEFENDANTS’ MOTION TOSTAY DISCOVERY PENDING ARULING ON THEIR DISPOSITIVE MOTIONS
1:10-cv-00569-RJA
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TABLE OF CONTENTSI.
 
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
.........................................................................................1
II.
 
FACTS
...............................................................................................................................2
A.
 
Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss Raises Disputed Issues of Fact Outside thePleadings
....................................................................................................................................2
B.
 
The Motion to Dismiss Relies on Conclusions Contradicted by Plaintiff’s Experts
...4
C.
 
The Court Previously Noted that Plaintiff Would Be Entitled to Discovery
...............5
III.
 
ARGUMENT
.....................................................................................................................6
A.
 
Plaintiff Is Entitled to Discovery Necessary to Respond to Defendants’ Motion toDismiss
.......................................................................................................................................6
B.
 
Defendants Have Not Established “Good Cause” For a Stay
.....................................11
C.
 
Defendants’ Laches and Statute of Limitations Arguments Do Not Provide “GoodCause” For a Stay
...................................................................................................................13
IV.
 
CONCLUSION
...............................................................................................................15
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TABLE OF AUTHORITIESCases
 
237 Park Investors LLC v. Royal and Son Alliance
, 03-cv-63024, 2004 WL 385067 (S.D.N.Y.March 1, 2004)............................................................................................................................7
 Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. Hasbro, Inc.
, No. 94-2120, 1996 WL 10127 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 7, 1996)...12
 Anwar v. Fairfield Greenwich Ltd.
, 728 F. Supp. 2d 372 (S.D.N.Y. 2010).................................10
 Burns v. Imagine Films Entertainment, Inc.
, 164 F.R.D. 589 (W.D.N.Y. 1996).........................12
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance v. Chico Scrap Metal, Inc.
,
 
 No. 10-1207, 2011 WL130228 (E.D. Cal. Jan. 14, 2011)..............................................................................................11
Golden Budha Corp. v. Canadian Land Co. of Am
., 931 F.2d 196 (2d Cir. 1991)......................14
 Inland American (LIP) Sub, LLC, v. Lauth
, No. 09-00893, 2010 WL 670546 (S.D. Ind. Feb.19, 2010).................................................................................................................................8, 9
 Janese v. Fay
, 751 F. Supp. 2d 469 (W.D.N.Y. 2010).................................................................13
 Novick v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.
, 764 F. Supp. 2d. 653 (S.D.N.Y. 2011)................................7
 Paymaster Corp. v. American Bankers Ins. Co. of Florida
, 91 F.3d 154, 1996 WL 368753 (9thCir. 1996)....................................................................................................................................7
 Pendergest-Holt v. Cetain Underwriters at Llyod's of London and Arch Specialty Insurance Co.
, No. 09-3712, 2011 WL 3199355 (S.D. Tex. Aug. 11, 2010)...................................................11
 Richards v. North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System
, No. 10-4544, 2011 WL 4407518(E.D.N.Y. Sept. 21, 2011).........................................................................................................14
Simcuski v. Saeli
, 44 N.Y.2d 442 (1978)......................................................................................14
Southern New England Telephone Co. v. Global Naps Inc.
, 624 F.3d 123 (2d Cir. 2010)............7
St. Johns’s Univ. v. Bolton
, 757 F. Supp. 2d 144 (E.D.N.Y. 2010)..............................................15
Steuben Foods, Inc. v. Country Gourmet Foods, LLC,
No. 08-561, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 91219(W.D.N.Y. Sept. 30, 2009).......................................................................................................10
Vargas v. Deltz 
, 901 F. Supp. 1572 (S.D. Fla. 1995)...................................................................11
Rules
 Fed. R. Civ. P. 12........................................................................................................................1, 6Fed. R. Civ. P. 26......................................................................................................................3, 12
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