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Case
No. CGC-12-526393
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Plaintiffs,
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District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division on
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2012. A copy of the said Notice of Removal is attached to this Notice and is served and filed
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PROOF OF SERVICE
I am a citizen of the United States and resident of the State of California. I am employed in San
Francisco County, State of California, in the office of a member of the bar of this Court, at whose
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direction the service was made. I am over the age of eighteen years, and not a party to the within action.
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1BY U.S. MAIL) I am personally and readily familiar with the business practice gfDurie Tangri LLp for collection and processing of correspondence for mailing with_the United Stats Postal Service, and I caused such envelope(s) with postage thereon fully prepaid to be placed in the United States Postal Service at San Francisco, California. 1BY MESSENGER SERVICE) by consigning the document(s) to an authorized courier andlor process server for hand delivery on this date.
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Y FACSIMILE) I am personally and readily familiar with the business practice of burie Tangri llp for collction an processing of document(s) to be transmitted by facsimile ad I caused such documet(s) on this date to be transmitted by facsimile to the off,rces of addressee(s) at the numbers listed below.
1BY OVERNIGHT MAIL) I am personally and readily familiar with the business practice of Durie Tangri LLp for cllection andprocessing of correspondence for.overnight elivery, and I caused such document(s) described herein to be deposited for delivery to a facilityregularly maintained by Federal Express for overnight delivery.
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BY ELECTRONIC SERVICE: By electronically mailing a true and correct copy through Durie Tangri's electronic mail sysiem from jposada@durietangri.com to the email addresses set forth below. (BY PERSONAL DELIVERY) I caused such envelope to be delivered by hand to the offices of each addressee below.
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2 NOTICE TO ADVERSE PARTY OF REMOVAL TO FEDERAL COURT / CASE NO. CGC-12-526393
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CROWELL & MORING LLP Michael Kahn (mkahn@crowell. com) Gregory D. Call (gcall@crowell.com) Theresa A. Buckley (tbuckley@crowell.com) 275 Batlery Street, 23rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94IIt Telephone: 4 1 5.986.2800 Facsimile: 415.986.2827 CROWELL & MORING LLP
Kathleen B alderrama (kbalden ama@cr owell. com) 515 South Flower St., 40th Floor Los Angeles, CA 9007I Telephone: 2t3.622.47 50 Facsimile : 213 .622.269 0
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I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the
foregoing is true and conect. Executed on December 3,2012, at San Francisco, California.
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I. (a) PLAINTIFFS
PeopleBrowsr, lnc., and PeopleBrowsr Pty., Ltd
DEFENDANTS
Twitter, lnc.
Couuty of Residenco of First Listed
(b)
County of Residenco of Fist Listed Plaintiff San Frnnisco (EXCEPT IN U.S. PLAINTTFF CASES)
NOTE:
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Buckey, 275 Battery Street, 23rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111'
Durie Tahjii LLP, Michael H. Page, Joshua H. Lerner, 217 Leidesdorff Street, San Francisco, CA 9411 1, 415-362-6666
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Multidistriot Litigation
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DURIE TANGRI LLP MTCHAEL H. PAGE (SBN 154913) mpage@durietangri, com JOSHUA H. LERNER (SBN 22075s) jlerner@durietangri.com 217 Leidesdorff Street San Francisco, CA 94ll| Telephone: 415-362-6666
Facsimile: 415-236-6300
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NOTTCE OF REMOVAL OF ACTION: UNDER2S U.S.C. $ 1441(A) (FEDERAL QUESTION) CASE NO.
TO THE CLERK OF THE ABOVE-ENTITLED COURT: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Defendant Twitter, Inc. ("Twitter") hereby removes to this
Court the state court action described below.
On November
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California in and for the County of San Francisco entitled PeopleBrowsr, Inc., and
PeopleBrowsr Pty.,Ltd. (collectively "PeopleBrowsr") v. Twitter as case number CGC-12526393, attached hereto as Exhibit A. On Novemb er 27,2012, Defendant was served
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swnmons from the said state court, together with applications for Temporary Restraining Order
and expedited discovery.
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JURISDICTION
This action is a civil action of which this Court has original and exclusive jurisdiction
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Act,
Defendant pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C. Sections 1331 and I44l(a) in that it arises under federal antitrust law.
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INTRADISTRICT ASSIGNMENT
As this action arose in the City and County of San Francisco, assignment to the San
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Francisco Division of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California is propef.
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III.
PEOPLEBROWSR'S COMPLAINT AND TRO PAPERS REVEAL THAT ITS SECTION I72OO CLAIM IS BASED ON FEDERAL ANTITRUST LAW
PeopleBrowsr's Complaint purports to state four causes of action: intentional
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Section 17200 et seq. ("Section 17200"). PeopleBrowsr alleges, inter alia, that Twitter violates
the "unfair acts" prong of Section 17200 by "committing acts of unfair competition that
significantly threaten or harm competition. Twitter is the dominant player in the market for realNOTICE OF REMOVAL OF ACTION:LINDER28 U.S.C. $ 1441(A) (FEDERAL QUES TroN) CASE NO
time, public micro-blog data in the United States . . . . Twitter is using its exclusive control over
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its data to gain control of the Twitter Big Data Analytics market . . . Twitter's actions are
unreasonable and anticompetitive." Compl. T'll 155-158. Those allegations, which form the sole basis for PeopleBrowsr's claims under the "unfair acts" prong of Section 17200, state a
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jurisdiction.
Because PeopleBrowsr's Section 17200 claim arises under federal antitrust law,
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necessarily federal in character, and presents substantial, disputed questions offederal antitrust
law.
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superseded by statute on unrelated grounds, Ethridge v. Harbor House Rest.,861 F.2d 1389 (9th
Cir. 1981); Sparta Surgicl Corp. v. National Ass'n of Sec. Dealers, Inc.,159 F.3d 1209 (9th Cir.
199S). In particular, the artful pleading doctrine prevents a plaintiff from trying to avoid federal
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complaint.
See
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Bd. of Cal. v. Constr. Laborers Vacation Trust r S. Ca1.,463 U.S. 1, 13, 103 S. Ct. 284I,2848, 77 L.d,2d420 (1983); see also Rains v. Criterion Sys,, Inc.,80 F.3d 339 (9th Cir. 1996)
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("Even where, as here, state law creates the cause of action, and no federal law completely
preempts it, federal jurisdiction may still lie
if
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of federal law is a necessary element of one of the well-pleaded state claims."') (citation
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THE ALLEGATIONS IN PEOPLEBRO\rySR'S COMPLAINT ESTABLISH THAT THIS MATTER SHOULD BE REMOVED TO FEDERAL COURT.
district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place where such
action is pending." 28 USC $ 1aa1(a). "The several district courts of the United States are invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of sections I to 7 of ' the Sherman
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15 U.S.C. $ 4.
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CONCLUSION
For the reasons stated above, this matter is properly removed to federal court, w
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exclusive jurisdiction.
DURIE TANG
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DURIE TANGRI LLP MTCHAEL H. PAGE (SBN 1s4913) mpage@durietangri. com JOSHUA H. LERNER (SBN 2207s5) j lerner@durietangri.com 217 Leidesdorff Street San Francisco, CA 94lll Telephone: 415-362'6666 Facsimile: 415-236-6300 Attorneys for Defendant Twitter,Inc.
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Plaintiffs, v Twitter,Inc.
Defendant.
PROOF OF'SERVICE
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PROOF'OF SERVICE I am a citizen of the United States and resident of the State of California. I am employed
in San Francisco County, State of California, in the office of
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whose direction the service was made. I am over the age of eighteen years, and not apafty to the
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On December 3, 2012,I served the following documents in the manner described below:
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(BY OVERNIGHT MAIL) I am personally and readily familiar with the business practice of Durie Tangri LLp for collection and processing of correspondence for overnight delivery, and I caused such document(s) described herein to be deposited for delivery to a facility regularly maintained by Federal Express for ovemight delivery. BY ELECTRONIC SERVICE: By electronically mailing a true and correct copy through Durie Tangri's electronic mail system from jposada@durietangri.com to the email addresses set forth below.
1BY PERSONAL DELIVERY) I caused such envelope to be delivered by hand to the offices of each addressee below.
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CROWELL & MORING LLP .com) Michael Kahn .com) Gregory D Theresa A. rd Floor 275 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA 94ITT
Telephone: 4 1 5.986.2800 Facsimile: 41 5.986.2827
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CROWELL & MOzuNG LLP Kathleen Balderrama (kbaldenama@crowell.com) 515 South Flower St., 40th Floor Los Angeles, CA 9007I
Telephone: 213.622.47 50 Facsimile: 213 .622.2690
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I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the
foregoing is true and correct. Executed on December 3,2012, at San Francisco, California.
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