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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
ORLANDO DIVISION

FLORIDA ABOLITIONIST and JANE

DOE,
Case No.: 6:17-cv-218-Orl-28TBS
Plaintiffs,

v.

BACKPAGE.COM, LLC,
EVILEMPIRE.COM, BIGCITY.COM,
CARL FERRER, MICHAEL LACEY, and
JAMES LARKIN,

Defendants.
______________________________________/

DEFENDANTS’ NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF OTHER ACTIONS

In accordance with Local Rule 1.04(d), I certify that the instant action:

_X__ IS related to pending or closed civil or criminal case(s) previously filed in this
Court, or any other Federal or State court, or administrative agency as indicated
below:

Closed

M.A. v. Village Voice Media Holdings LLC, 809 F.Supp. 2d 1041 (E.D. Mo. 2011)

Backpage.com, LLC v. McKenna, 881 F.Supp. 2d 1262 (W.D. Wash. 2012)

Backpage.com LLC v. Cooper, 939 F.Supp. 2d 805 (M.D. Tenn. 2013)

J.S., et al. v. Village Voice Media Holdings, L.L.C., et al., No. 12-cv-06031 (W.D. Wash. Dec.
5, 2012)

Backpage.com, LLC v. Hoffman, 2013 WL 4502097 (D.N.J. Aug. 20, 2013), app. dism. No.
13-3850 (3d Cir. May 01, 2014)

Jane Doe No. 1, et al. v. Backpage.com LLC, et al., 104 F.Supp. 3d 149 (D. Mass. 2015), aff’d.
817 F.3d 12 (1st Cir. 2016), cert. den. 137 S.Ct. 622 (2017)

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Backpage.com, LLC v. Lynch, ____ F.Supp. 3d ____, 2016 WL 6208368 (D.D.C. Oct. 24,
2016)

People of the State of California v. Ferrer, et al., No. 16FE019224 (Cal. Super. Sept. 26, 2016)

Pending

J.S., et al. v. Village Voice Media Holdings, L.L.C., et al., No. 12-2-11362-4 (Wash. Super.
Pierce Cnty. July 30, 2012)

O.L. v. Backpage.com, LLC, et al., No. 13-2-13382-8 (Wash. Super. Sept. 26, 2013)

Backpage.com LLC v. Dart, No. 15-cv-06340 (N.D. Ill. July 21, 2015)
127 F.Supp. 3d 919 (N.D. Ill. 2015) (prelim. inj. den.), rev’d. 807 F.3d 229 (7th Cir. 2015)

Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations v. Ferrer, 199 F.Supp. 3d 125 (D.D.C.

2016), app. pending, Case No. 16-5232, consolidated with No. 16-5274 (argued Mar. 3, 2018).

People of the State of California v. Ferrer, et al., No. 16FE024013 (Cal. Super. Dec. 23, 2016)

R.O. v. Medalist Holdings, LLC, et al., No. 17-2-04897-1 (Wash. Super. Pierce Cnty. Jan. 25,
2017)

Jane Doe v. Medalist Holdings, LLC, et al., No. DC-17-00951 (Tex. Dist. Dallas Cnty. Jan.
25, 2017)

Jane Doe v. Medalist Holdings, LLC, et al., MCC-1700068 (Cal. Super. Riverside Cnty. Jan.
25, 2017)

K.R. v. Medalist Holdings, LLC, et al., No. 38-cv-2017-9000041.00 (Ala. Cir. Houston Cnty.
Jan. 25, 2017)

Sojourner Center v. Backpage. com LLC, et al., No. 17-cv-00399 (D. Ariz. Feb. 7, 2017)

____IS NOT related to any pending or closed civil or criminal case filed with this Court, or
any other Federal or State court, or administrative agency.

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I further certify that I will serve a copy of this Notice of Pendency of Other Actions
upon each party no later than fourteen days after appearance of the party.

Lawrence G. Walters
Florida Bar No.: 0776599
Walters Law Group
195 W. Pine Ave.
Longwood, FL 32750-4104
Telephone: (407) 975-9150
Facsimile: (408) 774-6151
Email: Larry@FirstAmendment.com
Email: Paralegal@FirstAmendment.com

Local Counsel for Defendants

Robert Corn-Revere (pro hac vice)

Ronald London (pro hac vice)
Davis, Wright, Tremaine LLP
1919 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20006
Telephone: (202) 973-4200
Facsimile: (202) 973-4499
Email: ronnielondon@dwt.com
Email:  bobcornrevere@dwt.com

Attorneys for Defendants

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the foregoing was electronically filed
through the CM/ECF system on March 20, 2017, which will serve a copy by email on the
following: Karen C. Dyer, Esq., kdyer@bsfllp.com, Boies, Schiller, Flexner, LLP, 121 South
Orange Avenue, Suite 840, Orlando, FL 32801; David Boies, Esq., dboies@bsfllp.com, Boies,
Schiller, Flexner, LLP, 333 Main Street, Armonk, NY 10504; Karen Chesley, Esq.,
kchesley@bsfllp.com, Boies, Schiller, Flexner, LLP, 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
10022. Notice will be provided via email to Joanna Wright, Esq. (jwright@bsfllp.com) and
Alexander Boies, Esq. (aboies@bsfllp.com), Boies, Schiller, Flexner, LLP, 575 Lexington
Avenue, New York, NY 10022, and via U.S. Mail to Penny Venetis, Esq., Legal Momentum,
16 East 34th Street, New York, NY 10016.

_________________________
Lawrence G. Walters

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