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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE __________________________________________ ) RED SONJA LLC, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No.: ) 06-CV-00270 (SLR) PARADOX ENTERTAINMENT, INC., ) ) PUBLIC VERSION Defendant. ) __________________________________________) MOTION IN LIMINE OF PLAINTIFF RED SONJA LLC, SEEKING TO PRECLUDE DEFENDANT PARADOX ENTERTAINMENT, INC. FROM INTRODUCING CERTAIN EVIDENCE AT TRIAL AND TO DEEM AUTHENTICATED CERTAIN OTHER DOCUMENTS Richard K. Herrmann, #405 MORRIS JAMES LLP 500 Delaware Avenue, 15th Floor P.O. Box 2306 Wilmington, DE 19899-2306 Telephone: (302) 888 6816 Facsimile: (302) 571 1750 [email protected] Thomas J. Curran, Esquire Mark A. Berman, Esquire GANFER & SHORE, LLP 360 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10017 Telephone: (212) 922-9250 Facsimile (212) 922-9335 Attorneys for Plaintiff RED SONJA LLC Original Dated: May 23, 2007 Redacted Version: June 1, 2007

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Background...................................................................................................................... 1 Procedural Posture .......................................................................................................... 3 Argument ......................................................................................................................... 6 Point 1 ­ Defendant Should Be Precluded From Introducing Any Documents Or Testimony Related to its Conan Character As Defendant Steadfastly Refused To Produce Such Documents During Discovery............................................................... 7 Point II ­ Paradox Should Be Precluded From Introducing Any Evidence Related To Its Purported Damages On Its Counterclaims As It Has Failed To Produce Any Damages Evidence During Discovery .....................................................................10 Point III ­ Paradox Should Be Precluded From Introducing Dark Horse's Documents Or Its Testimony At Trial And the Dark Horse Documents To Be Utilized At Trial By Plaintiff Should Be Deemed Authentic Business Records..........................................15 Point IV ­ The Court Should Sanction Paradox for its Failure to Produce Documents And Witnesses By Precluding It from Using the Discovery It Produced On Its Counterclaims At The Trial Of This Matter...........................................18 Point V ­ Paradox Should be Precluded From Testifying About Anything That Its Witnesses Claimed They Could Not Remember At The Depositions..................19 Conclusion.......................................................................................................................22

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