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CHRISTOPHER COOKE, CA Bar #142342 STEPHEN S. WU, CA Bar # 205091 COOKE KOBRICK & WU LLP 177 Bovet Road, Suite 600 San Mateo, CA 94402 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Tel: (650) 638-2370 Fax: (650) 341-1395 Attorneys for Plaintiffs
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION MEI-FANG LISA ZHANG, BAY AREA AFFORDABLE HOUSING, LLC, XUEHUAN GAO, YANG-CHUN ZHANG, CAROL JIAN DENG, and HAO LIANG, Plaintiffs, vs. WEI-MAN RAYMOND TSE, RUN PING ZHOU a.k.a. FLORA ZHOU, THERESA WONG, JAMES YU, BILL SHU WAI MA, MOLLY LAU, VICTOR SO, JIAN XIAO, CHRIST INVESTMENT SERVICE INC., CIS SERVICE, INC., PACIFIC BEST GROUP LTD. a.k.a. PACIFIC BEST COMPANY LTD., and SOUTH CHINA INVESTMENT INC., Defendants. ) Case No.: C-07-04946 JSW ) (Related to C-05-02641 JSW) ) ) RETURN OF SERVICE ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )
I, Stephen S. Wu, declare: 1. I am an attorney in the law firm of Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP, 177 Bovet Road,
Suite 600, San Mateo, CA 94402 and counsel for Plaintiffs in this case. 2. On April 16, 2008, the Court ordered that "service of the Summons in this action
on Defendant James Yu shall be accomplished by publication in the San Francisco Chronicle and -1RETURN OF SERVICE/ Case No.: C-07-04946 JSW
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the Sing Tao Daily . . . as the newspapers most likely to give actual notice to Defendant James Yu" and that "publication shall be made once a week for four weeks." 3. A true and correct copy of the Declaration of Publication of San Francisco
Chronicle ("SF Chronicle Declaration") is attached hereto as Exhibit A. In the SF Chronicle Declaration, the San Francisco Chronicle's legal advertisement representative Joel Rodriguez states that publication of the Summons in this case took place on April 26, May 3, May 10, and May 17, 2008. 4. A true and correct copy of the Declaration of Publication of Sing Tao Daily In the Sing Tao Daily
("Sing Tao Daily Declaration") is attached hereto as Exhibit B.
Declaration, Sing Tao Daily Deputy General Manager Florence Tso states that publication of the Summons in this case took place on April 25, May 2, May 9, and May 16, 2008. 5. California Government Code Section 6060 requires that publication of notices be
made in a "newspaper of general circulation." The SF Chronicle Declaration and Sing Tao Daily Declaration state that each of these newspapers is a "newspaper of general circulation" within the meaning of California Government Code Section 6000. 6. Under California Code of Civil Procedure Section 415.50(c), service of a
summons by publication is deemed complete as provided in Section 6064 of the Government Code. Section 6064 of the Government Code provides for publication once a week for fours successive weeks. 7. The SF Chronicle Declaration and Sing Tao Daily Declaration show that
publication has taken place once a week for four consecutive weeks. Accordingly, service of process by publication on James Yu is, as of May 17, 2008, deemed complete. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States and of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated: June 4, 2008 /s/ STEPHEN S. WU
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EXHIBIT A Declaration of Publication Of San Francisco Chronicle
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EXHIBIT B Declaration of Publication Of Sing Tao Daily
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