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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mga20-2008dec20,0,1697910.story
From the Los Angeles Times
MGA appeals ban over the making and selling of Bratz dolls
If the company doesn't get a reprieve by Dec. 31, it will suffer
irreparable harm, the toy maker says in a filing with the Court of
Appeals in San Francisco.
Bloomberg News

December 20, 2008

MGA Entertainment Inc., maker of Bratz dolls, filed an emergency
request Friday with a U.S. appeals court to stay a court order barring
it from making and selling the dolls while it appeals the ruling.

If MGA doesn't get a stay by Dec. 31, the Van Nuys company will suffer
irreparable harm, it said in a redacted filing with the U.S. 9th
Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

MGA's customers want assurances by the end of the year that the dolls
won't be pulled off the shelves in February, Jerome Falk, a lawyer for
MGA, said.

"Because of the nature of this business, decisions are made way in
advance," Falk said Friday in a phone interview. "Creditors,
manufacturers, everybody who does business with them wants assurances."

U.S. District Judge Stephen Larson in Riverside on Dec. 3 granted
Mattel Inc.'s request to stop MGA from making most Bratz dolls. A jury
earlier found that a Mattel designer came up with the Bratz name and
characters and secretly took the idea to MGA. Larson said his order
wouldn't go into effect until after he had ruled on both sides'
post-trial motions. A hearing on those motions is set for Feb. 11.

MGA also filed a request for a stay pending appeal with the district
court, but Larson isn't likely to rule on it before the end of the
year, the company said in Friday's filing.

Lisa Marie Bongiovanni, a spokeswoman for El Segundo-based Mattel,
didn't return a call to her office after business hours.