UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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Sam Sloan,

Plaintiff,

-against-

Hoainhan "Paul" Truong, Zsuzsanna "Susan" Polgar, Joel Channing,
William Goichberg, The United States Chess Federation, Bill Hall,
Herbert Rodney Vaughn, Gregory Alexander, Frank Niro, Grant Perks,
William Brock, Randall Hough, Randy Bauer, Jim Berry, Texas Tech
University and United States of America,

Defendants

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TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

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UPON READING AND FILING the annexed affidavit of Samuel H. Sloan and
upon all the papers and proceedings had herein and upon due
consideration, it is hereby

ORDERED:

1. The Moderators of the United States Chess Federation acting under
the supervision of USCF Executive Director Bill Hall, shall
immediately stop all deletions of postings by USCF Members to the USCF
Forums. They shall attempt to recover and restore all postings already
deleted, removed or pulled and all recovered postings shall be made
visible so that the USCF members can see them.

2. All IP addresses of the postings shall be restored to that the
members can see the evidence showing who actually made these postings.

3. All locked threads shall be unlocked and all postings removed from
visibility shall be made visible to the members again.

4. The USCF election held in July 2007 is suspended or vacated and the
results set aside and the former board members are reinstated on the
board and the new board members are removed from the board until a
hearing and final determination can be had.

5. A hearing on this matter is set to be heard on the _____ day of
October, 2007 at ______ o'clock in Room _______ of the US Courthouse,
at 500 Pearl Street, New York NY.

Service of this order and the papers on which it is based by email on
or before _____ o'clock on the ___ day of October, 2007 shall be
deemed good and sufficient service.



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U. S. D. J.