I am reading the tea leaves but I think Playbev and Playboy have come to an agreement and that is why Grippo Elden asked for a continuance and a motion to modify their complaint. Playboy says to playbev, if you change the complaint to this, we will do that.
Personally I have had to do that in a few of my own law suits.
I am optimistic that 4/16 will be our day!
As far as the auditor, you no longer see circuit ranked in the 30 percentile of suspected accounting practices