Free Confirm Arbitration Award - District Court of California - California

Case 3:07-cv-02753-SC

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1 RUBIN, FORTUNATO & HARBISON P.C. MICHAEL J. FORTUNATO (Pa. Bar No. 58917) (Admitted pro hac vice) 2 PATRICIA BAILEY TSIPRAS (Pa. Bar. No. 85677) (Admitted pro hac vice) 3 10 South Leopard Road Paoli, PA 19301 4 Telephone: (610) 408-2000 (610) 854-4301 5 Facsimile: E-mail: [email protected] 6 MENNEMEIER, GLASSMAN & STROUD LLP 7 KENNETH C. MENNEMEIER (SBN 113973) 8 980 9th Street, Suite 1700 Sacramento, CA 95814 9 Telephone: (916) 553-4000 Facsimile: (916) 553-4011 10 E-mail: [email protected] 11 Attorneys for Respondent 12 MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 v. 23 MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & 24 SMITH INCORPORATED, 25 26 27 28 Respondent. ROBERT J. KNIGHT, Petitioner, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CASE NO: CV 07-02753 SC Date: September 7, 2007 Time: 10:00 a.m. MERRILL LYNCH'S NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO CONFIRM ARBITRATION AWARD IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

Merrill Lynch's Notice of Motion and Motion to Confirm Arbitration Award ­ CV 07-02753 SC

Case 3:07-cv-02753-SC

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On September 7, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 1, Respondent Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

2 Fenner & Smith Incorporated ("Merrill Lynch") will move the Court for orders (1) denying the 3 Petition and Application to Vacate Arbitration Award filed by Robert J. Knight; and (2) granting 4 Merrill Lynch's Motion to Confirm the arbitration award rendered on May 18, 2007 by a panel of 5 National Association of Securities Dealers ("NASD") arbitrators in the case of Robert J. Knight v. 6 Merrill Lynch, Patricia Gail Williams, and George Scott Ralston, NASD No. 06-03430 7 ("Award"). 8 This motion is made because no grounds exist to vacate the Award and therefore, under

9 Section 9 of Title 9 of the United States Code, it must be confirmed. This motion is based on this 10 Notice, Merrill Lynch's Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Opposition to Knight's Petition 11 and Application to Vacate Arbitration Award and in Support of Merrill Lynch's Motion to 12 Confirm Arbitration Award, and the accompanying Declaration of Patricia Bailey Tsipras. 1 13 Merrill Lynch respectfully requests that this Court enter an Order denying Petitioner's

14 Petition and Application to Vacate Arbitration Award and granting Merrill Lynch's Motion to 15 Confirm. 16 17 Dated: July 27, 2007 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 All of these pleadings have been filed simultaneously herewith. Because the same 27 Points, Authorities, and Declaration apply to both Merrill Lynch's Opposition to Knight's Petition/Application to Vacate Arbitration Award and Merrill Lynch's Motion to Confirm 28 Arbitration Award, Merrill Lynch relies on the simultaneously-filed pleadings, rather than filing duplicate pleadings, in support of this Motion to Confirm. See Civil L.R. 7-2. -2Merrill Lynch's Notice of Motion and Motion to Confirm Arbitration Award ­ CV 07-02753 SC
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RUBIN, FORTUNATO & HARBISON P.C. By: /s/ Patricia Bailey Tsipras Michael J. Fortunato, Esquire Patricia Bailey Tsipras, Esquire Attorneys for Respondent Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated