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December 14, 2006
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The Honorable Kent A. Jordan
United States District Judge
United States District Court for the
District of Delaware
United States Courthouse
844 North King Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
~ RE: Cantor, et al. v. Perehnan, et al., C.A. No. 97-586

Dear Judge J ordan:
I am authorized to state that this letter is being sent jointly on behalf
of all parties to the above—captioned action. The parties all wish to offer hearty
congratulations on Your Honor's confirmation and impending swearing-in as a judge
on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
The timing of your elevation does, however, place the parties in this
case in a bit of a bind, which is the reason for this letter.
We understand that Your Honor is scheduled to be sworn in tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock. We received word yesterday Hom your secretary that all of
Your Honor's cases will be reassigned. While we understand that the reassignment
may take place as early as the middle of next week, we are concerned that with the
impending holidays, that time may slip. Moreover, the reassignment will certainly
be one of many, and we are therefore concemed that the judge to whom our matter is
reassigned may not be immediately aware that we are all working very hard toward a

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The Honorable Kent A. Jordan ‘
` December 14, 2006
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January 2 trial date. As a result, we are concerned that a very substantial amount of
time and effort will be expended by both sides over the holidays on trial preparation
work that may turn out to have been urmecessary (and will thus need to be duplicated
for a later trial date). As Your Honor can imagine, we particularly do not want to
impose that burden on our support staffs and their families if it can be avoided.
Accordingly, we respectfully request that Your Honor postpone the
· trial date while the matter remains pending before Your Honor, with the trial date to ~
p be set by the successor judge. We believe that this is the only certain way to avoid
the possibility of procedural limbo, and the resulting necessity of much work for all
sides that may prove tmnecessary. A proposed form of order is enclosed.
We thank the Court for its consideration of our request at what must
be a particularly busy time.
Respectfully,
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Edward A. Friedman, Esquire (By fax) i
Clerk of the Court (by eiiling)
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