Free Letter - District Court of Delaware - Delaware

Case 1:05-cv-00072-JJF

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May 30, 2007

By E-filing and by Hand The Honorable Joseph J. Farnan, Jr. United States District Court 844 N. King Street Wilmington, DE 19801

Re:

Royal Indemnity Co. v. Pepper Hamilton, et al., C.A. No. 05-165 Stanziale v. Pepper Hamilton, et al., C.A. No. 04-1551 Stanziale v. McGladrey & Pullen LLP, C.A. No. 05-72 MBIA Insurance Corp. v. Royal Indemnity Co., C.A. No. 02-1294

Dear Judge Farnan: We write on behalf of Royal Indemnity Co. ("Royal") in response to the proposed case management order submitted by Pepper Hamilton LLP ("Pepper") in two of the above cases. Royal opposes that proposal for the following reasons, and submits herewith its proposed case management order. Pepper's proposed case management order allows no period for Royal and the Trustee to submit new expert reports in light of the Court's prior ruling striking three expert reports, as Royal and the Trustee requested in emergency papers filed yesterday. Pepper opposes the submission of new expert reports by Royal. The schedule Pepper proposes allows Pepper and the other defendants an additional two weeks to file their own expert reports. Ironically, this additional time would only be necessary to respond to new expert reports from plaintiffs, since Pepper has had sufficient time under the current Court case management order to respond to Royal's other expert reports. By contrast, Royal's proposed case management order submitted herewith allows both Royal and Trustee to file new expert reports by June 15, 2007 in lieu of the stricken expert reports and allows all defendants the same amount of time as the current order to submit their reports (responsive to both the existing expert reports and any new expert reports).

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Hon. Joseph J. Farnan, Jr. May 30, 2007 Page 2

As these cases currently stand, all case management orders in each of the four above cases set forth identical schedules. We would expect, given the high degree of factual and expert overlap among the cases and the coordinated discovery and other proceedings that have occurred to date, that any revised order would apply to all four cases. Respectfully Submitted, /s/Philip Trainer, Jr. Philip Trainer, Jr. (#2788) cc:
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counsel of record on attached service list (with enclosures)

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SERVICE LIST William H. Sudell, Jr., Esquire Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1201 North Market Street Wilmington, DE 19899-1347 David E. Wilks, Esquire Reed Smith LLP 1201 North Market Street, Suite 1500 Wilmington, DE 19801 Michael R. Lastkowski, Esquire Christopher M. Winter, Esquire Duane Morris LLP 1100 North Market Street, Suite 1200 Wilmington, DE 19801 John W. Shaw, Esquire Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP The Brandywine Building 1000 West Street, 17th Floor Wilmington, DE 19899 Karen Lee Turner, Esquire Susan E. Poppiti, Esquire Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC 300 Delaware Avenue, Suite 1210 Wilmington, DE 19801 Charlene D. Davis, Esquire Mary E. Augustine, Esquire The Bayard Firm 222 Delaware Avenue, Suite 900 Wilmington, DE 19899 John H. Eickemeyer, Esquire Jonathan A. Wexler, Esquire Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C. 1633 Broadway, 47th Floor New York, NY 10019 Charles A. Gillman, Esquire David Montone, Esquire David G. Januszewski, Esquire M. Justin Lubeley, Esquire HAND DELIVERY

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Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP 80 Pine Street New York, NY 10005-1702 Elizabeth K. Ainslie, Esquire Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP 1600 Market Street, Suite 3600 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Richard P. Swanson, Esquire Veronica E. Rendon, Esquire Jason M. Butler, Esquire Arnold & Porter LLP 399 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022-4690 Steven M. Farina, Esquire Thomas H.L. Selby Williams & Connolly LLP 725 Twelfth Street, NW. Washington, DC 20005 Andre G. Castaybert, Esquire Ronald Rauchberg, Esquire Steven Obus, Esquire Proskauer Rose LLP 1585 Broadway New York, NY 10036-8299 Michael S. Waters, Esquire Lois H. Goodman, Esquire McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP Three Gateway Center 100 Mulberry Street Newark, NJ 07102-4079 Neil G. Epstein, Esquire Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC 1515 Market Street, 9th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102 Andrew N. Yao 107 Leighton Drive Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 VIA FEDEX

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