Free Motion for Leave to File - District Court of California - California

Case 3:08-cv-00202-H-NLS

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B URKE , W ILLIAMS & S ORENS EN , LLP
ATTO RNEY S AT LAW LOS A NG EL ES

Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP Stephen H. Galton (SBN 046732) [email protected] Keiko J. Kojima (SBN 206595) [email protected] 444 South Flower Street, Suite 2400 Los Angeles, CA 90071-2953 Telephone: 213.236.0600 Facsimile: 213.236.2700 Attorneys for Defendants Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company and U.S. Bancorp Long Term Disability Plan UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA BRUCE TALLEY, Plaintiff, v. PROVIDENT LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY; U.S. BANCORP LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN, Defendants. Case No. 08-CV-0202-H-NLS DECLARATION OF STEPHEN H. GALTON IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE COUNTERCLAIM [Filed concurrently with: Notice of Motion and Motion; Memorandum of Points and Authorities; Proposed Counterclaim; Proposed Order] Date: September 2, 2008 Time: 10:30 a.m. Ctrm: 13

I, Stephen H. Galton, declare as follows:

I am an attorney at law, licensed to practice before all the Courts in the State of California, and before this Honorable Court. I am of counsel with Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP, attorneys of record for Defendants. I have personal and first-hand knowledge of the facts set forth in this declaration and, if called upon as a witness, I could and would testify competently to them. /// ///
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Case 3:08-cv-00202-H-NLS

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Attached hereto as Exhibit "A" is Defendants' [Proposed]

Counterclaim.

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Attached hereto as Exhibit "B" are true copies of relevant pages from

the long-term disability claim file of Plaintiff Bruce Talley cited in Defendants' motion for leave to file a counterclaim. (Other pages from the claim file which may contain possible confidential medical information can be made available to the Court upon request.)

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on July 30, 2008, at Los Angeles, California. /s/ Stephen H. Galton Stephen H. Galton

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