Free Notice of Appeal - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

1 MICHAEL O. SUTTON Texas State Bar No. 19535300 2 Federal Bar No. 416565441 3 STEVEN S. BOYD Texas State Bar No. 24001775 4 Federal Bar No. 22772 NATHAN C. DUNN 5 Texas State Bar No. 24036509 6 LOCKE LIDDELL & SAPP LLP 600 Travis St., Suite 3400 7 Houston, Texas 77002 Telephone: (713) 226-1200 8 Facsimile: (713) 223-3717 9 Attorneys for Plaintiff, LEXCEL SOLUTIONS, INC 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 LEXCEL SOLUTIONS, INC. ("LEXCEL" OR "PLAINTIFF"), hereby appeals to the MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL, INC. and MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL, LLC. both Delaware Corporations Defendants. v. LEXCEL SOLUTIONS, INC., an Arizona Corporation Plaintiffs, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CIVIL ACTION NO. CV 03-1454 PHX-JAT UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIZONA PHOENIX DIVISION

PLAINTIFF'S NOTICE OF APPEAL JURY DEMANDED

27 United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from the final order dismissing this 28 lawsuit entered on September 9, 2005. By appealing this final judgment, Lexcel intends to -1Case 2:03-cv-01454-JAT Document 157 PLAINTIFF'S NOTICE OF APPEAL Filed 10/04/2005 Page 1 of 4

1 appeal the entire case. See United States v. One 1977 Mercedes-Benz, 708 F.2d 444, 451 (9th 2 Cir. 1983) ("An appeal from the final judgment draws into question all prior non-final orders 3 4 5 6 7 limitation, Lexcel further specifies that it appeals from the following orders: 1. The Final Judgment entered on September 9, 2005 (Docket No. 153). 2. The Order granting the Motion for Summary Judgment, denying as moot the and all rulings which produced the judgment."). Out of an abundance of caution, and without

8 Motion for Preliminary Injunction, denying as moot the Motion to Compel, and denying as 9 10 3. The Order denying the Motion in Limine and granting the Motion to Strike the 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -2Case 2:03-cv-01454-JAT Document 157 PLAINTIFF'S NOTICE OF APPEAL Filed 10/04/2005 Page 2 of 4 testimony of Johnette Hassel, entered on September 9, 2005 (Docket No. 151). moot the Motion to Strike, entered on September 9, 2005 (Docket No. 152).

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Dated: October 4, 2005

Respectfully submitted, LOCKE LIDDELL & SAPP LLP

By: s/ Nathan C. Dunn MICHAEL O. SUTTON Texas State Bar No. 19535300 Federal Bar No. 416565441 [email protected] LOCKE LIDDELL & SAPP LLP 600 Travis St., Suite 3400 Houston, Texas 77002 Telephone: (713) 226-1200 Facsimile: (713) 223-3717 Attorney for Plaintiff Lexcel Solutions, Inc.

16 Of Counsel: STEVEN S. BOYD 17 Texas State Bar No. 24001775 Federal Bar No. 22772 18 [email protected] 19 NATHAN C. DUNN Texas State Bar No. 24036509 20 [email protected] LOCKE LIDDELL & SAPP LLP 21 600 Travis St., Suite 3400 Houston, Texas 77002 22 Telephone: (713) 226-1200 23 Facsimile: (713) 223-3717 24 25 26 27 28 -3Case 2:03-cv-01454-JAT Document 157 PLAINTIFF'S NOTICE OF APPEAL Filed 10/04/2005 Page 3 of 4

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

2 Copy of the foregoing was sent via FedEx and through CM/ECF, this 4th day of OCTOBER, 3 2005 to: 4 VIA FEDEX Sid Leach 5 SNELL & WILMER 6 One Arizona Center 400 E. Van Buren 7 Phoenix, AZ 85004-2202 8 VIA FEDEX Thomas Cummings 9 ARMSTRONG TEASDALE LLP 10 One Metropolitan Square, Suite 2600 St Louis, MO 63102-2740 11 ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANTS 12 MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND 13 MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL, LLC 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -4Case 2:03-cv-01454-JAT Document 157 PLAINTIFF'S NOTICE OF APPEAL Filed 10/04/2005 Page 4 of 4 s/ Nathan C. Dunn Nathan C. Dunn