Free Status Report - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

1 Paul M. Levine, Esq. (#007202) 2 3636 North Central Avenue
Suite 1050

McCARTHY HOLTHUS LEVINE

3 Phoenix, Arizona 85012
(602) 230-8726

4 [email protected] 5 Maria Salapska (#019585) 6 LAW OFFICE OF MARIA SALAPSKA, PLLC 3001 E. Camelback Rd. Suite 120 7 Phoenix, Arizona 85016 (480) 626-5597 8 [email protected] 9 Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counterdefendant
Marlyn Nutraceuticals, Inc. and Third Party Defendant Craig Knobloch

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an Arizona corporation, Plaintiff, vs. WILLIAM WONG and JANE DOE WONG, JANE DOE BUEHL, husband and wife; UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIZONA No. CIV 02-1876 PHX-HRH

13 MARLYN NUTRACEUTICALS, INC., 14 15 16

17 husband and wife; PATRICK BUEHL and 18 WORLD NUTRITION, INC., an Arizona
corporation; ABC Corporations I-X; XYZ JANE DOES I-X, husbands and wives, Defendants.

MARLYN NUTRACEUTICAL, INC.S' COMMENTS RE: CASE STATUS

19 Partnerships I-X; and JOHN DOES I-X and 20 respectively, 21

22 __________________________________ 23 WORLD NUTRITION, INC., an Arizona
corporation,

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Third Party Plaintiff/Counterclaimant/ Defendant,

26 vs. 27 MARLYN NUTRACEUTICALS, INC., an 28 KNOBLOCH,
Arizona corporation; and CRAIG

Case 2:02-cv-01876-HRH

Document 349

Filed 03/21/2008

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Plaintiff, Marlyn Nutraceuticals, Inc., by and through its counsel
Counterdefendant/Plaintiff/Third Party Defendant

8 undersigned, submits the following comments regarding the case status and re-trial 9 regarding damages. With respect to the two alternatives proposed by the Court, Marlyn 10 11 requests a jury trial on the damages in connection with its Lanham Act false advertising, 12 unfair competition and trade libel claims. A designation of the record should be

13 submitted by the parties, as the court suggests, first by Marlyn, then World Nutrition, and 14 then Marlyn. With respect to the compensatory and punitive damages, the jury should be 15 instructed that it must award both compensatory and punitive damages. In the 16 17 alternative, the Court should award punitive damages in the minimum amount of 18 $3,000,000, or in the same ratio that the original punitive damages award bears to the 19 compensatory damages awarded by the original jury. It would be grossly unfair and 20 unjust to deny Marlyn the same amount of punitive damages or the same ratio of punitive 21 22 damages in a re-trial, where it is virtually impossible to replicate the factual support for 23 the award of punitive damages made by the first jury. Marlyn will be unfairly prejudiced 24 by simply reading to the new jury portions of the record, without the benefit of seeing the 25 witnesses' demeanor, bias, etc. that undoubtedly impacted the first jury when it rendered 26 27 the verdicts. 28
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RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 21st day of March, 2008. McCARTHY HOLTHUS LEVINE

/s/ Paul M. Levine Paul M. Levine 3636 N. Central Ave., Suite 1050 Phoenix, Arizona 85012 Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counterdefendant and Third Party Defendant Craig Knobloch

9 I hereby certify that on March 21, 2008, I electronically transmitted the attached 10 Document to the Clerk's Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and transmittal 11 Of a Notice of Electronic Filing to the following CM/ECF registrants: 12 Maria Salapska, Esq. 13 Law Office of Maria Salapska, PLLC 3001 E. CAMELBACK RD., SUITE 120 14 Phoenix, Arizona 85016 15 Stephen D. Hoffman, Esq. 16 Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP 2929 N. Central Ave., Suite 1700 17 Phoenix, Arizona 85012 Attorneys for Defendants, Counter18 Claimant and Third Party Plaintiff 19 ___ Pete Boyle, Esq. 20 Jones, Skelton & Hochuli 2901 N. Central, Suite 800 21 Phoenix, Arizona 85012 Attorney for Defendant Patrick Buehl 22 23 24 /s/ Linda S. Ream 25 26 27 28
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