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Case 3:03-cv-01014-JBA

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT ________________________________________________ * * * * * vs. * * ARTHUR LOVETERE, CECIL URSPRUNG, * LOUIS J. BACCEI, WORTH LOOMIS, * THEODORE PATLOVICH, STEPHEN J. RAFFAY, * WILLIAM P. ROWLAND, PETER EIO (individually * and in their capacity as members of the Board of * Directors Of Reflexite Corporation) and * REFLEXITE CORPORATION * Defendants * ________________________________________________* H. JONATHAN FRANK, MORGAN FRANK, AND FRANK FAMILY 1996 TRUST Plaintiffs DOCKET NO. 3:03 CV 1014 (JBA)

December 1, 2003

DEFENDANT CECIL URSPRUNG'S MOTION FOR PERMISSION TO FILE TARDY MOTION TO DISMISS

Defendant Cecil Ursprung ("Ursprung") moves fo r permission to file his Motion to Dismiss late. The deadline for filing Defendant Ursprung's Motion to Dismiss was November 26, 2003. The undersigned was on vacation November 25 and 26, 2003 and his firm was closed on November 27 and 28, 2003. The undersigned inadvertently allowed the deadline to pass. Also, Defendant Ursprung did not receive Defendant Reflexite's Motion to Dismiss and accompanying Memorandum of Law until December 1, 2003. Defendant Ursprung intended to join Defendant Reflexite's Motion to Dismiss, assuming the Motion appropriately addressed his concerns about the Plaintiffs' Amended
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Complaint. Defendant Ursprung has, after review, adopted Defendant Reflexite's Motion to Dismiss and accompanying Memorandum of Law. Defendant Ursprung believes his Motion to Dismiss should be accepted by the Court since the delay was inadvertent and since the Plaintiffs will not be prejudiced by the late filing since his Motion to Dismiss adopts Reflexite's Motion to Dismiss. DEFENDANT CECIL URSPRUNG

By____________________________ Edward F. Spinella Fed. Ct. No. ct00102 Reid and Riege, P.C. One Financial Plaza Hartford, CT 06103 Tel. 860-278-1150 Fax: 860-240-1002

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CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that on the 1st day of December, 2003, a copy of the foregoing Motion for Permission to File Tardy Motion to Dismiss was sent by facsimile and by first class mail, postage prepaid, to: Michael Considine, Esq. Patricia M. Canavan, Esq. Day, Berry & Howard LLP One Canterbury Green Stamford, CT 06901 Tel. # (203) 977-7300 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Richard M. Strassberg, Esq. Jeffrey Alan Simes, Esq. Goodwin Procter LLP 599 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel. # (212) 813-8800 Attorneys for Plaintiffs James T. Shearin, Esq. Pullman & Comley, LLC 850 Main Street, P. O. Box 7006 Bridgeport, CT 06601 Tel. # (203) 330-2240 Attorneys for Defendant William P. Rowland Craig A. Raabe, Esq. Jason J. Kuselias, Esq. Robinson & Cole LLP 280 Trumbull Street Hartford, CT 06103-3597 Tel. # (860) 275-8200 Attorneys for Defendant Reflexite Corporation James T. Cowdery, Esquire Cowdery, Ecker & Murphy, LLC 750 Main Street Hartford, CT 06103-2703 Tel. # (860) 278-5555 Attorneys for Defendants Lovetere, Baccei, Loomis, Patlovich, Raffay, and Eio

______________________________ Edward F. Spinella

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