Case 1:06-cv-00243-CFL
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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS ______________________________________________________________________________ ABINGDON HOUSE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Plaintiff, v. THE UNITED STATES Defendant. ______________________________________________________________________________ JOINT STATUS REPORT Pursuant to the Court's Order of May 31, 2006, the parties respectfully submit the following Joint Status Report to apprise the Court of the status of their efforts to resolve this and numerous closely-related cases through the Court's Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") pilot program. As previously reported, the Section 515 Litigation Settlement Agreement (the "Agreement") was fully executed effective May 21, 2007, following which the parties entered the implementation phase of the settlement process. To this end, a third party appraisal firm has completed site visits for nearly all of the properties in the settlement. The firm has also issued more than five hundred Market Rent Studies as required by the Agreement and has advised the parties that it expects to complete most of the remaining studies by the end of this month. As a result, the parties continue to make progress in reaching final market rent conclusions and calculating damages for each property. As part of that effort, the parties are in the process of exchanging information necessary for the computation of damages for individual properties. The parties have conferred regarding all File No. 06-243 (Judge Charles F. Lettow)
Case 1:06-cv-00243-CFL
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aspects of the settlement on a regular basis throughout the settlement process. The parties have conferred regarding the filing of this document, and counsel for defendant has represented to counsel for plaintiffs that defendant concurs in the contents of this Joint Status Report.
Dated: January 29, 2008 Filed Electronically
Respectfully submitted, s/ Jeff H. Eckland JEFF H. ECKLAND Mark J. Blando, Of Counsel ECKLAND & BLANDO LLP 500 Lumber Exchange 10 South Fifth Street Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 Telephone: (612) 236-0160 Facsimile: (612) 236-0179 Jerry W. Snider, Of Counsel William L. Roberts, Of Counsel FAEGRE & BENSON LLP 2200 Wells Fargo Center Minneapolis, MN 55402 Telephone: (612) 766-7000 Facsimile: (612) 766-1600 Attorneys for Plaintiffs
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