Case 1:05-cv-00656-CFL
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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS ______________________________________________________________________________ Chamberlain River Buttes II, Plaintiff, v. THE UNITED STATES Defendant. ______________________________________________________________________________ JOINT STATUS REPORT Pursuant to the Court's Order of November 9, 2005, 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. The parties continue to expect that process to be completed by the first quarter of 2008 in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. To this end, a third party appraisal firm has completed site visits for nearly all of the properties in the settlement. The appraisal firm has also issued hundreds of the Market Rent Studies required by the Agreement and expects to complete all of the studies by the end of January 2008. As a result, the process of calculating damages for each property in the settlement is underway. In addition, the parties have conferred regarding all aspects of the settlement on a regular basis throughout the settlement process. File No. 05-656 (Judge Charles F. Lettow)
Case 1:05-cv-00656-CFL
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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 7, 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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