Free Brief in Opposition to Motion - District Court of Colorado - Colorado

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Judge Robert E. Blackburn Civil Case No. 04-CV-00781-REB-PAC (Consolidated with Civil Action 06-CV-02189) SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN, a Colorado Corporation, Plaintiff, v. QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC., et al., Defendants. __________________________________________________________ OPPOSITION OF QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC. AND QWEST CAPITAL FUNDING TO PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE "RESPONSIVE MEMORANDUM" (Docket No. 131) ___________________________________________________________ Qwest Communications International Inc. ("Qwest" or the "Company") and Qwest Capital Funding, Inc. ("QCF") respectfully oppose Plaintiff's request for leave to file a sur-reply (captioned "Responsive Memorandum"). Plaintiff's motion for leave and the accompanying proposed sur-reply continue the Plaintiff's practice of obliging Qwest to spend time and money responding to duplicative filings. A review of Plaintiff's motion demonstrates that the proposed surreply offers nothing new, nor does Plaintiff suggest in its motion that Qwest raised any issues for the first time its reply to which Plaintiff must now respond. Indeed, Plaintiff does nothing more than reassert its earlier arguments.

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In both the motion for leave and the proposed sur-reply, Plaintiff repeatedly mischaracterizes Qwest's positions in this litigation (without any citation to Qwest's briefs) and the law applicable to this matter. To give just one example, Plaintiff states Qwest did "not controvert the position taken by the plaintiff in its original Opposing Memorandum that `The Law of the Case' may require Judge Krieger's position with respect to the effectiveness of the `toll' of the relevant Statute of Limitations to be accepted by Judge Blackburn." (Proposed Sur-reply at 4.) Qwest, of course, devoted two pages of its Reply brief to rejecting that very argument. (Reply at 3-4.) In addition, continuing its pattern of ignoring this Court's rules, Plaintiff offers a sur-reply that exceeds the permitted length for reply briefs, among other deficiencies. See REB Civ. Practice Standard V.B. For the foregoing reasons, this Court should deny Plaintiff's motion to file a "Responsive Memorandum." If the Court grants Plaintiff's motion and accepts the "Responsive Memorandum" for filing, it should also permit Qwest an opportunity to respond on the merits. Plaintiff does not contest such relief. See Mot. for Leave at 3. DATED: May 14, 2007 Respectfully submitted, __/s/ Alfred P. Levitt_______________ Jonathan D. Schiller David R. Boyd Alfred P. Levitt BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.; Suite 800 Washington, DC 20015 Telephone: (202) 237-2727 Facsimile: (202) 237-6131

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Terence C. Gill SHERMAN & HOWARD, L.L.C. 633 Seventeenth Street, Suite 300 Denver, CO 80202 Telephone: (303) 297-2900 Facsimile: (303) 298-0940 Attorneys for Qwest Communications International Inc. & Qwest Capital Funding, Inc.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Judge Robert E. Blackburn CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on this 14th day of May, 2007, a copy of the foregoing OPPOSITION OF QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC. AND QWEST CAPITAL FUNDING TO PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE "RESPONSIVE MEMORANDUM" (Docket No. 131) was electronically filed with the Clerk of the Court using the USDC CM/ECF system, which will send notification of such filing to the following e-mail addresses: Terence C. Gill [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Counsel for Qwest Communications Int. Inc. Counsel for Qwest Communications Int. Inc. Counsel for William L. Eveleth Counsel for Richard L. Weston Counsel for William L. Eveleth Counsel for Plaintiff Counsel for John M. Walker Counsel for Douglas K. Hutchins Counsel for Bryan K. Treadway

Marcy M. Heronimus Karoline E. Jackson Douglas P. Lobel Larry A. Mackey Charles G. Michaels Stephen C. Peters John M. Richilano M. Robert Thornton

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and, I also certify that I have served same by depositing in the U.S. Mail, first-class postage prepaid, addressed to the following: I. Walton Bader Bader & Bader, LLP 50 Main Street; PMB 1029 Suite 1000 White Plains, NY 10606 Counsel for Plaintiff Herbert J. Stern Edward S. Nathan Jeffrey Speiser Joel M. Silverstein Stern & Kilcullen 75 Livingston Avenue Roseland, NJ 07068 Counsel for Joseph P. Nacchio Mark T. Drooks Thomas V. Reichert Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg, A Professional Corporation 1875 Century Park East, 23rd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90067-2561 Counsel for Robin Szeliga James Miller Clifford Chance US LLP 31 West 52nd Street New York, NY 10166 Counsel for Robert Woodruff Robert N. Miller Stephanie E. Dunn Perkins Coie, LLP 1899 Wynkoop St., Ste. 700 Denver, CO 80202 Counsel for James Smith

James Nesland Paul Schwartz Jeff Smith Cooley Godward Kronish LLP 380 Interlocken Crescent, Suite 900 Broomfield, CO 80021-8023 Counsel for Drake Tempest Michael J. Hofman Martin D. Litt Holme Roberts & Owen LLP 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 4100 Denver, CO 80203 Counsel for Philip Anschutz & Craig Slater

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Scott B. Schreiber John A. Freedman Kwame Clement Elissa Preheim Arnold & Porter 555 Twelfth Street, NW Washington, DC 20004-1206 Counsel for Arthur Andersen LLP Ty Cobb Andrew Shoemaker Daniel F. Shea Charles Mitchell Coates Lear Hogan & Hartson, LLP 1200 17th Street, Suite 1500 Denver, CO 80202 Counsel for Stephen Jacobsen & Lewis Wilks Walter Garnsey, Jr. Kelly Haglund Garnsey & Kahn LLC 1441 18th Street, Suite 300 Denver, CO 80202-1255 Counsel for Gregory Casey Forrest W. Lewis Forrest W. Lewis, P.C. 1600 Broadway; #1525 Denver, CO 80202 Counsel for Frank Noyes

David A. Zisser Isaacson, Rosenbaum P.C. 633 17th Street, Suite 2200 Denver, CO 80202 Counsel for Marc Weisberg

Barbara Moses Ashley Rupp Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. 565 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10017 Counsel for Afshin Mohebbi

Richard Jacobson Michael Trager Arnold & Porter LLP 555 Twelfth Street, NW Washington, DC 20004-1206 Counsel for Gregory Casey

/s/ Eileen Gould Eileen Gould

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