Free Motion for Leave - 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.

QWEST'S UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED PAGE LIMIT FOR MOTION OF QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC. AND QWEST CAPITAL FUNDING TO DISMISS CLAIMS FILED IN SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN v. ARTHUR ANDERSEN & COMPANY, et al.

Qwest Communications International Inc. and Qwest Capital Funding (collectively "Qwest") request leave to file a Motion to Dismiss that exceeds the 15-page limit set forth in the Court's Practice Standards (REB Civ. Practice Standard V.A.1.). This relief is appropriate for the following reasons: 1. Plaintiff Shriners Hospitals For Children ("SHC") filed a 127-page

complaint. In order to fully and adequately respond to the complaint--in terms of both the complexity and abundance of issues--Qwest needs more than the 15 pages typically allowed. Qwest has endeavored to keep its motion brief and requests a total of 22 pages to address the allegations in Plaintiff's complaint.

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2. complaint. 3.

Qwest's motion is a reasonable length, given the length of SHC'S

Undersigned counsel has conferred with counsel for the plaintiff, and

pursuant to D.C.Colo.L.R. 7.1., SHC does not oppose this motion. 4. Attached to this filing is a proposed Order granting Qwest's Motion,

pursuant to L. Civ. R. 7.1(F). WHEREFORE, Qwest respectfully requests that its Motion to Dismiss be accepted for filing. DATED: January 16, 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 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 16th day of January, 2007, a copy of the foregoing UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED PAGE LIMIT 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 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/ Jed Donaldson Jed Donaldson

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