Free Motion to Withdraw - District Court of Colorado - Colorado

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 03-cv-02435-PSF-PAC LILLIAN F. SANDLE, Plaintiff, v. R. JAMES NICHOLSON, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Defendant.

STIPULATION FOR WITHDRAWAL OF JURY DEMAND ________________________________________________________________________ The parties, through their undersigned counsel, submit the following stipulation pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 38(d) concerning plaintiff's demand for a jury trial. Plaintiff withdraws her jury demand in recognition of the fact that the claims at issue in this action pre-date the effective date of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (November 25, 1991), Pub. L. 102-166, 105 Stat. 1072 (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(a)), which waived the United States government's sovereign immunity to provide for a jury trial in actions filed pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 791. The defendant agrees that no jury trial is permissible as to any claim at issue in this action. With respect to defendant's counterclaim for unjust enrichment, defendant

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acknowledges that it has no right to a jury trial. An unjust enrichment claim is an equitable claim that does not entitle a party to a jury trial. Roberts v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 617 F.2d 460, 465 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 975 (1980); Security and Exchange Commission v. Commonwealth Chemical Securities, Inc., 574 F.2d 90, 95-96 (2d Cir. 1978); Emmpressa Cubana Del Tabaco v. Culbro Corp., 123 F. Supp 2d 203, 206 (S.D.N.Y. 2000); Metal Processing Co., Inc. v. Amoco Oil Co., 173 F.R.D. 244, 247 (E.D.Wis. 1997). DATED this 5th day of October, 2006. Respectfully submitted, TROY A. EID United States Attorney

HOGAN & HARTSON

s/ Dugan R. Bliss Sean R. Gallagher Dugan R. Bliss Eric S. Howard Anne H. Turner 1200 Seventeenth St., Suite 1500 Denver, CO 80202 (303) 899-7300 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Attorneys for Plaintiff

s/Michael C. Johnson Michael C. Johnson Assistant United States Attorneys 1225 Seventeenth Street, Suite 700 Denver, Colorado 80202 (303) 454-0100 [email protected] Attorneys for Defendant

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE (CM/ECF) I hereby certify that on October 5, 2006, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of Court using the ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the following e-mail addresses: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] and I hereby certify that I have mailed or served the document or paper to the following non CM/ECF participant(s) in the manner (mail, hand delivery, etc.) indicated by the nonparticipant's name: None

s/ Michael C. Johnson Assistant U.S. Attorney United States Attorney's Office 1225 Seventeenth, Suite 700 Denver, Colorado 80202