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1 Stephen M. Rummage, pro hac vice Jonathan M. Lloyd, pro hac vice 2 Sam N. Dawood (Cal. Bar No. 178862) DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP 3 505 Montgomery Street, Suite 800 4 San Francisco, California 94111-6533 Telephone: (415) 276-6500 5 Facsimile: (415) 276-6599 Email: [email protected] 6 [email protected] 7 Attorneys for Defendant Washington Mutual Bank 8 9 10 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) WASHINGTON MUTUAL, INC., a Washington ) corporation; WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, ) FA (aka WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK); ) FIRST AMERICAN EAPPRAISEIT, a Delaware) corporation; and LENDER S SERVICE, INC., ) ) Defendants. ) ) )

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Case No. 5:08-cv-00868 (RMW) CLASS ACTION DEFENDANT WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK S REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE IN SUPPORT OF REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFFS FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Date: Friday, September 19, 2008 Time: 9:00 a.m. Department: SJ, Courtroom 6, 4th Floor

Defendant Washington Mutual Bank ( WMB ) hereby requests that this Court take judicial notice of the following facts and documents pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 201: On January 15, 2008, the United States District Court for the District of

Massachusetts issued a Memorandum and Order of Dismissal in Yeomalakis v. Wash. Mut. Bank, No. 07-CV-11365-NG, dismissing plaintiff s claims against WMB on the grounds that HOLA and its implementing regulations preempted those claims. Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of the Memorandum and Order of Dismissal.

WMB S REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE IN SUPPORT OF REPLY ON MOTION TO DISMISS Case No. 5:08-cv-00868 (RMW)

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The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 and its

2 implementing regulations recognize the Appraisal Foundation s Uniform Standards for 3 Professional Appraisal Practice ( USPAP ) as the generally accepted appraisal standards 4 applicable to appraisals that federal savings associations obtain in connection with federally 5 related transactions. The Appraisal Foundation s website contains the full text of the 2008-2009 6 USPAP at http://commerce.appraisalfoundation.org/html/USPAP2008/index.htm. Attached hereto 7 as Exhibit B is a true and correct copy of Statement on Appraisal Standards No. 9, a part of 8 USPAP. 9 10 11 Respectfully submitted this 1st day of August, 2008. DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP By /s/ Stephen M. Rummage Stephen M. Rummage, pro hac vice Jonathan M. Lloyd, pro hac vice Sam N. Dawood (Cal. Bar No. 178862) Attorneys for Defendant Washington Mutual Bank

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on August 1, 2008, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the following: Robert Ira Spiro - [email protected] Janet Lindner Spielberg - [email protected] Joseph N. Kravec, Jr. - [email protected] Michael David Braun - [email protected] James Mark Moore - [email protected] Jeffrey D. Rotenberg - [email protected] Laura Jean Fowler - [email protected] Patrick J. Smith - [email protected] Richard F. Hans - [email protected] Christopher J Clark - [email protected] Kevin C Wallace - [email protected] Kris Hue Chau Man - [email protected] Margaret Anne Keane - [email protected] Angela M. Papalaskaris - [email protected] and I hereby certify that I have mailed by United States Postal Service the document to the following non CM/ECF participants: Kerry Ford Cunningham THACHER PROFFITT & WOOD LLP Two World Financial Center New York, NY 10281 DATED this 1st day of August, 2008. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Attorneys for Def. Washington Mutual Bank By /s/ Stephen M. Rummage Stephen M. Rummage, pro hac vice WSBA #11168 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2200 Seattle, Washington 98101-3045 Telephone: (206) 757-8136 Fax: (206) 757-7700 E-mail: [email protected]

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