Free Motion for Extension of Time - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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SUSAN MARTIN (AZ#014226) DANIEL L. BONNETT (AZ#014127) JENNIFER KROLL (AZ#019859) MARTIN & BONNETT, P.L.L.C. 3300 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1720 Phoenix, Arizona 85012-2517 Telephone: (602) 240-6900 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Attorneys for Plaintiffs IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA Barbara Allen, Richard Dippold, Melvin Jones, Donald McCarty, Richard Scates and Walter G. West, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, vs. Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan, Honeywell Secured Benefit Plan, Plan Administrator of Honeywell Retirement Earnings Plan and Plan Administrator of Honeywell Secured Benefit Plan, Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

No. CV04-0424 PHX ROS

Plaintiffs Motion for an Extension of Time to Respond to Defendants Motion for Reconsideration (First Request)

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Plaintiffs hereby move the Court for an extension of time to file their response to Defendants Motion for Reconsideration. (Doc. 323.) On November 16, 2007, Defendants filed a Motion for Reconsideration based on an August 7, 2007 letter from Eric Solomon, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Tax Policy). (Doc. 323.) On November 19, 2007, the Court ordered Plaintiffs to respond to Defendants motion on or before December 10, 2007. (Doc. 327.)

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Plaintiffs request an extension of time to respond to Defendants motion because the parties have a discovery dispute that impacts Plaintiffs ability to respond to Defendants Motion for Reconsideration. The parties have alerted the Court to the discovery dispute and the parties are preparing and submitting a joint statement, which will be faxed to Chambers in accordance with the Court s Discovery Dispute Instructions no later than the morning of December 7, 2007. In addition, Defendants filed their Motion for Reconsideration after the

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 2 By: s/ Jennifer Kroll Susan Martin Daniel L. Bonnett Jennifer L. Kroll 3300 North Central Avenue, Suite 1720 Phoenix, AZ 85012-2517 (602) 240-6900 MARTIN & BONNETT, P.L.L.C.

parties agreed to a briefing schedule on several other motions, including the filing of a brief on privilege issues on December 4, 2007, one week after Defendants produced a revised privilege log, and the filing of a brief on statute of limitations issues on December 10, 2007. Accordingly, given these facts and other conflicting work deadlines and existing work commitments, Plaintiffs respectfully request an extension of time to file their response to Defendants Motion for Reconsideration as follows: if the Court orders that the discovery Plaintiffs seek that is the subject of the current discovery dispute be produced, that Plaintiffs be given until thirty (30) days after that discovery is produced to file their response to Defendants motion or, if the Court does not so order, until December 21, 2007.
Respectfully submitted this 6th day of December, 2007.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on December 6, 2007, I electronically transmitted the attached document to the Clerk s Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and transmittal of a Notice of Electronic Filing to the Following CM/ECF registrants:

David B. Rosenbaum Dawn L. Dauphine Osborn Maledon, P.A. 2929 North Central Ave., Suite 2100 Phoenix, AZ 85012-2794 Michael Banks Azeez Hayne Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP 1701 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 Howard Shapiro Proskauer Rose LLP 909 Poydras Street, Suite 1100 New Orleans, LA 70112 Amy Covert Proskauer Rose LLP One Newark Center, 18th Floor Newark , NJ 07102-5211 Christopher Landau Eleanor R. Barrett Kirkland & Ellis LLP 655 Fifteenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Attorneys for the Defendants s/J. Kroll

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