Free Other Notice - 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

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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 Notice of Supplemental Citation of Authority Regarding Defendants Cross-Motion to Serve Questionnaires on Class Members

Plaintiffs submit this notice of supplemental citation of authority with respect to Defendants cross-motion to serve questionnaires on class members. (Doc. 264-65.)

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On February 6, 2007, after Plaintiffs filed their reply opposing Defendants cross-

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motion to serve questionnaires on all class members, (Doc. 272), the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Dukes v. Wal Mart, Inc., 474 F.3d 1214, 1238 &1241-42 (9th Cir. 2007), rejecting Wal Mart s arguments that class certification deprived it of its ability to assert defenses and that due process required individualized hearings. Plaintiffs call this case to the Court s attention because Defendants continue to argue that they have a due process right to the requested questionnaires, (Doc. 272, p. 15), that in the absence of such discovery, they would

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have a due process right to call every class member to testify regarding his or her knowledge at trial, (id., p. 7), and that Plaintiffs apparent suggestion of a two-phased approach ...would abridge Defendants due process rights by preventing Defendants from presenting their defenses... (Id., p. 8.) Respectfully submitted this 28th day of February, 2007.

MARTIN & BONNETT, P.L.L.C. By: s/Susan Martin Susan Martin Daniel L. Bonnett Jennifer L. Kroll 3300 North Central Avenue Suite 1720 Phoenix, AZ 85012-2517 Attorneys for Plaintiffs

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on February 28, 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 William Delaney John G. Ferreira Azeez Hayne Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP 1701 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 Amy Covert Proskauer Rose LLP th One Newark Center, 18 Floor Newark , NJ 07102-5211 Howard Shapiro Proskauer Rose, LLP 909 Poydras St., Suite 1100 New Orleans, LA 70112 Attorneys for Defendants

s/ T. Mahabir

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