Free Supplement - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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Dan W. Goldfine (#018788) Adam Lang (#022545) SNELL & WILMER L.L.P. One Arizona Center 400 East Van Buren Street Phoenix, AZ 85004-2202 Telephone: (602) 382-6000 Facsimile: (602) 382-6070 [email protected] [email protected] Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Counterdefendants and Third Party Defendants and

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Grant Woods, Esq. (#006106) GRANT WOODS, P.C. 1726 North Seventh Street Phoenix, Arizona 85006 Telephone: (602) 258-2599 Facsimile: (602) 258-5070 [email protected] Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Counterdefendants and Third Party Defendants

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA Meritage Homes Corporation, a Maryland Corporation, formerly d/b/a Meritage Corporation, Case No. CV-04-0384-PHX-ROS Hancock-MTH Builders, Inc., an Arizona corporation, Hancock-MTH Communities, Inc., an SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT Arizona corporation, and currently d/b/a Meritage OF FACTS IN SUPPORT OF Homes Construction, Inc., an Arizona corporation, REPLY RE (1) PLAINTIFFS' and Meritage Homes of Arizona, Inc., an Arizona MOTION FOR PARTIAL corporation, SUMMARY JUDGMENT, AND (2) COUNTERDEFENDANTS' AND Plaintiffs, THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY v. JUDGMENT ON RICK AND BRENDA HANCOCKS' Ricky Lee Hancock and Brenda Hancock, COUNTER-CLAIMS AND THIRDhusband and wife; Gregory S. Hancock and PARTY CLAIMS Linda Hancock, husband and wife, Rick Hancock Homes L.L.C., an Arizona limited liability company; RLH Development, L.L.C., an Arizona limited liability company; and J2H2, (Assigned to the L.L.C., an Arizona limited liability company, Honorable Roslyn O. Silver) Defendants. Rick and Brenda Hancock,

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Defendants, Counter-Claimants, and Third Party Plaintiffs, v. Meritage Homes Corporation, a Maryland Corporation, formerly d/b/a Meritage Corporation, Hancock-MTH Builders, Inc., an Arizona Corporation, Hancock-MTH Communities, Inc., an Arizona Corporation, an Arizona Corporation; and currently d/b/a Meritage Homes Construction, Inc., an Arizona Corporation, and Meritage Homes of Arizona, Inc., an Arizona Corporation; Steven J. Hilton and Suzanne Hilton, husband and wife; John R. Landon and Debi Landon, husband and wife; Scott Keeffe and Vicky Keeffe, husband and wife; Roger Zetah and Jane Doe Zetah, husband and wife; and James Arneson and Zane Arneson, husband and wife, Third Party Defendants. MERITAGE'S SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT OF FACTS 1. From May 2004 to July 2004, Meritage offered to Rick Hancock that it

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might be willing to let him use the name "Rick Hancock Homes" as long as he provided complete disclaimers (1) wherever and whenever he used it (which he has never done) and (2) otherwise agreed to the terms of a settlement agreement that Meritage had drafted (which he never did). See May 3, 2004 letter from I. Mathew to D. Goldfine, Exhibit 1. 2. June 7, 2004, letter from I. Mathew to D. Goldfine, Exhibit 2, reflecting

ongoing negotiations 3. June 21, 2004, from letter I. Mathew to D. Goldfine, Exhibit 3, reflecting

ongoing negotiations. 4. By July 12, 2004, the parties had no agreement, and discovery went

forward. See July 21, 2004 letter from I. Mathew to D. Goldfine, Exhibit 4. 5. According to his own testimony, in this case, it is undisputed that events

in which Meritage had no role substantially caused Defendant Greg Hancock to quit his

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job. See November 21, 2006, Deposition of Greg Hancock, 103:16-105:5, 139:6143:15 and 155:2-165:8.

DATED this 5th day of March, 2007. SNELL & WILMER L.L.P.

By s/ Dan W. Goldfine Dan W. Goldfine Adam Lang One Arizona Center Phoenix, AZ 85004-2202 Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Third Party Defendants and By s/ Grant Woods Grant Woods GRANT WOODS, P.C. 1726 North Seventh Street Phoenix, AZ 85006 Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Third Party Defendants CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on March 5, 2007, I electronically transmitted the foregoing 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: Ivan K. Mathew Mathew & Mathew, P.C. 3000 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1730 Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Attorneys for Defendant Rick Hancock Robert M. Frisbee Frisbee & Bostock, PLC 1747 East Morton Avenue Suite 108 Phoenix AZ 85020 Attorneys for Defendant Greg Hancock

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Kenneth J. Sherk Timothy J. Burke Fennemore Craig, P.C. 3003 N. Central Ave. Suite 2600 Phoenix, AZ 85012-2913 Attorneys for Defendant Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P. in State Court Action

s/ Dan W. Goldfine
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