Free Motion for Leave to File Excess Pages - 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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LAW OFFICES One Arizona Center, 400 E. Van Buren Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2202 (602) 382-6000

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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 MOTION TO EXCEED PAGE Arizona corporation, and currently d/b/a Meritage LIMITS IN PLAINTIFFS' REPLY Homes Construction, Inc., an Arizona corporation, RE (1) TO MOTION FOR and Meritage Homes of Arizona, Inc., an Arizona PARTIAL SUMMARY corporation, 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 (Assigned to the liability company; RLH Development, L.L.C., Honorable Roslyn O. Silver) an Arizona limited liability company; and J2H2, L.L.C., an Arizona limited liability company, Defendants.

Case 2:04-cv-00384-ROS

Document 443

Filed 03/05/2007

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LAW OFFICES One Arizona Center, 400 E. Van Buren Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2202 (602) 382-6000

Rick and Brenda Hancock, 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. Plaintiffs respectfully ask this Court for permission to file Plaintiffs' Reply Re (1) Plaintiffs' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment, and (2) Counterdefendants' and ThirdParty Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment on Rick and Brenda Hancocks' Counter-Claims and Third-Party Claims in a number of pages exceeding the presumptive limit of eleven (11) pages pursuant to LRCiv. 7.2(e). The Reply Memorandum exceeds the limit by eight (8) pages. Good cause for leave to exceed exists for the following reasons. First, the Reply Memorandum responds to separate Responses, each setting forth many different arguments. Second, as set forth in the Motion to Strike filed contemporaneously herewith, the Responses and Controverting Statements of Fact contain more than a hundred factual statements that are not in compliance with Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(e) and LRCiv. 56.1(b). As a result, many pages were collectively used to clarify the record. Third, both Responses repeatedly misstated the law, and Meritage used a substantial amount of space to clarify these misstatements.

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LAW OFFICES One Arizona Center, 400 E. Van Buren Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2202 (602) 382-6000

Meritage is very cognizant of the Court's presumptive limits and limited resources. For the reasons set forth above, it believes that leave is appropriate and will, in fact, reduce the Court's burden in addressing the Motion. Accordingly, Meritage requests leave to exceed the page limits by eight (8) pages. 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

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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 5th, 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. 3300 North Central Avenue, Suite 1730 Phoenix, Arizona 85012 Attorneys for Defendants Rick Hancock, Brenda Hancock, Rick Hancock Homes, L.L.C., and RLH Development, L.L.C.

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LAW OFFICES One Arizona Center, 400 E. Van Buren Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2202 (602) 382-6000

Robert M. Frisbee Frisbee & Bostock, PLC 1747 East Morton Avenue Suite 108 Phoenix AZ 85020 Attorneys for Defendant Greg Hancock 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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