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1 Matthew D. Kleifield — 011564
Scott I. Gruber — 022478 I
2 KUNZ PLITT HYLAND
DEMLONG & KLEIFIELD
3 3838 North Central Avenue, Suite 1500
Phoenix, Arizona 85012-1902
4 (602) 331-4600
5 Attorneys for Defendants
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1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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‘ IN AND FOR THE DISTRICT COURT OF ARIZONA
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9 MARVIN SAPIRO and GLORIA No. CIV03—1555 PHX SRB
SAPIRO, his wife,
10 _ _ DEFENDANTS SUNSTONE HOTELS
Plamtiffs, iwvrzsroizs, L.L.c. ANI)
ll SUNSTONE HOTEL INVESTORS,
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12 PLAINTIFFS’ FIRST REQUEST FOR .
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INWSTOH LP- nrzcuivrean 14, 2004
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16 Defendants, by and through counsel undersigned, and pursuant to Rule 36, Federal Rules
17 of Civil Procedure, hereby respond to Plaintiff? First Request For Admissions [Nos. l thorough
18 49) and Second Set of Interrogatories (Nos. 28 through 29), dated December 14, 2004, as
19 follows:
_ 20 GENERAL OBIECTIONS
21 1. Defendants, Sunstone Hotel Investors, L.L.C. and Sunstone Hotel Investors, L.P.
22 object to each and every Request for Admission and Interrogatory to the extent that they seek to p
23 require Defendants to make an unreasonable investigation or impose duties or obligations upon
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29. Prior to February, 2003, it was feasible for the San Marcos Resort to take
2 measures that would have minimized or eradicated the presence of Legionella pneumophilia in r
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6 30. The San Marcos Resort owed Marvin and Gloria Sapiro a duty to maintain its
‘ 7 premises in a reasonably safe manner. _ _
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10 31. The duty that the San Marcos Resort owed to Marvin and Gloria Sapiro to
ll maintain its premises in a reasonably safe manner entailed reasonable inspection to discover
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I5 32. The presence of Legionella pneumophilin lI1 the San Marcos Resort’s plumbing
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18 Defendants object to this request on the grounds that it is irrelevant, not reasonably
19 calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence and vague, assumes facts not in
20 evidence and is nonspecific as to time, duration or concentration. Plaintiffs have not produced
2] any results of testing that took place for Legionella pneumophila: bacteria in February, 2003,
22 which indicated the presence of said bacteria in Room 126 or elsewhere on the Premises.
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7 3838 North Central Avenue, Suit 1500
1 Phoenix, Arizona 85012-1902
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1 12 Boies, Schiller & Flexner, L.L.P.
A Bank of America Tower, Suite 2800
13 100 S.E. Second Street
1 " ` Miami, Florida 33131
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