Free Motion for Leave to File Excess Pages - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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40 North Central Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4429 Facsimile (602) 262-5747 Telephone (602) 262-5311 Stephen M. Bressler (State Bar No. 009032) [email protected] Ann-Martha Andrews (State Bar No. 012616) [email protected] Scott M. Bennett (State Bar No. 022350) [email protected] Attorneys for Defendants UnumProvident Corporation and Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIZONA ) No. CIV-02-2281-PHX-SMM ) ) Plaintiff, ) MOTION TO EXCEED PAGE LIMIT ) vs. ) UNUMProvident Corporation and Provident ) ) Life and Accident Insurance Company, ) ) Defendants. ) ) Defendants Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company and UnumProvident

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17 Corporation respectfully request the Court's permission to exceed the page limit for their 18 Reply in Support of Renewed Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law, or in the 19 Alternative, Motion for New Trial and/or Remittitur. The defendants request permission 20 to file a brief of up to 16 pages. 21 The defendants filed a consolidated brief based on Rules 50 and 59. By order

22 dated November 14, 2005, this Court allowed the defendants to exceed the 17-page limit 23 for motions by nine pages. The Court allowed the plaintiff the same number of additional 24 pages for his response brief. At this time, the defendants request half of that additional 25 amount, five pages, for their reply brief. 26 Undersigned counsel has conferred with the plaintiff's counsel, Mr. Dawson, who

27 advised that he has no objection to the defendants' being granted the additional pages for 28 the reply brief.
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RESPECFULLY SUBMITTED this 11th day of January, 2006. LEWIS AND ROCA LLP

By s/Ann-Martha Andrews Stephen M. Bressler Ann-Martha Andrews Scott M. Bennett Attorneys for Defendants UnumProvident Corporation and Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on January 11, 2006, 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: Steven Dawson Anita Rosenthal Dawson & Rosenthal 6586 Highway 179 Suite B-2 Sedona, Arizona 86351 Attorneys for Plaintiff Gregg H. Temple Gregg H. Temple, P.C. 4835 East Cactus Road Suite 2 25 Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-4196 Attorneys for Plaintiff Thomas L. Hudson Danielle D. Janitch Osborn Maledon, P.A. 2929 North Central Avenue Suite 2100 Phoenix, Arizona 85012-2794 Attorneys for Plaintiff

s/Roxann Draper

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