Free Response to Motion - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

I LAW OFFICES
RONAN & FIRESTONE, PLC f
2 9300 E. RAINTREE DRIVE, SUITE 120
SCO”I'I`Sl)Al.E, ARIZONA 85260 {
3 (480) 222—9l00
Merrick B. Firestone, SB #012138 .
4 Veronica L. Manolio, SB #020230 .
Attorneysfor the Nelcela Defendants I
5
6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 1
7 IN AND FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA
8 Merchant Transaction Systems, Inc., No. 02-CV-1954 - PHX—MHM
9 Plaintiff NELCELA, INC., LEN CAMPAGNA
10 vs. AND ALEC DOLLARHIDE’S
RESPONSE TO THE JOIN PARTIES’ .
1 1 Nelcela, Inc., an Arizona corporation; MOTION FOR LEAVE
Len Campagna, an Arizona resident; TO FILE A MOTION FOR (
12 Alec Dollarhide, an Arizona resident; PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT I
Ebocom, Inc., a Delaware Corporation; (
13 POST Integrations, Inc., an Illinois Corp.,
(The Honorable Mary H. Murguia) (
1 4 Defendants.
And Related Counterclaims, Cross-Claims {
15 and Third—Party Claims. §
16
17 The joint parties’ request for leave to file a renewed motion for partial summary judgment
18 is suspect, at best. The joint parties base their request on a jury verdict that they know Nelcela has
19 questioned. In fact, Nelcela tiled its Renewed Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law and/or I
20 Motion for a New Trial (Docket No. 505) ten (10) days before the joint parties attempted to tile a (
21 new Motion for Partial Summary Judgment by relying on an erred jury verdict. See, Docket Nos.
22 512-5 13 (The joint parties filed for leave on May 17, 2007 — ten days after Nelcela moved to set the
23 jury verdict aside.) This Court has already rej ected the proposed new request for summary judgment
24 (Docket No. 5 17), and permission to re-file summary judgment motions should be held in abeyance.
25 This Court should first determine the issues raised in Nelcela’s Motion for Judgment as a Matter of
26 Law and/ or Motion for a New Trial before renewed summary judgment makes sense.
Case 2:O2—cv—O1954-IVIHIVI Document 523 Filed 06/O4/2007 Page 1 of 2 A

l Because the parties will be forced to spend time, energy and money re—arguing summary
2 judgment while there are still pending issues on Judgment as a Matter of Law and/ or a New Trial,
3 Nelcela respectfully asks that the Court not allow the joint parties’ request. In the sheer interest of
4 efficiency for all parties, summary judgment should only be brought after the Court decides the
5 course that this litigation will take, and Nelcela respectfully asks the Court to deny leave at this time.
6 RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 4* day of June, 2007.
7 RONAN & FIRESTONE, PLC
8
9 /s/ Veronica L. Manolio
Merrick B. Firestone I
l0 Veronica L. Manolio L
9300 E. Raintree Drive, Suite 120 s
ll Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
Attorneys for the Nelcela Dejendants 1
l 2
ORIGINAL filed electronically with the Clerk’s Office A
l3 and COPIES electronically transmitted to the following Q
CM/ECF registrants this same date to: S
l4 ;
Nicholas J. DiCarlo i
l 5 ndicarlogcvthedcplinn. com Q
Local Counsel for Merchant Transaction Systems L
l 6 I
William McKinnon
1 7 mail@williammckin;non.corn .
Attorney for Merchant Transaction Systems E
l 8
Peter D. Baird §
19 baird q;Dlrlaw.com I
Robert H. McKirgan
20 rmckirgangaDlrlaw.cc>m
Richard A. Halloran
2 l [email protected]
Kimberly Demarchi i
22 I<.demarchi(cDlrlaw.com
Attorneys for POST and Ebocom A
23
George C. Chen §
24 gcchen@)bry*ancave.com or p
r rvechen arb ancaveacom _
25 A ttorneys for Lexcel, Inc. Q
26 By: /s Diana Renteri ;
Case 2:O2—cv—O1954-IVIHIVI Document 523 2 Filed 06/O4/2007 Page 2 of 2

Case 2:02-cv-01954-MHM

Document 523

Filed 06/04/2007

Page 1 of 2

Case 2:02-cv-01954-MHM

Document 523

Filed 06/04/2007

Page 2 of 2