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Telephone: (702) 385=4202
BRADLEY & MERRELL
c/o Jones, Jones, Close & Brown
300 South Fourth Street, Seventh Floor Las Vegas, Nevada 89101-6026
Fax: (702) 385-1655
July 23, 1993
VIA HAND DELIVERY
Honorable Lawrence R. Leavitt Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court District of Nevada 300 Las Vegas Boulevard South Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
Re: Nevada Power Company v. Monsanto Company, et al_. USDC, District of Nevada Case CV-S-89-555-LDG (LRL)
Dear Judge Leavitt:
Enclosed please find a copy of Plaintiff Nevada Power Company's Submission to Judge Leavitt Under Seal- We are neither serving nor filing with the clerk the attached documents. The pleading itself will be served upon all parties.
Best Regards,
BRADLEY & MERRELL
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PAUL E. MERRELL Coordinating Attorney
1 J. RANDALL JONES, ESQ. CHARLES H. McCREA, SR., ESQ.
2 DOUGLAS M. COHEN, ESQ. JONES, JONES, CLOSE
3 & BROWN, CHARTERED 700 Bank of America Plaza
4 300 South Fourth Street Las Vegas, Nevada 89101-6026
5 Telephone: (702) 385-4202
6 RALPH A. BRADLEY, ESQ.
PAUL E. MERRELL, ESQ. 7 BRADLEY & MERRELL
c/o JONES, JONES, CLOSE 8 & BROWN, CHARTERED
700 Bank of America Plaza 9 300 South Fourth Street
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101-6026 10 Telephone: (702) 385-4202
11 Attorneys for Plaintiff NEVADA POWER COMPANY
12 a Nevada corporation
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14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA
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16 NEVADA POWER COMPANY, etc.,
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Plaintiff,
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) 19 MONSANTO COMPANY, etc., et al., )
) 20 Defendants. )
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CASE CV-S--89-555--LDG (LRL)
PLAINTIFF NEVADA POWER COMPANY'S SUBMISSION TO JUDGE LEAVITT UNDER SEAL
22 Plaintiff Nevada Power Company ("Nevada Power") submits the
23 following documents directly to Judge Leavitt under seal and asks
24 that they be maintained under seal:
25 1. Heading only from memorandum from Papageorge to Stapleton
26 with handwritten content dated 2/26/75. Bates no. Nev.
27 034520.
28 2 Memorandum from Papageorge to Stapleton with handwritten
1 : '.notes dated 2/26/75 re: Chlorinated Dibenzofurans in PCBs
2 and the need for warning labels. Bates no. NEV 034724.
3 Plaintiff's Exhibit no. 2891.
4 3. Handwritten notes dated 11/6/72 re: PCB meeting with Dr.
5 Fitzhugh. Bates nos. NEV 035012-035016, Plaintiff's
6 Exhibit No. 2891.
7 4. Case Study Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Study of Principles
8 of Decision Making, Chemicals in the Environment, National
9 Academy of Science. Bates nos. NEV 040855- 040863.
10 Plaintiff's Exhibit 2842.
11 These are the documents that defendant manufacturer Monsanto
12 Company ("Monsanto") alleges are the product of inadvertent
13 disclosure and purports are privileged. A copy of John Tatlock's
14 submission to Nevada Power at 4:00 p.m. on July 22, 1993 is appended
15 to this submission.
16 Copies of the documents will not be served on any of the
17 parties.
18 A typescript of the handwritten document has been prepared and
19 is included (in Tab 4) to expedite the Court's review of the text
20 contained therein.
21 DATED: July 23, 1993 22
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BRADLEY & MERRELL RALPH A. BRADLEY PAUL E. MERRELL DEBORAH N. MAILANDER DAVID E. SCHALK ROBERTA J. STRAUB
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26 PAUL E. MERRELL Coordinating Attorney
27 BRADLEY & MERRELL c/o JONES, JONES, CLOSE & BROWN
28 300 South Fourth St., Suite 700
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5 Plaintiff Nevada Power Company:
6 DAVID S. McCREA, ESQ. McCREA & McCREA
7 119 South Walnut Street Post Office Box 1310
8 Bloomington, Indiana 47402 Telephone: (812) 336-4840
9 FREDERICK M. BARON, ESQ.
10 RUSSELL WILLS BUDD, ESQ. JANE N. SAGINAW, ESQ.
11 BRIAN D. WEINSTEIN, ESQ. PAUL F. DONSBACH, ESQ.
12 BARON & BUDD 3102 Oak Lawn Avenue, Suite 1100
13 Dallas, Texas 75219 Telephone: (214) 521-3605
14 MICHAEL T. GALLAGHER, ESQ.
15 CRAIG LEWIS, ESQ. JOHN H. KIM, ESQ.
16 FISHER, GALLAGHER & LEWIS, L.L.P. 1000 Louisiana, 70th Floor
17 Houston, Texas 77002 Telephone: (713) 654-4433
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Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 (702) 385-4202
Attorneys for Plaintiff NEVADA POWER COMPANY, a Nevada corporation
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
2 I hereby certify that on the 23rd day of July, 1993, the foregoing PLAINTIFF NEVADA POWER COMPANY'S SUBMISSION TO JUDGE
3 LEAVITT UNDER SEAL was served on the following parties:
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F - Via fax
5 FE - Via Federal Express
H - Via hand delivery
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Steven R. Kune, Esq.
7 Williams & Connolly
725 12th Street, N.W.
8 Washington, DC 20005
Fax No.: (202) 434-5029
9 Attorneys for Defendants MONSANTO COMPANY, GENERAL ELECTRIC
COMPANY and WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION
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Arvin Maskin, Esq.
11 Konrad L. Cailteux, Esq.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
12 767 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10153
13 Fax No.: (212), 310-8007
Attorneys for Defendant WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION
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J. Bruce Alverson, Esq.
15 Alverson, Taylor, Mortensen & Nelson
3821 West Charleston Boulevard
16 Las Vegas, NV 89102
Fax NO.: (702) 385-7000
17 Attorneys for Defendant GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
18 John L. Thorndal, Esq. Thorndal, Backus, Maupin & Armstrong
19 1100 East Bridger Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89101
20 Fax No.: (702) 366-0327 Attorneys for Defendants MONSANTO COMPANY and
21 WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION
22 Bruce A. Featherstone, Esq. Kirkland & Ellis
23 1999 Broadway, Suite 4000 Denver, co 80202
24 Fax No.: (303) 291-3300 Attorneys for Defendant MONSANTO COMPANY
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27 An employee of BRADLEY & MERRELL C/o JONES, JONES, CLOSE & BROWN
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BRADLEY & MERRELL c/o JONES, JONES, CLOSE & BROWN, CHARTERED
Seventh Floor -- Bank of America Plaza 300 South Fourth Street
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101-6026 (702) 385-4202
MESSAGE FROM XEROX 7024: (702) 385-1655 DATE: July 23, 1993
TO: John Tatlock, Esq.
FA X #:
(303) 291-3334
PHONE #: (303) 291-3000
FROM:
Paul E. Merrell, Esq.
CLIENT/MATTER:
Nevada Power v. Monsanto, et al.
CLIENT/MATTER NO.: 11927.2
DOCUMENT(S) DESCRIPTION: Copy of July 23, 1993 letter to Honorable Lawrence R. Leavitt, copy of "Plaintiff Nevada Power Company's Submission to Judge Leavitt Under Seal"
NUMBER OF PAGES (including cover page): Six (6)
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BRADLEY & MERRELL c/o JO N E S , JO N E S . C L O S E & BROWN. C H A R TE R ED
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M E S S A G E f r o m X E R O X 7 0 2 4 : (7021 3 6 6 -1 8 5 6 DATE: J u ly 23. 1 983
TO:
John Tatlock, Esq.
FAX# :
(303) 2 9 1 -3 3 3 4
PHONE #: (303) 2 9 1 -3 0 0 0
FROM:
Paul E- Morrell, Esci.
CLIENT/MATTER;
Nevada Power v. Monsanto, ot el.
C U EN T/M ATTER NO.:
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DOCUMENT(S) DESCRIPTION:
C opy o f Ju ly 23, 1993 latter to Honorable
Law rence R. Leavitt, c o p y
"Plaintiff Nevada Power Com pany's Subm ission to Judgo
Leavitt Under Seal"
N U M B E R OP P A G E S (Including cover page): S ix (6)
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