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30-93 FRI 15:09 WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY P, 02 - DAVID C . KlERNAN 202) 434-3191 VIA TELECOPY LAV OFFICES WILLIAMS S CONNOLLY 725 TWELFTH STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 2000S (202) 434-5000 FAX (202) 434>5029 July 30, 1993 EDWA RADOfIclJNL CNOirMrHvOiULLJTAnM aia<(IiMa ^ *O>'K I t ) Paul E. Merrell, Esq. Bradley & Merrell c/o Jones, Jones, Close & Brown 700 Bank of America Plaza 300 South Fourth Street, 7th Floor Las vegas, Nevada 89101-6026 He: Nevada Power Company v. Monsa nto Company si al-., Case No. CV-S-09-555-LDG-LRL Dear Paul: I have enclosed a revised Stipulation and Order on the expert deposition schedule. | The revised stipulation (1) contains a new preamble; (2) provides an additional week for Nevada power to take depositions of defendants' experts, from October 8 through November 12, 1993, and thus moves the date for the close of discovery to November 12, 1993; and (3) requires Nevada Power to disclose its experts on August 20, 1993. It is understood that none of the parties have had sufficient time to confirm the availability of their respective experts for these new time intervalsf and that, if absolutely necessary, special arrangments may have to be made for any expert who might not be available. He also agreed to discuss the possibility of taking these depositions in locations convenient to all counsel. 1 JOHN L.. THORNDAL, ESQ. PEGGY A. LEEN, ESQ. 2 THORNDAL, BACKUS, ARMSTRONG & BALKENBUSH 3 A Professional Corporation 1100 East Bridger Avenue (89101) 4 P.O. Drawer 2070 Las Vegas, NV 89125-2070 5 Telephone: (702) 366-0622 6 Attorneys for Defendants WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION 7 AND MONSANTO COMPANY 8 BRUCE A. FEATHERSTONE, ESQ. JOHN H. TATLOCK, ESQ. 9 KIRKLAND & ELLIS 1999 Broadway,. Suite 4000 10 Denver, CO 80202 Telephone: (303) 291-3000 11 Attorneys for Defendant MONSANTO COMPANY 12 ARVIN MASKIN, ESQ. 13 KONRAD L. CAILTEUX, ESQ. WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES 14 767 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10153 15 Telephone: (212) 310-8790 Attorneys for Defendant 16 WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION 17 (Continued) 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 19 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 20 21 NEVADA POWER COMPANY, a Nevada ) CV--S-89-555-LDG-LRL 22 Corporation, ) Plaintiff,) 23 v. ) STIPULATION AND ORDER ) MODIFYING SCHEDULING 24 MONSANTO COMPANY, a foreign corpor-) ORDER AND LITIGATION ation; GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, a ) PLAN 25 foreign corporation; WESTINGHOUSE ) ELECTRIC CORPORATION, a foreign ) 26 corporation; and DOES I through ) XXV, inclusive, ) 27 Defendants.) ____________________________________________________________________________ ) 28 1 (Attorneys Continued:) 2 J. BRUCE ALVERSON, ESQ. DAVID R. CLAYSON, ESQ. 3 ALVERSON/ TAYLOR/ MORTENSEN & NELSON 4 3821 West Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89102 5 Telephone: (702) 384-7000 Attorneys for Defendant 6 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 7 STEVEN R. KUNEY, ESQ. DAVID C. KIERNAN, ESQ. 8 WILLIAMS St CONNOLLY 725 Twelfth Street, N.W. 9 Washington, D.C. 20005 Telephone: (202) 434-5843 10 Attorneys for Defendant GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 11 PAUL E. MERRELL, ESQ. 12 RALPH BRADLEY, ESQ. BRADLEY St MERRELL 13 JONES, JONES, CLOSE & BROWN 300 South Fourth Street 14 Suite 700 Las Vegas, NV 89101 15 Attorneys for Plaintiff NEVADA POWER COMPANY 16 17 WHEREAS, this Court on April 8, 1993 issued a Scheduling Order 18 and Litigation Plan (Docket Entry 343) with fact deposition I1 19 discovery scheduled to end Friday, July 23, 1993, and disclosure by 20 plaintiff of its experts on Friday, July 30, 1993; and 21 WHEREAS, the parties have been engaged in extensive fact ] 22 deposition discovery since the inception of this litigation, 23 including approximately 100 depositions, many of which have been 24 taken in other districts since April 8, 1993; and 25 WHEREAS, the parties have recognized that up to 22 additional 1 26 fact depositions need to be taken, and with the Court's prior 27 / / / 28 / / / 2 1 guidance are in the process of finalizing a stipulated order 2 concerning the 22 depositions; and | t 3 WHEREAS, it was the intent of the April 8, 1993 Scheduling 4 Order and Litigation Plan to have the fact discovery completed i; 5 before providing expert designations and beg:inning expert deposi- 6 tions. 7 IT IS, THEREFORE, STIPULATED AND AGREE p through undersigned 8 counsel to the following modifications Jn the Court's April 8, 1993 9 Scheduling Order and Litigation Plan: 10 1. Paragraph 6 of the April 8, 1993 Scheduling Order is 11 modified to provide that Plaintiff shall provide Rule 26(b)(4) 12 disclosure of its experts and their i anticipated testimony by 13 August 20, 1993. Defendants may deposje PlJintiff's experts from i14 August 27, 1993 through October 1, 1993. 15 2. Paragraph 7 of the April 8, 1993 Scheduling Order is 16 modified to provide that Defendants shall provide Rule 2 6 (b)(4) I 17 disclosure of their experts and theirr anticipated testimony by 18 October 8, 1993. Plaintiff may depose Defendants' experts from 19 October 8, 1993 through November 12, 1993. 20 / / / 21 / / / 22 / / / 23 / / / 24 / / / 25 I I I 26 / / / 27 I I I 28 f I / 3 1 3. Paragraph 8 of the April 8, 1993 Scheduling Order is 2 modified to provide that discovery will close on November 12, 1993. 3 DATED this 30th day of July, 1993. 4 STEVEN R. KUNEY, ESQ. DAVID C. KIERMAN, ESQ. 5 WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY 6 A L V E R S0 N 7 ,T A Y L O R , MORTENSEN 6 NELSON 7 Ja 8 J. /B W c e AiVerson, Es* David R. ciayson, Esa/ 9 3821 West Charleston'Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89102 10 Attorneys for GE 11 BRADLEY fi MERRELL JONES,/JONES;,, CLOSE & BRR<OWN 12 BY 13 Palil E. ^Merrell, Esq. 300 South Fourth St. 14 Suite 700 Las Vegas, NV 89101 15 Attorneys for PLAINTIFF BRUCE A. FEATHERSTONE, ESQ JOHN[H. TATLOCK, ESQ. KIRKLAND fi ELLIS Attorneys, for MONSANTO ARVIN MASKIN, ESQ. KONRAD L. CAILTEUX, ESQ. WEIL,[ GOTSHAL fi MANGES Attorneys for WEC THORNDAL, BACKUS, ARMSTRONG & BALKENBUSH BY John L.jThorndal, Esq. Peggy A l Leen, Esq. P.O. Drawer 2070 Las Vegas, NV 89125-2070 Attorneys for MONSANTO fi WEC 16 17 IT IS SO ORDERED: 18 19 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 20 DATE: 21 22 23 24 25 26 st ips\7-30-93. stp 27 28 - 4-