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ki.fe 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 13 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 15 16 NEVADA POWER COMPANY, etc., ) ) 17 Plaintiff, ) 18 vs. ) ) 19 MONSANTO COMPANY, etc., et al., ) ) ) 20 Defendants. ) __________________________________________________________________________ ) 21 CASECV-S-89-555-LDG (LRL) STIPULATED ORDER 22 All parties to this action, through undersigned counsel, agree 2 3 and stipulate: 2 4 1. That Nevada Power Company has noticed the deposition of Mr. 2 5 Mansfield Neal, a General Electric Company official, notice attached 26 hereto and incorporated herein; 27 28 1 zed a Rule 30(b) (6) 2( ly official most 3) evidence, notice 4 5 6i aroposed deposition ive would at least 7 8 4. That Mr.. Neal is an attorney within General Electric1s 9 office of General Counsel with supervisory responsibilities in this 10 case; 11 5. That General Electric has obj ected to the proposed 12 deposition of Mr. Neal, objections attached hereto and incorporated 13 herein; 14 6. That all parties wish to avoid subjecting Mr. Neal to a 15 deposition unless necessary; 16 7. However, the Court-set deadline for completion of fact 1 7 depositions is approaching quickly; 18 8. Therefore, the parties agree and stipulate that they will 19 confer on the need for Mr. N e a l 1s deposition to be taken after 20 completion of the Rule 30(b) (6) deposition on the alleged destruction 21 of evidence referred to above, and will resolve that issue through 22 later agreement or through a motion to the Court; 2 3 9. Furthermore, the parties agree and stipulate that, in the 2 4 event plaintiff elects to re-notice Mr. Neal's deposition, plaintiff 25 will provide General Electric with at least five days advance notice 2 6 of the deposition, to enable General Electric, if necessary and 2 7 appropriate, to call the matter to the Court's attention in writing. 2 8 10. Furthermore, the parties agree and stipulate that should 2 i& 1 the parties ultimately agree or the Court order that Mr. Neal's 2 deposition should be taken, that said deposition should proceed 3 despite the expiration of the Court-set deadline for completion of 4 fact witness depositions. 5 DATED: July 6 , 1993 BRADLEY & MERRELL RALPH A. BRADLEY PAUL E. MERRELL 7 8 PAUL E. MERRELL 9 Coordinating Attorney BRADLEY & MERRELL IO c/o JONES, JONES, CLOSE & BROWN 300 South Fourth St., Suite 700 11 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 (702) 385-4202 12 Attorneys for Plaintiff 13 NEVADA POWER COMPANY, a Nevada corporation 14 15 DATED: July ___ , 1993 16 THORNDAL, BACKUS, MAUPIN & ARMSTRONG 17 18 By: _____________________________ JOHN L. THORNDAL 19 THORNDAL, BACKUS, MAUPIN & ARMSTRONG 20 1100 East Bridger Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89101 21 (702) 366-0622 22 Attorneys for Defendants MONSANTO COMPANY and 23 WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION 24 25 26 27 28 3 i Eg 1 DATED: July 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2 8 pem\nvpower\ncaIstip.pem , 1993 ALVERSON, TAYLOR, MORTENSEN & NELSON J. BRUCE ALVERSON ALVERSON, TAYLOR, MORTENSEN & NELSON 3821 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, Nevada 89102 (702) 384-7000 Attorneys for Defendant GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY IT IS SO ORDERED. Magistrate Judge United States District Court DATED: 4 Telephone: (702) 385^202 BRADLEY & MERRELL c/o Jones, Jones, Close & Brown 300 South Fourth Street, Seventh Floor Las Vegas, Nevada 89101-6026 Fax: (702) 385-1655 7 July, 1993 VIA TELEFAX John H. Tatlock, Esq. Kirkland & Ellis 1999 Broadway, Suite 4000 Denver, Colorado 80202 Re: Nevada Power Company v. Monsanto Company, et al. USDC, District of Nevada Case CV-S-89-555-LDG (LRL) Dear John: This is to let you know that we sent a box of documents to you this afternoon which contained the documents referenced in our contention responses. The box should arrive in Denver tomorrow afternoon via Federal Express. Exhibits in that box are: 2523 - 2533, 2585 - 2732. Exhibit numbers 1959 - 2422 and 2534 - 2584 are reserved numbers. Sincerely, r j s :bms ij3\nvpowci\documnls\ttlck.l08 y