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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 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 is a draft of the Master Stipulated Order that may need a short discussion at the hearing this morning at 10:00. Sincerely, PEM:bjb cc: Konrad L. Cailteux, Esq. John Tatlock, Esq. Robert J. Shaughnessy, Esq. cvg\cor\lc*vitt.102 PAUL E. MERRELL Coordinating Attorney 1 DRAFT1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 2 3 NEVADA POWER COMPANY, etc., ) ) 4 Plaintiff, ) 5 VS. ) ) ) 6 MONSANTO COMPANY, etc., et al., ) ) 7 Defendants. ) _________________________________________________ ) 8 CASE CV-S-89-555-LDG (LRL) STIPULATED ORDER JULY 22. 1993 4 P.M. DRAFT 9 All parties to this action, through undersigned counsel, agree 10 and stipulate that certain depositions noticed by the parties prior 11 to July 23 either should occur or require further discussion among 12 the parties: 13 A. The following depositions should be allowed to be taken 14 following the July 23, 1993 fact deposition deadline. The parties 15 should be instructed to meet and confer in good faith regarding the 16 dates for the depositions. 17 1. Ron Lawrence, previously noticed by Nevada Power 18 Company. (Already approved by existing order). 19 2. Raymond Paschke, previously noticed by Nevada Power 20 Company. (Already approved by existing order). 21 3. Roger Wills, previously noticed by Nevada Power 22 Company. (Already approved by existing order). 23 4. Robert Don McClain, previously noticed by Nevada Power 24 Company. (Already approved by existing order). 25 5. Jeff Bair, personal capacity and 30(b)(6), previously 26 noticed by Nevada Power Company. (Already approved by 27 existing order.) 28 6. Completion of John Brown of G.E., previously noticed /S 1 by Nevada Power Company. 2 7. Subpoena deposition of Fluor Power Services, Inc., 3 previously noticed by General Electric. (Nevada Power 4 does not object to taking of deposition but reserves 5 right to object at trial to use of documents obtained 6 through subpoena duces tecum after deadline for 7 written discovery) 8 8. Continuation of Dennis Schwehr deposition previously 9 noticed by Monsanto. 10 9. Continuation of Plaintiff Nevada Power Company's March 11 12, 1993 Notice of taking deposition of defendant 12 Westinghouse Electric Corporation pursuant to FRCP 13 30(b) (6) except as to subtopic "811 (eight) of 14 "Attachment A." Nevada Power and Westinghouse 15 stipulate that Westinghouse reserves its right under 16 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to designate 17 appropriate person or persons, and the parts of the 18 notice to which those persons will respond, and that 19 Nevada Power reserves its right to contest the 20 adequacy of those designations. The parties 21 contemplate that the deposition regarding topic "3" 22 (three) of the notice would take place after the Court 23 has had an opportunity to rule on Westinghouse1s claim 24 to privilege as to documents submitted in camera 25 pursuant to Sections 4 and 5 of the Court's Order of 26 July 16, 1993. 27 10. Subpoena duces tecum to Edison Electric Institute, 28 previously noticed by Westinghouse (Nevada Power does 2 1 not object to taking of deposition but reserves right 2 to obj ect at trial to use of documents obtained 3 through subpoena duces tecum after deadline for 4 written discovery) 5 11. 30(b) (6) notice to Nevada Power regarding distribution 6 systems, previously noticed by Westinghouse. 7 B . As to the following depositions, the parties have no 8 agreed that they should be taken, are negotiating in good faith, but 9 reserve the right to move for protective orders at a later time. The 10 parties agree that the fact such depositions were not taken on or 1 1 before July 23, 1993 should not be considered by the Court in ruling 12 on such motions for protective orders. The parties should be 13 instructed to meet and confer in good faith regarding the need for 14 and/or dates of the depositions. 15 12. Manny Neal, previously noticed by Nevada Power 16 Company. 17 13. 30(b)(6) notice to G.E. regarding document retention 18 policies and practices with respect to PCB-related |7 19 documents, previously offered by G.E. in lieu of 20 taking the personal deposition of Manny Neal and 21 subject to the agreement among counsel to reevaluate 22 the need for Mr. Neal's deposition following 23 completion of this 30(b)(6) deposition. 24 14. 30(b) (6) notice to G.E. regarding warnings, previously 25 noticed by Nevada Power Company. 26 15. Dr. Emmett Kelly, previously noticed by Nevada Power 27 Company. 28 16. Richard Mahoney, previously noticed by Nevada Power 3 1 Company. 2 17. 30(b)(6) notice to Monsanto regarding IBT 3 (continuation of Levinskas portion), previously 4 noticed by Nevada Power. 5 18. 30(b) (6) notice to Monsanto regarding Exhibits 422 and 6 1118 continuation regarding incorporated document 7 claimed privileged. 8 19. 30(b)(6) notice to Nevada Power re G.E. 9 interrogatories, previously noticed by General 10 Electric. 11 UNDER DISCUSSION FOR INCLUSION IN STIP 12 20. Deposition of Custodian of Records for each party 13 solely to authenticate documents and to determine 14 their status under the Rules governing admissibility 15 of hearsay evidence (to the extent the documents are 16 not otherwise authenticated through agreement of the 17 parties or responses to prior discovery requests 18 seeking authentication/hearsay status). Approved by 19 Monsanto and Nevada Power in principle, still open on 20 specific language. 21 C. Notices on which Monsanto and Nevada Power are seekin 22 guidance of Court regarding whether they belong in category A or 23 category B above, but stipulated that they belong in one or the 24 other.: 25 21. 30(b)(6) notice to Nevada Power re reliance, 26 previously noticed by Monsanto. 27 22. 30(b)(6) notice to Nevada Power re property damages, 28 previously noticed by Monsanto. 4 1 DATED: July ___, 1993 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 DATED: July 12 , 1993 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DATED: July ___, 1993 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 BRADLEY & MERRELL RALPH A. BRADLEY PAUL E. MERRELL PAUL E. MERRELL Coordinating Attorney BRADLEY & MERRELL c/o JONES, JONES, CLOSE & BROWN 300 South Fourth St., Suite 700 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 (702) 385-4202 Attorneys for Plaintiff NEVADA POWER COMPANY, a Nevada' corporation THORNDAL, BACKUS, MAUPIN & ARMSTRONG By: _________________ __________ JOHN L. THORNDAL THORNDAL, BACKUS, MAUPIN & ARMSTRONG 1100 East Bridger Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89101 (702) 366-0622 Attorneys for Defendants MONSANTO COMPANY and WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION 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 5 1 2 3 4 5 G 7 pcmVnvpowciAmwter.stp 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 IT I S SO ORDERED. Magistrate Judge United States District Court DATED: 6 BRADLEY & MERRELL c/o JONES, JONES, CLOSE & BROWN, CHARTERED Seventh Floor -- Bank of America Plaza 3 0 0 South Fourth Street Las Vegas, Nevada 8 9 1 0 1 -6 0 2 6 (702) 385-4202 MESSAGE FROM XEROX 7 0 2 4 : (702) 385-1655 DATE: July 23, 1 9 9 3 . TO: John Tatlock, Esq. FAX#: (303) 291-3334 PHONE #: (303) 29 1-3 0 0 0 TO: Robert J. Shaughnessy, Esq. FAX#: (202) 434-5029 TO: Konrad L. Cailteux, Esq. PHONE #: FAX #: (202) 434-5843 2 /O 'S s y b (212) J32&&&7- OR 42*2^85=465^ PHONE #: (212) 31 0-8 0 0 0 FROM: Paul E. Merrell MATTER/MATTER NO.: Nevada Power v. Monsanto, et al., # 1 192 7.2 DOCUMENT(S) DESCRIPTION: July 23 ,19 93 letter addressed to Honorable Lawrence R. Leavitt enclosing a copy of the Master Stipulated Order NUMBER OF PAGES (including cover page): Eight (8) THIS TELECOPY IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE ADDRESSEE NAMED ABOVE. IT M AY CONTAIN INFORMATION T H A T IS PRIVILEGED AN D CONFIDENTIAL. IF YOU H AVE RECEIVED THE TELECOPY IN ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY TELEPHONE, DESTROY ALL COPIES, A N D DO N OT DISSEMINATE THE INFORMATION TO ANYONE. TH AN K YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. IF YOU EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH THIS TRANSMISSION please call (702) 3 8 5 -4 2 0 2 and ask for: Operator, Ext. 615 c /o B R AD LE Y & M ER R ELL JO N E S , JO N E S . C LO S E St B R O W N . 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