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BRADLEY & MERRELL 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: r 7 ~ 3 - \ - <? 3 TO: Ralph A. Bradley c/o Cheshire Inn FAX#: (314)647-0442 PHONE #: (314) 647-7300 FROM: Bradley & Merrell CLIENT/MATTER: Nevada Power v. Monsanto CLIENT/MATTER NO.: 11927.2 DOCUMENT(S) DESCRIPTION: Q (a ) ( ( e ) ( l o f 't t - M - NUMBER OF PAGES (including cover page): MESSAGE: ~~ $ _______ TH IS TELECOPY IS INTENDED ONLY FO RTHE ADDRESSEE NAM ED ABO VE. IT M A Y C O NTAIN IN FO RM ATIO N T H A T IS PRIVILEGED AN D C O N FID E N TIA L IF YOU H AVE RECEIVED THE TELECOPY IN ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY US IM M ED IATELY BY TELEPHONE, DESTROY A LL COPIES, A N D DO NOT DISSEM INATE THE INFO RM ATIO N TO AN YO NE. TH A N K YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. IF YOU EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH THIS TRANSMISSION please call (702) 385-4202 and ask for: Operator, Ext. 615 BRADLEY 8t MERRELL JO N E S , JO N E S . CLOSE fit. B R O W N , CHARTERED S e v e n th F lo o r -- B a n k o f A rn s r lc * Fiasco 3 0 0 S o u th F o u rth S tre e t Lb s V o g e s , N eva da 8 9 1 0 1 -SO2 6 (7 0 2 ) 3 8 6 -4 2 0 2 M E S S A G E FR O M X E R O X 7 0 2 4 ; f7Q21 3BS-1655 DATE: f~7"~ A TO: Ralph A . Bradley c/a Cheshire Inn FAX # : PHONE dP: 0 1 4 ) 047-0442 (314) 6 4 7 -7 30 0 FROM: Bradley S*. M errell CUENT/MATTER: Nevada Power v. M onsanto CLIENT/MATTER NO-: 11 9 2 7 .2 DOCUMENTISI DESCRIPTION: > 0 /VofC. / U . NUMBER OF FAGES (includ lnq cover pagel MESSAGE: - 8- 1HISTEIECOBV I* INTENDEDONLV MBTHCSDDimBU NA<eD ABOVE. PTBAAVCONTAININTaRHATION THAT (8PRlVLEaCD AMO COMrUINTIAL. IF TU HAVE ntOEIVkU THE TELECOPY IMmAOA. PLEASE NOTIPV US IMMODIATELy SV TELETHONC. DUm or 1 C O PCS. AMO DO NOT piuCMINATE THE INFORMATION TO ANTONS. THANK YOU PON TCUN AnNOJIANC*. IF YOU EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH THIS TRANSMISSION, please call (702) 38&-4202 and ask -fur: Operator. E xt. 61B TRANSMISSION REPORT THIS DOCUMENT WAS CONFIRMED (REDUCED SAMPLE ABOVE - SEE DETAILS BELOW) ** COUNT H* TOTAL PAGES SCANNED : 8 TOTAL PAGES CONFIRMED : 8 *** SEND *** No. REMOTE STATION START TIME DURATION #PAGES MODE RESULTS 1 3146470442 7-21-93 5 :34PM 4 '43*' 8/ 8 COMPLETED 9600 NOTE : No. : OPERATION NUMBER PD : POLLED BY REMOTE MB : SEND TO MAILBOX TOTAL 0 =04 '4-3" 8 48 : 4800BPS SELECTED EC : ERROR CORRECT SF : STORE & FORWARD RI : RELAY INITIATE PG : POLLING A REMOTE MP : MULTI-POLLING G2 : G2 COMMUNICATION RS : RELAY STATION RM = RECEIVE TO MEMORY 4t 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 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 14 1 5 NEVADA POWER COMPANY, etc., ) ) 16 Plaintiff, ) 17 vs. ) ) ) 1 8 MONSANTO COMPANY, etc., et al., ) ) 19 Defendants. ) _________________________________________________ ) 20 CASE CV-S-89--555-LDG (LRL) PLAINTIFF NEVADA POWER COMPANY'S NOTICE OF TAKING DEPOSITION OF MONSANTO COMPANY PURSUANT TO FRCP 30(b)(6) 21 TO DEFENDANTS MONSANTO COMPANY, a foreign corporation; GENERAL 2 2 ELECTRIC COMPANY, a foreign corporation; WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC 2 3 CORPORATION, a foreign corporation; and to their attorneys of 2 4 record herein: 2 5 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Rule 30(b)(6) of the 2 6 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, plaintiff Nevada Power Company 2 7 will take the deposition of defendant Monsanto Company at 9:00 a.m. 2 8 on July 23, 1993, at the offices of Husch & Eppenberger, 100 North a. 1 Broadway, Suite #1300, St. Louis, Missouri. The deposition will be 2 taken upon oral examination before a Notary Public or before some 3 other officer authorized by law to administer oaths until 4 completed. You are invited to attend and cross-examine. 5 The individual(s) produced shall be the one(s) who can testify 6 concerning the subjects listed on Attachment "A" to this Notice. 7 DATED: July 8 , 1993 BRADLEY & MERRELL RALPH A. BRADLEY PAUL E. MERRELL 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Other Counsel for 17 Plaintiff Nevada Power Company: 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 1 8 DAVID S. McCREA, ESQ. McCREA & McCREA 19 119 South Walnut Street Post Office Box 1310 20 Bloomington, Indiana 47402 Telephone: (812) 336-4840 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 J :\NEV\KCD\DIS\N0TICE.PMK 2 Z 2* 1 FREDERICK M. BARON, ESQ. RUSSELL WILLS BUDD, ESQ. 2 JANE N. SAGINAW, ESQ. BRIAN D. WEINSTEIN, ESQ. 3 PAUL F. DONSBACH, ESQ. BARON & BUDD 4 3102 Oak Lawn Avenue, Suite 1100 Dallas, Texas 75219 5 Telephone: (214) 521-3605 6 MICHAEL T. GALLAGHER, ESQ. CRAIG LEWIS, ESQ. 7 JOHN H. KIM, ESQ. FISHER, GALLAGHER & LEWIS, L.L.P. 8 1000 Louisiana, 70th Floor Houston, Texas 77002 9 Telephone: (713) 654-4433 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 J :\NEV\HCD\DIS\N0TICE.PMK 3 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 I hereby certify that on the , day of July, 1993, the foregoing PLAINTIFF NEVADA POWER COMPANY'S NOTICE OF TAKING 3 DEPOSITION OF DEFENDANT MONSANTO COMPANY PURSUANT TO FRCP 30(b)(6) was served on the following parties: 4 KEY: 5 F - Via fax 6 FE - Via Federal Express H - Via hand delivery 7 Steven R. Kuney, Esq. Williams & Connolly 8 725 12th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20005 9 Fax No.: (202) 434-5029 Attorneys for Defendants MONSANTO COMPANY, GENERAL 10 ELECTRIC COMPANY and WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION 11 Arvin Maskin, Esq. Konrad L. Cailteux, Esq. 12 Weil, Gotshal & Manges 767 Fifth Avenue 13 New York, NY 10153 Fax No.: (212) 310-8007 14 Attorneys for Defendant WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION 15 J. Bruce Alverson, Esq. Alverson, Taylor, Mortensen & Nelson 16 3821 West Charleston Boulevard Las Vegas, NV 89102 17 Fax No.: (702) 385-7000 Attorneys for Defendant GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 18 John L. Thorndal, Esq. 19 Thorndal, Backus, Maupin & Armstrong 1100 East Bridger Avenue 20 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Fax No.: (702) 366-0327 21 Attorneys for Defendants MONSANTO COMPANY and WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION 22 Bruce A. Featherstone, Esq. 2 3 Kirkland & Ellis 1999 Broadway, Suite 4000 2 4 Denver, CO 80202 Fax No.: (303) 291-3300 2 5 Attorneys for Defendant MONSANTO COMPANY 26 27 An employee of BRADLEY & MERRELL 2 8 c/o JONES, JONES, CLOSE & BROWN J:\NEV\HC0\0IS\DIOXIN .PMK 4 ATTACHMENT "A" Produce the person(s) most knowledgable about: 1- Your company's testing, at any time, of PCBs or mixtures containing PCBs, for the presence of polychlorinated dioxin(s) or polychlorinated dibenzofuran(s); the conditions of such tests; the results thereof; and dissemination of any of the foregoing information both within and outside the -company. 2. Your company1s acquisition, at any time, of results of testing of PCBs or mixtures containing PCBs for the presence of polychlorinated dioxin(s) or polychlorinated dibenzofuran(s), as well as any dissemination of any of the foregoing information both within and outside the company. 3. All discussions within the company of any of the information described in categories 1 and 2 above, the hazards and consequences thereof, or what actions the company should or did take in response thereto. 4. All means by which any of the information described in categories 1, 2, and 3 above were either directly communicated to Nevada Power or which were communicated in such a way that Nevada Power should have learned of the information. J :\N E V \H C D \D 1S \D I0X 1N.PMK 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: 7021 385-1655 DATE: 7 ~ - 5 ~ 7 3 _______ TO: John L Thorndal, Esq. FAX#: (702) 366-0327 PHONE # : (702) 366-0622 TO: J. Bruce Alverson, Esq. FAX#: (702) 385-7000 PHONE # : (702) 384-7000 TO: Bruce A. Featherstone, Esq. FAX#: (303) 291-3334 PHONE # : (303) 291-3000 TO: Steven R. Kuney, Esq. FAX#: (202) 434-5029 PHONE # : (202) 434-5843 TO: Arvin Maskin, Esq. FAX#: (212) 310-8007 OR (212) 735-4657 PHONE # : (212) 310-8000 FROM: P a u l (K / i/ u I L . MATTER/MATTER NO.: Nevada Power v. Monsanto, et al., #11927.2 )DOCUMENT(S) DESCRIPTION: SO (b) (<* AlofrCt- CpNUMBER OF PAGES (Including cover page): ~ --___________ THIS TELECOPY IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE ADDRESSEE NAMED ABOVE. IT MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE TELECOPY IN ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY TELEPHONE, DESTROY ALL COPIES, AND DO NOT DISSEMINATE THE INFORMATION TO ANYO NE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. IF YOU EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH THIS TRANSMISSION, Dlease call (702) 385-4202 and ask for: Randv Andreini. Ext. 615 STORE & FORWARD. REPORT DATE/T1ME LOCAL TERM I\AL ID. 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Monsanto CLIENT/MATTER NO.: 11927.2 DOCUMENT(S) DESCRIPTION: C-'ir^ if NUMBER OF PAGES (including cover page): MESSAGE: / ' 'f *' r j c I/ <* /^ 1 c J '/ / 7 THIS TELECOPY IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE ADDRESSEE NAMED ABOVE. IT MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION TH A T IS PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE TELECOPY IN ERROR. PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY BY TELEPHONE, DESTROY ALL COPIES, AND DO NOT DISSEMINATE THE INFORMATION TO ANYONE. TH AN K YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. IF YOU EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH THIS TRANSMISSION, please call (702) 385-4202 and ask for: Operator, Ext. 615