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Nature of Suit Code: 120
Nature of Suit: Marine Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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LAW OFFICES OF 

DAVID M. SALENTINE ________________ 

465 CALIFORNIA STREET 

SUITE 400 

TELEPHONE (415) 982-1325 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 USA FACSIMILE (415) 982-1923 

 EMAIL: salentinesfcargolaw@sbcglobal.net 

 EFAX: (415) 358-4781 

March 30, 2006 

Honorable Charles R. Breyer 

United States District Judge 

United States Courthouse 

450 Golden Gate Avenue 

San Francisco, CA 904104 

Re: Mark Hamerdinger v. Pennisi Brothers, Inc., and F/V IRENE’S WAY 

Case No. C04-05490 CRB 

My Ref. 160.002 

Dear Judge Breyer: 

This matter is set for a bench trial before you commencing on Monday, April 10, 2006, at 8:30 

a.m. The pretrial conference is set for next Tuesday, April 4, at 2:30 p.m. I write to request that I be 

allowed to attend the pretrial conference by telephone from Chicago where I must be at that time 

because of exigent circumstances. 

I am referring counsel in litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of 

Illinois entitled Sompo Japan Insurance, Inc., v. Nippon Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd., Case No. 02-C-09311. 

The case is assigned to United States District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow and is set for trial to 

commence on April 5, 2006. My local counsel for plaintiff Sompo in that litigation is Dennis Minichello, 

Esq., of Chicago. Mr. Minichello was to have either tried the case as lead counsel or assisted me as 

lead counsel (depending on resolution of other litigations, including the matter before you). Mr. 

Minichello has been struck ill from heart disease and has just last week undergone emergency 

quadruple bypass surgery from which he is now recovering. As a consequence of that, I must now try 

the matter before District Judge Lefkow alone. I am scheduled to travel to Chicago for that purpose on 

April 4, 2006, arriving there in the early afternoon Chicago time (mid-morning San Francisco time). I 

can attend the pretrial conference before you by telephone from Mr. Minichello’s office in Chicago if 

such accommodation can be made in these circumstances. 

I apologize for bringing this matter to you so late. But such were the circumstances. I had to 

fly back to Chicago on an emergency basis late last week to cover for Mr. Minichello at the final pretrial 

conference before Judge Lefkow on Friday. Then I returned here to go straight in to a trial before 

District Judge Jeffrey S. White on Tuesday. 

Very truly yours, 

 /s/ 

David M. Salentine 

Cc: Ronald K. Losch, Esq. 

Cc: Michael A. Barcott, Esq.; Michael H. Williamson, Esq. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

March 31, 2006

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