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Nature of Suit Code: 470
Nature of Suit: Civil (Rico)
Cause of Action: 18:1961 Racketeering (RICO) Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HANA HILSENRATH and OLIVER

HILSENRATH,

Plaintiffs,

v.

EQUITY TRUST (JERSEY) LIMITED, et

al.,

Defendants.

 /

No. C 07-3312 CW

ORDER RE:

PLAINTIFFS' MOTION

TO DISQUALIFY LATHAM

& WATKINS

On August 8, 2007, pro se Plaintiffs Hana and Oliver

Hilsenrath filed a motion to disqualify the law firm of Latham &

Watkins from representing Defendant Equity Trust. Equity Trust has

not responded to the motion. 

Plaintiffs allege that Latham & Watkins represented Oliver

Hilsenrath and U.S. Wireless, the company he founded, between 1999

and 2001 in related litigation. Although Plaintiffs quote minutes

from the March, 2000 meeting of the U.S. Wireless board of

directors stating that the company had engaged Latham & Watkins as

outside counsel and assert that they have a copy of a draft

complaint on Latham & Watkins "electronically watermarked paper," 

they do not provide any of the evidence itself. Motion at 3. 

Plaintiffs do not provide a citation for the case in which Latham &

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Watkins purportedly represented Oliver Hilsenrath nor do they

indicate the jurisdiction in which that case was filed. See Motion

at 2 (indicating that Latham & Watkins represented Oliver

Hilsenrath in "US Wireless et al. v. Janvrin Rayburn and

Crossgar"). The Court is aware of a case titled Janvrin Holdings

v. U.S. Wireless Corp, et al, No. 00-2334 (N.D. Cal.). However,

according to the Court's electronic case filing system, U.S.

Wireless and Oliver Hilsenrath were represented by DLA Piper

Rudnick Gray Cary LLP and Steinhart & Falconer. 

The Hilsenraths state that they have additional confidential

information and documents to support their motion. Plaintiffs may

file any evidence in support of their motion within one week of the

date of this order. If Plaintiffs can establish that the evidence

is confidential, they may seek to file it under seal pursuant to

Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

Defendant Equity Trust shall file an opposition to the motion

to disqualify within two weeks of the date of this order. The

opposition shall address any prior representation of U.S. Wireless

or Oliver Hilsenrath by Latham & Watkins. Plaintiffs may file a

reply three days after that. The matter will be decided on the

papers.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

9/5/07

Dated: ________________________ 

CLAUDIA WILKEN

United States District Judge

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