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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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PLAINTIFF’S NOTICE OF FILING CORRECTED

STATEMENT REGARDING ADR 1

Edward O. Comitz (Pro Hac Vice)

Patrick Stanley (Pro Hac Vice)

(ecomitz@bffb.com)

BONNETT, FAIRBOURN, FRIEDMAN & BALINT, P.C.

2901 North Central Avenue, Suite 1000

Phoenix, AZ 85012

Telephone: (602) 274-1100

Facsimile: (602) 274-1199

Tonna K. Farrar (#237605)

(tfarrar@bffb.com)

BONNETT, FAIRBOURN, FRIEDMAN & BALINT, P.C.

501 W. Broadway, Suite 1450

San Diego, California 92101

Telephone: (619) 756-7095

Facsimile: (602) 798-5879

Attorneys for Plaintiff

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

 DAL BURNS, ) Case No. C07-0122 SI

Plaintiff, )

)

vs. )

) PLAINTIFF’S NOTICE OF FILING 

UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ) CORRECTED STATEMENT REGARDING 

OF AMERICA ) ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

)

Defendant. ) (Jury Trial Demanded)

____________________________________)

Plaintiff, Dal Burns (“Burns”), by and through undersigned counsel, hereby files a corrected

statement regarding ADR to accurately state the current status of the parties’ discussion with respect to

Alternative Dispute Resolution.

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Order not signed by Judge Illston. 

Counsel need to arrange for an ADR conference 

with the ADR dept. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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A

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Susan Illston

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PLAINTIFF’S NOTICE OF FILING CORRECTED

STATEMENT REGARDING ADR 2

Defendant filed a document with this Court, which is titled on the Docket as “STIPULATION

and Proposed Order selecting Early Neutral Evaluation” as the method of ADR to be employed. Plaintiff

has made it abundantly clear to Defendant that he has no interest in pursuing Early Neutral Evaluation

pursuant to ADR L.R. 5. Instead, Plaintiff expressed an interest in participating in mediation, which

request was rejected by Defendant. 

In that the parties could not agree on an ADR process, counsel for Plaintiff asked counsel for

Defendant to sign a “Notice for Need for an ADR Phone Conference.” See e-mail attached hereto as

Exhibit A. Without hearing back from counsel for Defendant, counsel for Plaintiff then received an email Notice from the Court entitled, “STIPULATION and Proposed Order selecting Early Neutral

Evaluation,” which attached Plaintiff’s request for an ADR Phone Conference as a secondary document,

and which failed to address Plaintiff’s position regarding mediation. Both the Docket Entry and filed

Notice make it appear that Plaintiff has agreed to Early Neutral Evaluation, which is most certainly not

the case. The “Docket Text” on the Notice, as stated above, describes a “STIPULATION and Proposed

Order selecting Early Neutral Evaluation.” The first page of the document itself, to which Plaintiff’s

counsel never agreed or signed, provides that “[t]he parties agree to participate in the following ADR

process” followed by a check mark next to Early Neutral Evaluation. 

While Plaintiff will give Defendant’s counsel the benefit of the doubt that this was merely an

oversight, Plaintiff wants to make it abundantly clear, both to the Court and opposing counsel, that it has

not and will not agree to Early Neutral Evaluation as the method of ADR to be used in this matter, and

that he further requests an ADR Phone Conference.

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PLAINTIFF’S NOTICE OF FILING CORRECTED

STATEMENT REGARDING ADR 3

DATED this 20thday of March, 2007.

BONNETT, FAIRBOURN, FRIEDMAN

 & BALINT, P.C.

By: /s/ Patrick T. Stanley 

Edward O. Comitz

Patrick T. Stanley

2901 North Central Avenue, Suite 1000

Phoenix, AZ 85012

BONNETT, FAIRBOURN, FRIEDMAN

 & BALINT, P.C.

Tonna K. Farrar

501 West Broadway, Suite 1450

San Diego, California 92101

Attorneys for Plaintiff

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PLAINTIFF’S NOTICE OF FILING CORRECTED

STATEMENT REGARDING ADR 4

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on the 20th day of March, 2007, I electronically transmitted the attached

document to the Clerk’s Office using the CM/ECF system for filing and transmittal of a Notice of

Electronic Filing to the following CM/ECF registrants:

Thomas M. Herlihy 

John T. Burntie

KELLY, HERLIHY & KLEIN LLP

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 2500

San Francisco, CA 94104-4798

herlihy@kelher.com

Jtb@kelher.com

Attorneys for Defendant

 /s/ Elizabeth A. Klatt 

Elizabeth A. Klatt

Secretary for Patrick T. Stanley

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