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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:1 Antitrust Litigation

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December 30, 2010 

VIA ECF and EMAIL

The Honorable Edward M. Chen 

United States District Court 

Northern District of California 

450 Golden Gate Avenue 

Courtroom C, 15th floor 

San Francisco, CA 94102 

Re: In re California Title Insurance Antitrust Cases

 N.D. Cal. Civil Case No. 08-CV-01341 JSW (EMC) 

Dear Magistrate Judge Chen: 

 

The parties to this action jointly submit this letter to update the Court concerning the 

progress of their meet and confer discussions and to request a short extension of time to file their 

joint report with "each party's last and best offer as to [each] disputed item." (Dkt. No. 197). 

Following the hearing before Your Honor on December 22, counsel for all parties participated in 

two lengthy meet and confer sessions, spent significant time crafting proposals consistent with 

the Court’s guidance at the hearing concerning phase one of discovery, and exchanged detailed 

letters proposing compromises on the issues in their discovery motions. As a result of these 

efforts, the parties have been able to significantly narrow their disputes. 

 

Nevertheless, due to a variety of circumstances, the parties have not been able to 

complete the meet and confer process by today. The confluence of the holidays (making some 

counsel and their clients unavailable for various days between December 22nd and today), the 

winter storm in the New York area (which has prevented some counsel from being able to travel 

or work in their offices this week), and the fact that the court reporter informed counsel that a 

transcript of the December 22 hearing cannot be prepared before January 3, 2011 all combined to 

obstruct the completion of the parties' meet and confer efforts by today, the date by which Your 

Honor requested a joint report. (Dkt. No. 197.) As a result, the parties respectfully request an 

extension of time, until Wednesday, January 5, 2011, to submit that report. 

This is the first extension the parties have sought with respect to any matter before your 

Honor. We believe that these additional days will enable the parties to meaningfully complete 

the meet and confer process, with the goal of eliminating or significantly narrowing disputes on 

as many issues as possible. Because some counsel's offices are closed next Monday, we selected 

next Wednesday as the earliest possible date by which the parties can both conclude their meet 

and confer discussions and prepare a joint report to the Court stating their positions on any 

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remaining areas of disagreement. Counsel for plaintiffs and defendants attempted to reach the 

Court by telephone today to make this request, but received a message that the Court is closed 

until next week. 

 

This letter is submitted on behalf of and with the approval of counsel for all parties in this 

action. 

 

 Respectfully submitted, 

 Girard Gibbs LLP 

 Plaintiffs’ Interim Co-Lead Counsel 

 /s/ Elizabeth C. Pritzker 

 Elizabeth C. Pritzker (SBN 146267) 

 601 California Street, 14th Floor 

 San Francisco, CA 94108 

 Telephone: (415) 98104800 

 Fax: (415) 981-4846 

 

 Greenberg Traurig, LLP 

Attorneys for Defendant First American Title 

Insurance Co. 

 /s/ Evan S. Nadel

 Evan S. Nadel (SBN 21330) 

 153 Townsend Street, 8th Floor 

 San Francisco, CA 94107 

 Telephone: (415) 655-1300 

 Fax: (415) 707-2010 

Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP 

Attorneys for Defendants First National Title 

Insurance Company, Chicago Title Company 

and Commonwealth Land Title Insurance 

Company 

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/s/ Patrick T. Shilling 

 Patrick T. Shilling (Pro Hac Vice) 

 425 Lexington Avenue 

 New York, NY 10017 

 Telephone: (212) 455-2000 

 Fax: (212) 455-2502 

 

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP 

Attorneys for Defendant Old Republic National 

Title Insurance Company 

/s/ David G. Greene 

David G. Greene (Pro Hac Vice) 

885 Third Avenue, 26th Floor 

New York, NY 10022 

Telephone: (212) 947-4700 

Fax: (212) 947-1202 

IT IS SO ORDERED that parties may have until 1/5/11 to file the joint letter. 

___________________ 

Edward M. Chen 

U.S. Magistrate Judge 

Dated: 1/3/11

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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