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Parties Involved:
ConocoPhillips Company
Counter-claimant
Houtan Petroleum, Inc
Counter-defendant

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CONOCOPHILLIPS’ REQUEST FOR REASSIGNMENT TO NEW MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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GLYNN & FINLEY, LLP 

CLEMENT L. GLYNN, Bar No. 57117 

ADAM FRIEDENBERG, Bar No. 205778 

One Walnut Creek Center 

100 Pringle Avenue, Suite 500 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596 

Telephone: (925) 210-2800 

Facsimile: (925) 945-1975 

Email: cglynn@glynnfinley.com

afriedenberg@glynnfinley.com

Attorneys for Defendant and Counter-Plaintiff 

ConocoPhillips Company 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HOUTAN PETROLEUM, INC. 

Plaintiff, 

vs.

CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY, a Texas 

corporation and DOES 1 through 10, 

Inclusive

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Case No. 3:07-cv-5627 SC

CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY’S 

REQUEST FOR REASSIGNMENT TO 

NEW UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE 

JUDGE FOR SETTLEMENT 

CONFERENCE

 At the Pretrial Conference on February 6, 2008, the Court ordered the parties to complete 

a settlement conference before a United States Magistrate Judge. Judge Larson thereafter 

scheduled the matter for settlement conference on March 12, 2008. (Docket No. 86.) 

ConocoPhillips is, of course, pleased to proceed before Judge Larson, but understands that Judge 

Larson is unavailable to conduct a settlement conference prior to March 12, 2008. 

ConocoPhillips believes it is important that the parties complete the settlement 

conference as soon as possible for a number of reasons. Most importantly, in light of the 

vacation of the trial date, Houtan Petroleum remains in possession of ConocoPhillips’ equipment 

and improvements, without paying rent, and in direct defiance of the Court’s order denying 

injunctive relief (Docket No. 18). With every day that passes, Houtan Petroleum continues to 

help itself to injunctive relief the Court properly denied. As a result, and as this Court has 

DENIED

Case 3:07-cv-05627-SC Document 89 Filed 02/21/08 Page 1 of 2
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DENIED

Judge Samuel Conti

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