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Parties Involved:
Indian Harbor Insurance Company
Plaintiff
Thomas J. Kearney
Defendant
Meridian Commercial, Inc.
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

INDIAN HARBOR INSURANCE

COMPANY,

 Plaintiff.

 v.

MERIDIAN COMMERCIAL, INC.

and THOMAS J. KEARNEY,

 Defendants.

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No. C 06-6555 WDB

SUPPLEMENTAL ORDER RE POSTHEARING BRIEFING

Pursuant to the Court's Order re Supplemental Briefing, filed February 14,

2007, the parties will submit supplemental briefs addressing, among other things,

whether California courts would consider the policy language at issue in this action to

establish an objective or a subjective standard and/or whether it is unclear what

standard California courts would apply.

The parties' briefs must address American International Specialty Lines Ins.,

Co., v. Continental Casualty Ins., Co., 142 Cal.App. 4th 1342 (2d Dist. 2006) which

appears to support a finding that California courts considering policy language such

as that presented here would apply an objective standard.

We also note that, with respect to a policy provision different than the one

presented here, at least one California court has held that the term "expect" "connotes

subjective knowledge of or belief in an event's probability." Shell Oil Co., v.

Winterthur Swiss Ins., Co., 12 Cal. App. 4th 715, 743 (1st Dist. 1993). Each party

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also must discuss whether, in its view, Shell Oil has any bearing on the issue before

this Court. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 20, 2007 /s/ Wayne D. Brazil 

WAYNE D. BRAZIL

United States Magistrate Judge

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