Court Opinion

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State of Vermont
                                 Superior Court—Environmental Division

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                   ENTRY REGARDING MOTION
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In re Roystan Ridge Extraction Permit                                       Docket No. 121-7-10 Vtec
(Appeal from Town of Newbury DRB)

Title: Requests for an abbreviated and delayed trial schedule (Filings No. 8 and 9)
Filed: November 26, 2012, and January 31, 2013.
Filed By: Appellant Sandra J. Soseos
Response: None

 X Granted (in part)                      X Denied (in part)                    ___ Other
        On November 26, 2013, Appellant Sandra Soseos wrote by letter to the Court, requesting
that the trial be scheduled on an abbreviated basis, specifically for no more than two half days
in a row, with a day of recess before any additional half days of trial are scheduled. A party has
estimated that the de novo trial in this appeal will take three full days.
       Appellant Soseos infers that her request is made necessary, due to a medical condition,
although she confesses that she presently has no primary care physician, but promises to follow
her request with medical records and a doctor’s note. The Court, however, has not received any
substantiation of Appellant’s medical claims.
         Without substantiation, we cannot grant Appellant’s request. The Court will conduct
this trial according to its usual practices: we will begin at 9:00 AM and conclude each day by
4:30 PM. During the trial, we will take a lunch-time break of one hour and 15-minute breaks
during each morning and afternoon session of trial. We do not anticipate any individual trial
session lasting longer than two hours before each break. We hope and expect that this schedule
will allow Appellant Soseos to participate to the extent that she wishes.
         Pursuant to Appellant Soseos’s request and Applicants’ agreement, the Court will delay
this trial until October, 2013. The Court requests that, no later than April 1, 2013, each party
provide a written list of the days they will not be available during the month of October, 2013.

_________________________________________                                   February 6, 2013
       Thomas S. Durkin, Judge                                                  Date
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Date copies sent: ____________                                                  Clerk's Initials: _______
Copies sent to:
  Attorney Colin Robinson for Appellees James B. Roystan and Alma Roystan
  Appellant Sandra J. Soseos
  Attorney Gavin A. Reid for Interested Person Town of Newbury