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JOINT STATUS REPORT REGARDING AUGUST 7 STATUS CONFERENCE...

Case 1:13-cv-00465-MMS Document 77 Filed 08/05/14

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS

FAIRHOLME FUNDS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
THE UNITED STATES, Defendant.
No. 13-465C
Judge Sweeney

JOINT STATUS REPORT REGARDING AUGUST 7 STATUS CONFERENCE
Consistent with this Court’s Orders of April 4, 2014 (Doc. 40) and April 9, 2014 (Doc. 41), the parties hereby respectfully submit this joint status report to alert the Court that they are of the view that a status conference would be appropriate to discuss issues that have arisen in the course of discovery. The following attorneys for the Fairholme Plaintiffs plan to appear in per-son at the August 7 status conference:
• Charles J. Cooper, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
• David H. Thompson, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
• Vincent J. Colatriano, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC

The following attorney for the Fairholme Plaintiffs plans to appear by telephone:
• Christine Cubias, General Counsel, Fairholme Funds, Inc.

The following attorneys for the United States plan to appear in person:
• Kenneth M. Dintzer
• Gregg M. Schwind
• Daniel B. Volk

The following other attorneys plan to appear by telephone:
• Zac Hudson, Bancroft PLLC (representing Fannie Mae)
• Michael Ciatti, King & Spalding (representing Freddie Mac)

Finally, in accordance with the Court’s April 9 Order, counsel for the Fairholme Plain- tiffs has contacted counsel for the plaintiffs in the related cases pending before this Court. The following attorneys intend to listen to the status conference telephonically:
• Michael Barr, Dentons (Arrowood Indemnity Corp. v. United States, No. 13-698)

• RobertM. Roseman, Spector Roseman Kodroff & Willis (WashingtonFederal v. United States, No. 13-385)

• Jennifer Fountain Connolly, Hagens Berman (WashingtonFederal v. United States, No. 13-385)

• Noah Schubert, Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP (Fisher v. United States, No. 13-608, Reid v. United States, No. 14-152)

• Miranda Kolbe, Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP (Fisher v. United States, No. 13-608, Reid v. United States, No. 14-152)

• Ed Haber, Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP (Fisher v. United States, No. 13-608, Reid v. United States, No. 14-152)

Date: August 5, 2014 Respectfully submitted, STUART F. DELERY
Assistant Attorney General
s/ Robert E. Kirschman, Jr.
ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR.
Director
s/ Kenneth M. Dintzer
KENNETH M. DINTZER
Acting Deputy Director
Commercial Litigation Branch
U.S. Department of Justice

s/ Charles J. Cooper
Charles J. Cooper
Counsel of Record for Plaintiffs
COOPER &KIRK, PLLC
1523 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
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Of counsel:
Vincent J. Colatriano