Bank of New York Mellon v. City of Richmond, California et al

Filing 55

MOTION for Sanctions filed by City of Richmond, California, Gordian Sword LLC, Mortgage Resolution Partners L.L.C., Richmond City Council. Motion Hearing set for 12/13/2013 10:00 AM in Courtroom 6, 17th Floor, San Francisco before Hon. Charles R. Breyer. Responses due by 11/22/2013. Replies due by 12/2/2013. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Stacey Leyton, # 2 Exhibit A to Leyton Decl, # 3 Exhibit B to Leyton Decl, # 4 Exhibit C to Leyton Decl, # 5 Exhibit D to Leyton Decl, # 6 Proposed Order Prop Order)(Leyton, Stacey) (Filed on 11/8/2013)

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1 STEPHEN P. BERZON (SBN 46540) SCOTT A. KRONLAND (SBN 171693) 2 STACEY M. LEYTON (SBN 203827) ERIC P. BROWN (SBN 284245) 3 Altshuler Berzon LLP 4 177 Post Street, Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94108 5 Tel: (415) 421-7151 Fax: (415) 362-8064 6 E-mail: sberzon@altber.com Attorneys for Defendants City of Richmond, Richmond 7 City Council, Mortgage Resolution Partners LLC and 8 Gordian Sword LLC WILLIAM A. FALIK (SBN 53499) 9 BRUCE REED GOODMILLER (SBN 121491) City Attorney 100 Tunnel Rd 10 CARLOS A. PRIVAT (SBN 197534) Berkeley, CA 94705 Assistant City Attorney Tel: (510) 540-5960 11 CITY OF RICHMOND Fax: (510) 704-8803 450 Civic Center Plaza E-mail: billfalik@gmail.com 12 Richmond, CA 94804 Attorney for Defendants Mortgage Resolution Partners LLC 13 Telephone: (510) 620-6509 Facsimile: (510) 620-6518 and Gordian Sword LLC 14 E-mail: bruce_goodmiller@ci.richmond.ca.us Attorneys for Defendants City of Richmond and 15 Richmond City Council 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 17 18 THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (f/k/a The Bank of New York) and THE BANK OF NEW 19 YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. (f/k/a The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.), as 20 Trustees; U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 21 as Trustee; and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY and WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL 22 ASSOCIATION, as Trustees, 23 24 Plaintiffs, Case No. CV-13-3664-CRB DECLARATION OF STACEY M. LEYTON IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR RULE 11 SANCTIONS Date: December 13, 2013 Time: 10:00 a.m. Judge: Honorable Charles R. Breyer Courtroom 6, 17th Floor v. CITY OF RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA, a 25 municipality; RICHMOND CITY COUNCIL; 26 MORTGAGE RESOLUTION PARTNERS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; and 27 GORDIAN SWORD LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, 28 Defendants. DECLARATION OF STACEY M. LEYTON IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR RULE 11 SANCTIONS Case No. CV-13-3664-CRB 1 2 DECLARATION OF STACEY M. LEYTON IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR RULE 11 SANCTIONS 3 I, Stacey M. Leyton, hereby declare as follows: 4 1. I am a partner at the law firm of Altshuler Berzon LLP, and am one of the attorneys for 5 Defendants in the above-captioned matter. I make this declaration in support of Defendants’ 6 motion for Rule 11 sanctions. 7 2. On September 24, 2013, I sent the Rule 11 motion and proposed order to all Plaintiffs’ 8 counsel who were at that time listed as lead attorneys to be noticed for Plaintiffs by electronic mail 9 and first-class mail. Attached as Exhibit A to this declaration is my electronic mail to Plaintiffs’ 10 counsel on September 24, 2013. Attached as Exhibit B to this declaration is a proof of service that 11 we served on September 24, 2013. 12 3. I sent the Rule 11 motion and proposed order to counsel at the Alston & Bird LLP firm 13 by electronic mail on September 24, 2013 and by first-class mail on September 25, 2013. Attached 14 as Exhibit C to this declaration is a proof of service that we served on September 25, 2013. 15 4. The only changes made to the motion and proposed order before filing them today were 16 to add or modify relevant dates. 17 5. Attached as Exhibit D to this declaration is a letter sent from Scott Kronland at my firm 18 to Plaintiffs’ counsel Bronwyn F. Pollack, as well as to the plaintiffs’ counsel in the Wells Fargo 19 case, on August 13, 2013, requesting dismissal of both the Wells Fargo case and this case as 20 unripe. 21 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the foregoing is 22 true and correct to the best of my knowledge. 23 Executed this 8th day of November, 2013, at San Francisco, California. 24 25 /s/Stacey M. Leyton STACEY M. LEYTON 26 27 28 1 DECLARATION OF STACEY M. LEYTON IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR RULE 11 SANCTIONS Case No. CV-13-3664-CRB

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