Francis et al v. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

Filing 96

ORDER. The Joint Stipulation Dismissing Defendants Starwood Hotels & Resorts Management Company, Inc., The Sheraton, LLC, Starwood International Licensing Company SARL, Starwood France Holdings, SAS, Societes Des HotelsMeridien SAS, and Meridien SAS Without Prejudice Pursuant To Fed. R. Civ. P41(A)(1)(A)(ii) 95 filed 7/8/2011, is APPROVED. Plaintiffs claims against defendants, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Management Company, Inc., The Sheraton, LLC, Starwood International Licensing Company SARL, Starwood France Holdings, SAS, Societes Des Hotels Meridien SAS, and Meridien SAS, are DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. By Judge Robert E. Blackburn on 7/11/2011. (sah, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
Judge Robert E. Blackburn
Civil Case No. 10-cv-02105-REB-KLM
HAROLD M. “MICKEY” FRANCIS,
TOMMIE H. FRANCIS, and
TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY, as subrogee of the Petroleumplace, Inc.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS WORLDWIDE, INC., d/b/a Le Meridian Heliopolis, a
Maryland corporation,
STARWOOD HOTLES & RESORTS MANAGEMENT COMPANY, INC., a Maryland
corporation,
THE SHERATON, LLC a Delaware limited liability company,
STARWOOD INTERNATIONAL LICENSING COMPANY SARL, a Luxembourg
corporation,
STARWOOD (M) FRANCE HOLDINGS SAS, French corporation,
SOCIETES DES HOTELS MERIDIEN SAS, a French corporation, and
MERIDIEN SAS, a French corporation,
Defendants.
ORDER DISMISSING WITHOUT PREJUDICE DEFENDANTS,
STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS MANAGEMENT COMPANY, INC.,
THE SHERATON, LLC,
STARWOOD INTERNATIONAL LICENSING COMPANY SARL,
STARWOOD FRANCE HOLDINGS SAS,
SOCIETES DES HOTELS MERIDIEN SAS, and
MERIDIEN SAS
Blackburn, J.
The matter is before me on the Joint Stipulation Dismissing Defendants
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Management Company, Inc., The Sheraton, LLC,
Starwood International Licensing Company SARL, Starwood France Holdings, SAS,
Societes Des Hotels Meridien SAS, and Meridien SAS Without Prejudice Pursuant
To Fed. R. Civ. P 41(A)(1)(A)(ii) [#95]1 filed July 8, 2011. After reviewing the stipulation

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“[#95]” is an example of the convention I use to identify the docket number assigned to a specific
paper by the court’s electronic case filing and management system (CM/ECF). I use this convention
throughout this order.

and the file, I conclude that the stipulation should be approved and that plaintiffs’ claims
against defendants, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Management Company, Inc., The
Sheraton, LLC, Starwood International Licensing Company SARL, Starwood France
Holdings, SAS, Societes Des Hotels Meridien SAS, and Meridien SAS, should be
dismissed without prejudice.
THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED as follows:
1. That the Joint Stipulation Dismissing Defendants Starwood Hotels &
Resorts Management Company, Inc., The Sheraton, LLC, Starwood International
Licensing Company SARL, Starwood France Holdings, SAS, Societes Des Hotels
Meridien SAS, and Meridien SAS Without Prejudice Pursuant To Fed. R. Civ. P
41(A)(1)(A)(ii) [#95] filed July 8, 2011, is APPROVED;
2. That plaintiffs’ claims against defendants, Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Management Company, Inc., The Sheraton, LLC, Starwood International Licensing
Company SARL, Starwood France Holdings, SAS, Societes Des Hotels Meridien SAS,
and Meridien SAS, are DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE; and
3. That defendants, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Management Company, Inc., The
Sheraton, LLC, Starwood International Licensing Company SARL, Starwood France
Holdings, SAS, Societes Des Hotels Meridien SAS, and Meridien SAS, are DROPPED as
named parties to this litigation, and the case caption is amended accordingly.
Dated July 11, 2011, at Denver, Colorado.
BY THE COURT:

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