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08-1 0084.022
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
Miami Division

Case Number: 08-10084-CIV-BROWN

PETER HALMOS, INTERNATIONAL


YACHTING CHARTERS, INC., and HIGH
PLAINS CAPITAL,

Plaintiffs,

VS.

INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH


AMERICA and STRICKLAND MARINE
INSURANCE, INC., (f/k/a STRICKLAND
MARINE AGENCY, INC.),

Defendants.

ORDER RE: EX-PARTE EMERGENCY MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER

This matter came before this Court on Plaintiffs' Ex Parte Emergency Motion for Protective
Order (D.E. 386), filed November 6, 2009. The motion sets forth serious allegations and
accusations, and seeks significant relief. This motion resulted in numerous other filings and at least
one emergency hearing. Responses were filed along with hundreds of pages of exhibits, including
declarations and depositions transcripts. No reply was ever filed.
The motion, made without any evidence nor supporting documentation, sought an evidentiary
hearing, and a delay in discovery. While the motion suggests that documentation could be provided
if ordered in camera, in the face of substantial evidence contradicting said motion, none was ever
provided.
The response of INA is most telling. It not only attaches the exhibits noted, supra, but alleges
that plaintiffs had at least some if not all of this information before filing the motion ... allegations
never refbted in a reply. It further seeks sanctions under FRCP 11, and plaintiffs never respond to
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same.
The motion has largely become moot at this time, but to the extent it was not completely
ruled upon, and the Court being otherwise fully advised in the premises, it is hereby ORDERED
AND ADJUDGED as follows:
1. The relief sought in said motion, with the exception of the sealing of same, is DENIED.

1 2. Plaintiffs shall have through and including Friday, April 30,2010 to show good cause,
in writing, why substantial sanctions should not be imposed under FRCP 11 for the filing of this
motion, and further why the Court should not, sua sponte, award said sanctions under either the
inherent power of the court or 18 U.S.C 9 1927 for vexatiously and unreasonably multiplying the
I proceedings herein. Said filing shall be limited to a maximum of eight (8) pages.
DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at Miami, Fkrida, this 2 1st day of April, 20 10.

cc: Counsel of record

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