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Exhibit 13
FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 11/26/2012 INDEX NO. 602825/2008
NYSCEF DOC. NO. 3346-2 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 11/26/2012
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK: TRIAL TERM PART 3
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MBIA INSURANCE CORPORATION,
Plaintiff,
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COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., COUNTRYWIDE SECURITIES CORP., COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL CORP., COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING., L.P., and BANK OF AMERICA CORP.,
Defendants.
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November 15, 2012 60 Centre Street New York, New York 10007
B E F 0 R E: THE HONORABLE EILEEN BRANSTEN, Justice.
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McCUSKER ANSELMI ROSEN CARVELLI Attorneys at Law 210 Park Avenue, Suite 301 Florham Park, New Jersey 07952 BY: BRUCE S. ROSEN, ESQ.
MBIA INSURANCE CORPORATION Plaintiff 113 King Street Armonk, New York 10504 BY: JONATHAN C. HARRIS, ESQ.
Deputy General Counsel
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QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN, LLP Attorneys at Law 51 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor New York, New York 10010 BY: MANISHA M. SHETH, ESQ.
SARAH E. TROMBLEY, ESQ.
GOODWIN PROCTOR LLP Attorneys at Law 620 Eighth Avenue New York, New York 10018-1405 BY: MARK HOLLAND, ESQ.
SARAH HEATON CONCANNON, ESQ. DAVID FREEBURG, ESQ.
O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP Attorneys at Law 7 Times Square New York, New York 10036 BY: DANIEL L. CANTOR, ESQ.
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THE COURT: All right. We will begin.
Before we begin I have a statement to make
which leads me to read my statement.
Recently I hired a new principal court
attorney. As you know, Mr. Hardman went on to better
things, according to him. I don't know if I'll ever
agree. Her name is Kelly Mauceri, M-A-U-C-E-R-I. She
comes to my chambers from the law firm of Patterson
Belknap Webb & Tyler.
I am disclosing Ms. Mauceri's work before me
since Patterson Belknap represents monoline insurers
Ambac in another case before me. As you all know this
Ambac case, Ambac v. Countrywide, involves a suit
brought against Countrywide and Bank of America
alleging breaches of representations and warranties
made in an insurance agreement pertaining to
securitizations.
As you likely know, the Ambac case is the
most recently filed, and, therefore, the youngest case
of the three securitization cases that remain before
me, MBIA, FGIC and Ambac. We had Sakura, but that
settled. Ambac is in its very preliminary stages.
Comparing the cases, I would say Ambac is
like an eight year old while MBIA is a 21 year old
graduating from college, a precocious 21 year old
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graduating from college. The cases are in very
different stages in their development, and Ambac trails
far behind them.
Since Ms. Mauceri comes from Patterson
Belknap, in an exercise of caution I asked the Advisory
Committee on Judicial Ethics for an opinion on Ms.
Mauceri's ability to work on securitization cases
pending before me. Indeed, as I decided even before
Ms. Mauceri began working with me, she will not be
working on the Ambac v. Countrywide litigation brought
by Patterson Belknap. I think that's very clear.
However, for this litigation and the litigation brought
by FGIC against Countrywide I have consulted with the
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics.
I sought advice from the Advisory Committee
as to whether Ms. Mauceri may work on MBIA and FGIC
cases against Countrywide given that she worked at
Patterson Belknap, but, this is very important, never
worked on behalf of MBIA or FGIC, and never actually
worked on the Ambac case at Patterson Belknap. I mean,
she knew people who were working on Ambac cases, but
she did not personally work on the Ambac case. And,
also, what I think is very important, is that she
didn't attend any of the planning meetings involved in
the Ambac case at Patterson Belknap.
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She has never worked on any litigation
brought by Patterson Belknap versus Countrywide and
Bank of America. However, Ms. Mauceri did work on a
breach of contract suit involving securitization
brought by a different monoline insured, Assured
Guaranty, against a different bank, the bank, DB
Structured Products. This case is pending before a
different judge, and to my knowledge neither the
plaintiff in that matter nor the defendant has any MBIA
related cases pending before me. I have been told
informally yesterday, I received an informal letter and
also I talked to Judge Marlow and other members of the
Advisory Committee that were involved in the decision
making on my inquiry towards them, I have been told
informally by the Advisory Committee that there is no
bar to Ms. Mauceri working on the MBIA and FGIC matter.
This decision as to whether she works on these cases
for me is a matter which is actually conducive with my
personal discretion.
I await the formal letter from the Committee
conveying this opinion. Unfortunately approval of the
formal letter has taken some additional time, a great
deal of additional time, given the logistic issues due
to the hurricane. That is the reason why there is not
a formal letter today.
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However, I wanted to let the parties know as
soon as possible that I intend for Ms. Mauceri to work
on this case and on the FGIC case.
Barring anything unforeseen and hearing any
arguments that may change my mind, I believe that I can
remain fair and impartial to the parties in this
matter. I also believe that Ms. Mauceri, having not
worked on these cases or on behalf of the parties in
these litigations, can be my principal court attorney
for the MBIA and FGIC matters.
When I get a formal letter from the Advisory
Committee I will disseminate it to the parties. The
letter will also be made public. I will probably get
the letter, I think, before its publication in the Law
Journal.
I believe you get a formal letter.
what number it is. It is Opinion Number
keep it on your radar screen. I have it
I know
so you can
well, it's
one of those things. We will have to e-mail it to you.
I have it upstairs.
with me.
I'm sorry. I meant to have it
The informal letter says -- actually, I know
there are a couple of little detail problems. They
called Ms. Mauceri a junior associate. She was not a
junior associate, she was a senior associate. So, I
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mean, those kind of little details are of tremendous
importance to the parties and probably of no importance
to anybody else.
So hopefully with these corrections we will
go on. That's what I wanted to let you know.
Ms. Mauceri is not sitting next to me because
the formal letter has not come down, but I think
between now and the next time you come back there will
be, I think, an opportunity, if you so wish, to make
whatever comments. But, as I say, my inclination is, I
can't see any problems with that, but, you know,
obviously you will want to discuss it with your clients
and give it some thought.
With that, on to sealing. I must say, we
spent a good deal of time on sealing so far. I know
all of you made your best efforts for me to get all of
the documents that I needed, et cetera, et cetera. You
really did do a good job doing that.
I have read your memoranda of law, I have
read your motions, I read Bloomberg's response to it,
and I have come to certain decisions already which I
think will facilitate continuing working on the
subject. There is going to be -- there are issues that
will not be resolved today, but we will go into what we
need to do in order to get me to the point where I can
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make decisions on it.
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So let's start at the beginning. Again, we
have written it out so I am actually going to read
somewhat a decision on to the record because I think
that's the easiest way instead of me writing a formal
decision. We may do a formal decision later on, but I
think that what I need to say now will really obviate a
lot of the piles and piles of questions that we have
out there.
Not that I want to quote from the federal
judge, but today there was a headline in the Law
Journal that says that -- this is on another case
obviously -- it said there was a ''stew of material.'' I
don't think of it as a stew. I think of it as a
goulash.
Going on: The parties have philosophical
differences regarding the scope of documents that would
be placed under seal in this case. As a framework for
our discussion today the court points out that there is
''a broad constitutional proposition arising from the
First and Sixth Amendments as applied to the state by
the Fourteenth Amendment that the public as well as the
press is generally entitled to have access to court
proceedings.'' Quoting from the Danco Labs, Ltd. v.
Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter, Ltd. at 274 A.D.2d 1
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22 NYCRR 216.1 requires a showing of good
cause for the court to seal documents in whole or in
part. I think in another case the standard is
basically a compelling standard. In the court's point
of view compelling is basically higher than practically
beyond a reasonable doubt. So we are talking about a
very high standard that the court has to find in order
to actually seal any document whatsoever in an open
proceeding.
Here I want to make the differentiation that
when we were doing discovery and we work under a
confidentiality agreement put forth basically as
amended, put forth by the city bar, that particular
document has worked very well for all the extensive
amount of discovery that has occurred in this case.
But now we are at the summary judgment level which is a
level that requires the court to consider public
documents. Now that's the reason why we are here
today.
Nonetheless, the parties and the courts are
in agreement that certain information should be
redacted from public filings to protect the privacy of
borrowers who are not parties to this litigation and
they include the borrowers names, the borrowers social
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security numbers, and the borrowers addresses.
As to the borrowers occupation, the parties
dispute whether the borrowers occupation should be made
public. Countrywide argues that the borrowers
occupation should be redacted, while MBIA and Bloomberg
argue they should be revealed to the public.
My decision is as follows: There is a strong
public interest in the borrowers occupations, but such
information should not be so specific as to reveal the
identity of the individual borrowers. For example, if
a borrower is a sole owner of a business or if the
borrower's job is described in great detail, such
information should be modified in the following manner:
Only a general job title, type of business and
reasonably specific geographical information is
necessary. All other information may be redacted.
Let me give you an example. There were a
couple of examples that I think were in the Countrywide
briefs, but let me give you an example. Instead of
saying Borrower A is a receptionist at a clothing
manufacturing plant in Boone County, West Virginia. By
the way, I looked it up, Boone County, et cetera.
That's what you would have to do to see if the
population of Boone County is such that saying that a
person is a receptionist at a clothing manufacturing
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plant would be sufficiently unspecific. It just does
not work. There is not going to be an opportunity for
anyone of us to go through that exercise. You can't
say to me, look, I took the geographic there are
1,000 clothing manufacturing plants in Boone County.
Therefore, saying she is a receptionist at one of them
would be sufficient. You wouldn't be able to identify
that particular person.
So what I suggest we do is Borrower A is a
receptionist at a manufacturing plant in southern West
Virginia. That gives, I think, a sufficient amount of
information as to that person's occupation that you
don't have enough specificity. I mean, I have a couple
of others examples. If you want me to, we can go over,
try to work out a few examples to give us a good
framework of what we are talking about in terms of what
I want in terms of specificity. But, also, I want to
make sure that you are not going to be able to through
that description find out it's Miss So-and-So, age 46,
living at such an address. That I don't want to
happen.
So with that, we will work out that. And, of
course, I would say to you that I think you can
probably work it out, the two of you, three of you,
work it out so that we can have that kind of
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occupational description.
I mean, for example, if you took in
Manhattan, if you said that person was a receptionist
at a manufacturing plant in Manhattan, this is no
longer the manufacturing capital of the western world.
I am not saying there is not a lot of manufacturing
going on, but it just isn't. It's not even as though
it's in Brooklyn. So, again, you have to -- I think, I
mean, yes, there are a lot of clothing manufacturing
businesses in Manhattan, but I don't think it's
sufficient to really -- again, I want it a little
broader. But at the same time the idea that that
person is a receptionist, that's the key issue. The
key issue is the nature of that person who got the
loan, the nature of the occupation.
Now, with that in mind, we get to
Countrywide's 150 voluminous spreadsheets which, thank
you, you did provide me in the end, and I did take a
look at them. I didn't look at many of them, but I did
take a quick look at what you are talking about.
Countrywide asserts that 150 voluminous
spreadsheets are peppered with personal data that would
be difficult to redact; therefore, the spreadsheets
should be sealed in their entirety. I didn't -- you
know, I couldn't spend, because it came in very late, I
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couldn't spend too much time on them, but my idea -
let me ask a question.
Off the record.
(Discussion off the record.)
THE COURT: It is my understanding of these
spreadsheets that, yes, indeed we have the name of the
person, the next column is the address of the person,
the next column is the social security number of the
person. I don't know if I am doing it in the right
order. Maybe the first column is the loan number, then
going forward.
It is my view, and now I am not saying it's
entirely everything that has to be done, but it is my
view that you can, with my decision as to names and
addresses and social securities, that you can eradicate
those entire columns. I may not be a computer wizard,
but you can eradicate the entire column. Maybe that's
a doable event. Whatever happens, it would have to be
a doable event. We will have to be able to, indeed,
clean up these spreadsheets, personal data, and then,
again, I have not quite finished with all the decisions
I made, maybe we can come back to the spreadsheet. I
know there is a mechanism by which we can work with it.
After that is said and done, and it is
cleaned up, if it's personal, with the personal
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information, it's a public document.
There is nothing, nothing, despite the hard
work it will be, there is nothing that makes it a
proprietary interest of Countrywide or Bank of America
to not disseminate the information.
But, again, we have to clean it up. I don't
know if this is true, I am not a computer maven, but I
think you can eradicate the entire columns.
Okay.
MR. HOLLAND: I am told it depends on the
document.
THE COURT: From what we looked at, we
looked at some like that. The others I am not exactly
sure how it's organized. But, anyway, that's what I
want.
Now, we get to the loan numbers. Very
important. Loan numbers need not be revealed in their
entirety. The parties are to identify loan numbers
using the number of the securitization and the last
four digits of the loan number. That way we have some
degree of identification.
I mean, obviously if we eradicate all the
other information you have to have something that makes
it unique to securitization one or securitization 15,
and also involving that particular loan number. So my
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thought was this: If you have securitization number
one, loan number 12345678, that will become 1-5678.
It's a bit like we do with social security numbers. If
for the same securitization the last four digits of the
number are repeated more than once, which it could
happen because of the number of loan documents
involved, the parties will add an A, dash A, dash B,
dash C, to the end of the last four digits of the loan
number.
I had one case when I was in matrimonials
where we went up to 32 As. In other words, it went A,
B, C all the way up to Z. Then we started all over
again. There was double A, et cetera. At one point we
had a couple of numbers, four As or eight As or
whatever. Finally we decided, I came up one day and
said this is ridiculous, we will do 10-A. That was the
tenth series of A, B, C. It's doable even with the
numbers repeating each other.
Now we get to the issue of witnesses names,
names and job titles of witnesses that are being used
in the summary judgment motions. Now, again, remember,
this has to do with the summary judgment motions. It's
the same thing, if you are in the medical malpractice
environment, if you are using a doctor's -- I will get
the experts in a second-- if you are using a doctor's
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name to tell me that there was a deviation from the
medical standards in the community, that doctor has to
be identified. If you are using a witness, a witness
that you are saying, since there is nothing off the
record or anything like that, that witness in the
summary judgment motion has to be identified the same
as if you called that witness to the witness stand,
because, after all, summary judgment is in lieu of
trial. That's the idea of it, right? It's defined
that there are no facts to be tried by a jury in this
case. Likelihood of success, that's a different issue
because there are lot of issues, but, anyway, that's
what it is.
And if a witness comes to court and raises
his or her left hand -- right hand, and says they are
going to tell the truth, that person then identifies
themself on the record with their name and address. At
that point, you know, the address and name, that person
is a public person, in that sense.
In the same way we will do that for, for
witnesses or materials that you will be using in your
summary judgment motions. So if you use a witness
that -- if you are quoting from an affidavit or
deposition of those witnesses in conjunction with the
summary judgment motions, that name and job title of
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the witness must be revealed. An affidavit or
deposition submitted in support of a motion for summary
judgment is akin to the trial, just as I stated.
No other personal information of that witness
need be disclosed. Names and job titles of witnesses
who have not submitted affidavits need not be disclosed
at this time because they are not part of the summary
judgment motion.
When we get to trial preparation, that's a
different issue. If and when we do get to trial
preparation, we are now ready, and I do a disclosure,
and I say you have to disclose the names of witnesses
you will be calling, then you have to give me names,
addresses -- not addresses names, job titles and
basically what that person will be saying.
One thing: I want to make sure -- I don't
want ten persons saying the same thing just because we
want cumulative type of information. That's why a
brief description of what that person will be saying is
important at the trial stage. But, again, this is
witnesses.
Experts: Experts even in a summary judgment
motion, names, job titles and business experts,
addresses of expert witnesses, will also be made public
because experts are different from ordinary witnesses.
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Then came an issue of documents protected by
confidentiality orders issued by other courts. And
that came out really basically -- what happened is that
you had another case, and a deposition was taken in the
other case, and now you subpoenaed, whoever did, each
side subpoenaed the deposition testimony, and brought
it into this case so that you didn't have to go,
re-depose the person. So when it was brought in it
was, that deposition was covered by a confidentiality
order by another court. However, when it was
transformed into one of my documents, because now it
became part of this case, it is my confidentiality
order that protected that document, not the other
judge's, because while I have great respect for any
judge in the whole world, especially any other fellow
state judge or federal judge, whoever they are,
nevertheless, it is the confidentiality order that I
have in this case that protects whatever documents.
So, therefore, the idea that you say to me,
oh, you can't see this, this document should remain
sealed because there is a confidentiality order in
place through another judge, does not hold water with
this court. The confidentiality agreement is my
confidentiality agreement, and, so, therefore, we have
to go through the same exercise as we would had it been
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produced pursuant to this particular case in full.
Just to give it another explanation: Once
documents were subpoenaed and deemed produced they fell
under the confidentiality order I issued in this case.
The parties must then provide a compelling reason to
seal each document that they believe should remain
confidential. So that's the rubric there.
Now we get into more complex areas, and there
really are three of them, three different categories.
By the way, before I get into the next
portion of it, I think that those guidelines will
reduce the number of documents that eventually the
court will have to review in order to make a decision
on whether or not something should be sealed or not
sealed. So I think that if you go through those
parameters, you have reduced the pile substantially,
substantially, because even glancing at any one of your
documents, as, an example, taking the Countrywide
one -- no, this is not Countrywide, this is -- I am
talking randomly -- I want to take not an agreement
I see a lot of them are already agreed to which is
great, I am happy when they are agreed. Here's one.
All right.
This is in the Countrywide spreadsheet that
was on a disk that finally carne out. Written up it's
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better. Document number, roll number 712 comes from
Sheth affidavit, Exhibit 200. It's an e-mail from
Sharif Abdul (ph.) to, etcetera, etcetera. I will
not get into too much. It's an e-mail. It has a Bates
number. The party proposing the initial designation is
Countrywide, and what Countrywide wants is to redact
the whole paragraph beginning with ''Cindy'' on page one.
The reason why, proprietary. MBIA disagrees. They
want, MBIA wants it to be public. And the status of
that particular one is no agreement.
Now I have not gone through and found that
first paragraph. I don't know why, just reading this,
apart from a general statement, I don't know why that
first paragraph should be redacted. This is just not
sufficient for me to make a decision.
To say to me proprietary information in the
nature of current and future business strategy in
disclosure which will give competitors an unearned
advantage does not do it. It needs to be much more
detailed for me to actually come to a reasonable
conclusion, for me to come to a conclusion. Never mind
that I could come up with a conclusion, that's not the
issue. The issue is not that I could figure out a
mechanism to say, yes, that is proprietary and
accepted. It does not provide me with a compelling
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reason to do it. It's too broad; it's not sufficiently
detailed for me to come to a decision that this is a
compelling reason for me to do it.
I can think of a dozen reasons. I will not
get into that document and read it out loud and make
the analysis, but I can think of why it might be, but,
then again, the first paragraph of an e-mail, I don't
know, I really don't know. And, as I say, that won't
do. That will not be a reason for me to give you a
sealing order.
Now getting into the testimony related to
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financial information: Countrywide seeks to seal
testimony related to Countrywide's current
profitability, shareholder equity, and legal fees and
Bank of America's internal capital management
strategies. Countrywide asserts this information is
proprietary and could potentially ''cause Countrywide
competitive harm."
Countrywide claims that the revelation of
these transcripts would harm Countrywide and Bank of
America, but Countrywide does not sufficiently explain
how and why such harm would incur. Countrywide must
flesh out these arguments in greater detail to show
good cause for sealing documents pursuant to 22 NYCRR
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216.1. So that's problem number one.
Problem number two: Documents pertaining to
Countrywide's repurchase process. In this motion
Countrywide also represents that documents and portions
of documents and transcripts related to Countrywide's
proprietary repurchase process should be sealed.
Countrywide does not provide much explanation as to the
types of documents and transcripts it seeks to seal.
However, in considering this request it strikes me that
Countrywide is discussing three distinct categories of
repurchase related documents each of which presents a
different analysis: One, documents related to MBIA's
repurchase requests to Countrywide for the
securitizations at issue in this case. Two, documents
related to repurchase requests from other entities to
Countrywide for other securitizations. And, three,
documents discussing general procedures, processes and
principles related to repurchase requests sent to
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As to the first category, which is documents
related to MBIA's repurchase requests, these documents
involved disputes central to this case including
whether Countrywide complied with contractual
repurchase remedies in the operative documents.
Countrywide claims that disclosure of these documents
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will cause Countrywide competitive harm. However,
Countrywide has not provided a sufficiently detailed
analysis of these documents, of how these documents
might harm it, nor has Countrywide weighed any
potential harm against the public interest.
Again, remember that it's always a balancing
thing, it is public interest versus compelling need,
compelling need for Countrywide to have it sealed.
Very, very important, both very important. But it's
compelling. That's what is missing in everything that
we have seen so far.
As to the second category which is documents
related to repurchase requests from other entities,
these documents will be sealed for the purpose of this
motion for summary judgment. While there may be a
public interest in the disclosure of these documents,
they concern securitizations that are not directly at
issue in this case. I, therefore, do not feel that I
should order those documents to be made public at this
time.
I will be open to revisiting this issue on a
document-by-document basis if necessary before trial.
I don't know who sealed them or who has not sealed
them, and what status they are in before other judges,
whether arguments have been made before the other
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judges, what the decisions of the other judges were.
It's just a whole -- it is just, I think, asking this
court to indeed undertake an exercise that's not
appropriate for this court to do at this time. I'm not
sealed on that. I am not saying that I will never
consider it, but I just think I need a lot more
information to be able to balance my stepping in on
somebody else's purview before, and making a decision
that affects them or her and not having a good basis
for it. So at this point I am sealing it. It remains
sealed until we certainly discuss it a good deal
further.
The third category of documents discussing
general procedures, processes and principles related to
the repurchase requests sent to Countrywide will not be
sealed if those documents do not reveal trade secrets
or other proprietary business information belonging to
Countrywide. And in this series of categories
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documents will reveal trade secrets or cause
competitive harm to Countrywide. Once again,
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assessing those documents against any harm to
Countrywide. So in a sense it falls a little bit -
it's a different category, but it falls in the same
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That in a sense ends -- I have other things
to talk about, about resubmitting the motions, Bank of
America's sealing motions and summary judgment motions,
but they are more timely.
Hold on a second.
(Discussion off the record.)
THE COURT: Yes.
I have talked quite a long time. I am
interested if you have any comments, any discussion.
I have to say that we started with 63, motion
sequence 63, that was Countrywide's, followed by 64,
which was MBIA's. So by order of sequence, we will go
with Countrywide first.
MS. CONCANNON: Thank you.
The court obviously spent an enormous amount
of time working through these issues. We really do
feel with the guidance you provided that MBIA and
Countrywide should be able to work out agreements with
regard to the remaining documents.
Just to put this in context, there are 1,118
documents and exhibits that have been relied upon by
one or the other party in connection with summary
judgment. The other 640 of those are already public,
they have been docketed through the court system.
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Another 45 have been made public with very minor
redactions. It's that remaining 400 universe, the
majority of which are those borrower-type documents,
that with the instructions the court has provided we
should be able to reach relatively quick agreements
with regard to.
The really only thing I wanted to speak to
was with regard to the logistics of the loan number
modifications that the court has proposed. I think for
trial what the court has described is absolutely
correct, and, in fact, is what Judge Rakoff recently
did with the Flagstar trial which just completed a few
days ago.
For summary judgment purposes, to put this in
context, those voluminous spreadsheets often have a
borrower loan number in every single line.
Mr. Freeburg informs me that there could be hundreds of
thousands of loan numbers that would need to be
modified across the documents.
We do believe that under New York law a loan
number is a bank account number. There is a risk that
a borrower could be identified through this number.
There is an obligation to keep it confidential both
under New York law and federal and state Privacy Acts.
But for these purposes, concentrating on the
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1,100 plus documents that are currently in front of the
court, it seems that without undue prejudice to the
public's right of access to this information we can
simply redact off the loan numbers as we have in the
briefs that have been submitted to the court without
them.
THE COURT: How do you identify -- the
reason why I came up with this one, with the last four
numbers is, how do you identify that loan versus
another loan?
MS. CONCANNON: Well, we could, your Honor,
for the briefs and also the 19-a statements submitted
to the court use the methodology that you proposed with
regard to those documents, and those are the loans that
are really being discussed and relied upon in
connection with summary judgment.
My concern is with regard to these voluminous
exhibits where no party has referenced lines 1 through
1,000, but that's what is in the exhibit. If that
particular loan is not being discussed it would be far
more administratively possible to expedite the
publication of these documents to the public if we can
simply redact out that information.
THE COURT: All right.
Is there any problem with that?
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MS. SHETH: Yes, your Honor. We have a
strong objection to the redaction of the loan ID
numbers. I don't believe that Countrywide has made any
showing that you can use a loan identification number
to identify a specific borrower.
THE COURT: I can't take that chance. As
the court I have to be the protector, the third-party
borrower. I mean, that's my job. I don't know. It's
as simple as that. I don't know. When I thought about
it when we were discussing it yesterday in chambers I
said to myself, yeah, I don't know. That's where it
is.
But what about trying to do, the number of
the securitization and the last four digits seemed to
me to identify the loan in terms of talking about -- we
are not going get in securitization number 2-654. In
other words, we are going to be able to identify what
we are talking about, and yet at the same time secure
the privacy of the borrower. So the idea that we are
going to have it out there, I don't know.
With my little bit of knowledge of what
computer mavens can do, which is one person I am not,
it's not a question of what I can do, but there are
people out there who can transform that information and
maybe get the name. I am not saying that anybody
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sitting at this table could do it, but somebody in
their organization might be able to do it. That's the
point. The point is, I can't allow that to happen.
MS. SHETH: Our concern, your Honor, is that
there are so many loan identification numbers, these
are long numbers, and there could be a chance of
miscommunication about which specific loan we are
talking about.
THE COURT:
MS. SHETH:
THE COURT:
I don't think so.
We have
I don't think so because I
think, yes, there is going to have to be a private
document with the original loan number and now the
transformed loan document. That will have to be one
document that, frankly, will not be revealed to the
public at any time ever because it really is of no
consequence to public knowledge, but which will allow
all of us to be sure that there is not a duplication.
That's the reason why I came up with the idea.
Yes, you may have numbers that do duplicate
because there are so many of them and there are so many
loans we are talking about. So if you have the same
numbers with an A, with a B, with a C, and if there is
two of the same, then AA, AAA, AAAA, you know, et
cetera. I mean, it can be done.
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MS. SHETH: We will endeavor to do that.
Two things: We did some additional
investigation based on Countrywide's assertions in
their papers, and we actually found a free writing
prospectus for one of the deals which is available on
the SEC website on the EDGAR database. That free
writing prospectus for the deal actually lists the loan
numbers. We have serious concerns about the argument
that one can use loan numbers which are publicly
available, are on the mortgage loan schedules, to
identify borrowers.
THE COURT: Ms. Sheth, I don't care, I don't
care if they put the loan number with the name next to
it. Now it's my job. It's a whole different
perspective.
My job is to ensure that the public has a
right to know what's going on, and, therefore, has a
right to have access to the documents. On the other
hand, it is my job to ensure that the name of that
person that took out that particular loan is private,
and that at no time in the future there is a knock on
somebody's door saying, I understand you took out a
loan, and what did you think about it? No, that will
not happen on my watch. That's my job.
MS. SHETH: Understood, your Honor.
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THE COURT: The fact that it's out there, I
can't help that. That's not under my control. What I
can do is make sure it does not happen when I am doing
it. That's the key.
MS. SHETH:
THE COURT:
MR. ROSEN:
Thank you, your Honor.
So, I think -- yes.
Sorry.
I appreciate your Honor's hard work.
Bloomberg appreciates your Honor's hard work in going
through this.
Just a couple of very brief comments.
One thing, we certainly agree with the
court's position that not enough information has been
given to show compelling need to keep a lot of this
information out of the public access, but I came away
from the last hearing thinking that there would be some
version of Exhibit A that Bloomberg would be able to
look at.
It's impossible for Bloomberg to go to these
documents and look at these various reasons. What we
were basically given was generalized reasons for three
categories. Now your Honor has said give us more
specific reasons for individual documents. We would
like to see those individual reasons. We would like to
see what document it is they are talking about so that
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we can make an argument on a particular document the
that we may be interested in.
That's the first -- I don't know if you want
me to stop there.
THE COURT: We will stop there for the time
being. Ms. Concannon wants to say something on that.
MS. CONCANNON: Thank you, your Honor.
We did reach out to Mr. Rosen. Because of
the nature of the documents which are described in
Exhibit A, Exhibit A itself becomes a document that
contains the substance of the very communications that
we are trying to keep sealed.
We reached out to Mr. Rosen and offered to
provide him unredacted versions of all the parties
submissions in connection with the sealing motions
provided he would represent to us in writing that he
would not provide that information to his client or use
it for any other purpose other than opposing the
sealing motion. Mr. Rosen declined that offer.
THE COURT: All right. That's important to
know.
I didn't get to the last few points that I
will make today. Maybe I should. Then we should
discuss it because now I am faced with a dilemma, as I
have explained already.
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The parties -- in order for me to make a
decision, and I have not made a decision on any one of
the disputed documents because I find that what has
been submitted is just not sufficient. So, of course,
I mean, one way of handling it would be, well, not
sufficient, therefore, I unseal it. But, no, I cannot
do that because there are some really important things
that I think are private to Countrywide, and I can see
that it would do Countrywide and then later on Bank of
America tremendous harm to have that information out in
the public realm.
I think there is a balance there. There
is it's basically, you might say, in the realm of a
trade secret. So I am very -- I have to question that.
So this is what I'm doing. The parties are
going to be allowed to resubmit their sealing motions
with the following point of view: One, the testimony
related to Countrywide's and Bank of America's current
nonpublic financial information, and, two, documents
pertaining to Countrywide's repurchase process.
Countrywide needs to provide good cause, compelling
cause to seal such documents or portions thereof.
Countrywide must also carry out a balancing test for
the reasons of sealing documents against public
interest.
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Now we get into the real issue as to what
Mr. Rosen just brought up which is a very important
issue: How can Mr. Rosen argue against Countrywide's
request that a document be sealed because it is in the
nature of a trade secret if he can't look at it? That
is a real issue.
At the same time, if that document in the end
is sealed, and I give reasons why I believe that
document should be sealed, then that's a decision of
the court which is, by the way, appealable. That's why
we have case law at all because other judges have done
it and it immediately has gone to the Appellate
Division. I don't think anything has ever gone to the
Court of Appeals. That process then happens.
Of course, in order for the Appellate
Division to make a decision on that the original
document has to be produced and what portion of it then
gets sealed? That's what happens when it goes up.
MR. ROSEN: May I?
I really appreciate Countrywide's offer, but
what it does, it puts me in a very precarious position
with my client.
I discussed it with my client. I have had
this situation occur many times in the past, and
basically it gives the attorney much more knowledge
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than the client. The client's a news organization.
It's a very uncomfortable position to be in. Basically
you can't get access to this, I know why, and I can't
tell you.
So there is a better way. The way is to
provide us with Exhibit A with a description of what it
is, but not exactly what it is. The reason why we want
to -- this provides an explanation and some detail of
what kind of explanation it is. It does not have to be
the actual explanation itself, but there are other ways
to describe it just as you would describe a redaction
in a privilege log. There are ways to describe it that
do not break the privilege. There are ways to
describe, especially when it comes to these
transcripts, there are ways to describe what is being
discussed that would give us enough information that we
can say that's not enough, their reasons aren't enough.
It may be that they convince us that we just sort of
waive that and move on from there.
MS. CONCANNON: My concern, your Honor, is
that the court obviously wants a great deal more
specificity in Exhibit A than currently exists in that
document. I believe that it would be walking a very
fine line to provide the court with the detailed
grounds, showing of good cause, showing of compelling
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interest to seal without really describing the contents
of the documents with some degree of detail which we
are more than happy to do to satisfy the request of the
court. However, that then is effectively handing over
the documents that we are asking to seal to Mr. Rosen.
We do believe the appropriate course is
essentially an attorney's eyes only approach which is
something frequently done routinely with protective
orders. We have no concern with regard to Mr. Rosen's
discretion. We want to make sure the documents don't
inadvertently become disclosed.
THE COURT: End up in the press. I mean,
there comes a time, if you describe it enough, that you
don't have to get the document, you know, because it's
all out there. That is exactly what Countrywide wants
to stop the press from having because they say it's
akin to a trade secret, the information.
I mean, some of the information, for example,
how much is the worth of the shares of stock, et
cetera, et cetera, that is secret to a time that there
is a shareholder, that there is a disclosure that has
to be made to the SEC, and then it becomes a public
document. So, I mean, yes, it's secret as of
November 15th, 2012, but when it has to be revealed to
the SEC or when you have a shareholders meeting and a
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vote of the amount of distributions will have to be
made, when something happens it changes and morphs into
something public. So then as to that year it becomes a
public document.
There is that consideration.
It seems to me, this is something that I
don't know, but it seems to me that the documents for
2006 and 2007 may be something that is not something at
this moment that is sealable because of the date
involved. And if you request that it remain sealed,
then there will be an additional there will have to
be an additional explanation why in 2012 that document
pertaining to 2007 has any impact on 2012. I mean,
those are the things that you will have to provide
writings on.
I know that you're trying to seal current
financial information, but, nevertheless, again, it has
that kind of like a morphing outwards, and I don't know
when the morph comes. For example, if you tell me that
morph has to come on April 15, that's one date. Or
does the morph happen on January 15? There are a lot
of corporate disclosures that have to be made. I don't
know. That's something that I would want to know
because I think that makes a very distinct difference.
If it will happen on December 15, you know, that
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changes that entire quality and character of that
request.
Since I have not the vaguest idea of what I
am talking about you will have to let me know on that.
That's one of the things I will be very interested in.
It will be part of my decision-making process.
The only other thing I can say, Mr. Rosen, is
that they made a very good offer to you. If you feel
uncomfortable with that, you will have to rely on the
court. Then if you say later on -- I will put in my
decision that this offer has been made -- it's on the
record, also -- an offer was made, it was declined.
So, therefore, the fact that you can't comment, you
can't give me your views on the documents that I will
have to make decisions on, that's up to you to make
that decision.
MR. ROSEN: Your Honor, I appreciate the
court's position. I feel that based on the case law
and the burden that it's their burden to provide a
public presentation of what it is that they are trying
to seal, and the compelling reasons that they need to
seal it is their burden to do so, not my burden to know
something that my client doesn't know and for me to
essentially say I can't tell you why, but we are going
to lose this or I can't tell you why we shouldn't
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approach this aggressively.
mechanism.
It's really an intrusive
THE COURT: I understand. So, therefore,
you have to rely on the court just as everybody out
there in the public in a privilege log has to depend on
the court. That's what the court -- that's what you do
in a privilege log, you have to put in certain
information, and the court has to then -- I usually
send it to a referee. A referee usually says
privileged, not privileged, the first three words are
privileged --
MR. ROSEN: I understand.
THE COURT: -- the next six words are not.
The person I send it to, Justice Bradley, that's how he
comes up with it. Amazing. That's his decision.
MR. ROSEN: I understand that.
Even with a privilege log there is enough
information where you can tell who sent it and what the
general topic is and I don't have that now. What I
have are three basic categories of information and a
general reason that your Honor has dismissed. already
dismissed.
I think there is a burden on the movant to
provide more information to the public so that we can
make the argument. I understand they can't tell me
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what the actual document is. And if my client declines
to allow me to see attorney's eyes only, so be it,
however, I believe there is another step that can be
taken, a more detailed step that can be taken.
THE COURT: I think I already ordered that.
At this stage we are premature in worrying
about it. We don't know what they will come up with.
We do know they will have to come up with much more
detailed information to have me find a compelling
reason.
You may take Mr. Rosen's idea that maybe you
do want to say it's this topic, it's that topic, what
kind of et cetera. You will have to develop that.
That's something that's not been done so far.
So at the stage we are, at this moment, I
would say everything could be unsealed. However, I am
giving another opportunity for you to work on it to
give me good reasons why X should be sealed. And I
think when you go through the exercise a good deal of
it will fall into the unsealing portion of it because I
think now that we looked over a lot of things, I think
that that high degree that has to be met, I am not
saying it does not get met, but I am saying it's a very
high level, and, you know, you will have to weigh it
whether you will even get there.
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That's something you have to -- I can't tell
you how to do it, but I do think it will have to be a
lot more detail. And you may think about that
privilege log and how we get around doing it. I mean,
usually what happens in a privilege log is that, of
course, it's always in a string, you know, 35 e-mails
of which e-mail number 15 involved the lawyer or
conveniently involved the lawyer. And the rest of it,
naturally the whole string should be -- that does not
happen. So we get down to 15, the 15th e-mail out of
the string of 35, and then that is looked over, which I
will have to do to make a decision on the sealing
issue. It's looked over by usually I send it to the
referee. The referee looks at it, a special master,
and says that out of this e-mail, all right, line six
is privileged, that one line is privileged, and the
rest is unprivileged. That's more often than not. It
amazes me. Talk about detail work.
Anyway, to go into how to do this: The
parties are going to provide the court with one hard
copy so I don't spend the whole afternoon trying to
decipher something, a complete set of motion papers
including copies of all exhibits that the parties seek
to seal. Don't give me document number. I am
interested in actually seeing the document. We spent a
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good deal of time going through trying to find
documents so I could get a sampling of it. Give me the
document you want me to consider in the unsealed
version. Then you will have to give me the document,
how you want it sealed. You will have to do two
versions of the same document.
No placeholders, no references to affidavits
submitted on other motions.
Again, I want it clear. I want me to have in
front of me what I am considering in the sealing,
whether it will be sealed or not. Of course, I want
your argument, I want your argument why it should be
sealed, and good reasons, and then I want the
documents, proposed sealing, or proposed sealing and
original document.
Now also do that in two other copies, but
they can be on disk. That's for my younger crew. They
love disks and I like to see things. That's what
happens when you grow old. I used to be the only
person using a computer in the entire City of New York.
I had my own computer, and I used it. Now I know
nothing, it's true, about computers.
Back to Bank of America's sealing motion: I
know Bank of America is here. Given the guidelines
provided by the court today, and the detailed analysis
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the court expects to see on the sealing motions, the
party should consider whether they need additional time
to complete the briefing on Bank of America's sealing
motion.
MR. CANTOR: I think we can answer on that
right now.
THE COURT: I know you can, but we will have
to discuss it. We will get to it. Then the same issue
on the summary judgment motion.
Let's understand each other: You can't get
to the summary judgment motion unless the summary
judgment motion is submitted in full. It can't be
considered by the court if it's not a full document.
So that, for example, you're relying on the testimony
of a witness, and that testimony of a witness is going
to be sealed as to three pages, and the rest of it will
be used, but of course, these three pages are the key
three pages that you want to quote.
That's the purpose of this entire testimony
and the deposition that lasted 160 pages. The three
pages that you really want to rely on, agreed, all
sides, all three people agree those are the three pages
you want to rely on, those are the ones you want
sealed.
I have to -- I have to decide the sealing
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issue before I can consider it in my summary judgment
motion. That has to be done. That's a preliminary
step because I frankly do not want placeholders in my
summary judgment motion. I want it to be either
redacted copies as we talked about redacting the
copies, or I want something that I decided should be
sealed. I want a summary judgment motion that in a
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make it public. Otherwise, we are doing a half-baked
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there's going to be, I think, a relatively few number
of documents that I will have to consider. Most of it
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end of the period of time necessary to clean up the
documents, can be released to the general public, and
if they are interested they can read them. That's a
different issue, but they will be, they will be
available. Then they can be referred to in the summary
judgment motion because they will be available as
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As I redacted them, I had no problem.
ask you, Mr. Rosen, would you have a problem as I
redacted them?
I will
MR. ROSEN:
THE COURT:
statements today.
If your Honor redacted them?
As I redacted them in my
MR. ROSEN: Generally I believe Bloomberg
agrees with just about everything your Honor said.
THE COURT: Okay. So we can use them.
That's the important thing. Then we get into the
thorny issues. Those are the ones that we will have to
deal with.
I don't think we can do the summary judgment
motions until we have decided. And I have to give you
time to do the work. Now, the bottom line is, I can't
see how we are doing our summary judgment motions in
the month of December. I just don't see it. I mean,
look, I'm not working Thanksgiving. I am telling you
that right now. So, I mean, you may want me to --
MS. SHETH: No, we don't, your Honor.
We think we can accomplish I think your
Honor has given us very specific advice as to what
types of information should be sealed and what types of
information should be redacted. And for the most part
the vast majority of the papers the pleadings, as well
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as the exhibits, can now be filed with the court system
open without placeholders, with very few redactions.
So I think the parties can endeavor to get all of this
done before the next hearing date on the Bank of
America's sealing motion which is on November 29th.
That gives the parties a week and a half, almost two
weeks to get all of this done for your Honor so we can
still have the hearing for the summary judgment motions
on December 5th and 6th. I know the court set aside
that time for a long time. This hearing keeps getting
pushed back for a variety of reasons, but the parties
are ready. The court has set aside that time for the
parties and we are ready to proceed.
To the extent there are any remaining issues
and disputes pertaining to the complex categories
relating to repurchase documents or Countrywide's
nonpublic financial documents, we obviously will try to
present them to your Honor well in advance of the
summary judgment hearing, but certainly in advance of
November 29, the next hearing date on the Bank of
America sealing motions.
And we would submit that in order to decide
the summary judgment motions the court can decide them
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we don't reach a resolution or the court is unable to
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decide this issue, but we can limit the presentation of
the public evidence at that time in the hearing and
deal with the more thornier issues after the hearing.
That's always an option, as well, for those limited
subset of documents.
THE COURT: One second, please.
(Discussion off the record.)
MR. ROSEN: I appreciate MBIA's need to have
expediency here, but I believe your Honor set out the
law correctly, set out a procedure correctly, and that
these decisions -- the public should have the ability
to look at everything that is going to be public before
there is an argument. If the parties would like to do
this on an expeditious basis, Bloomberg is willing to
do whatever it needs to do within that so that these
arguments can be held the first week of December. But
I believe your Honor was absolutely correct that we
don't just put this off and that the public needs to
have access before a hearing is held.
THE COURT: Like everything else, we are
dealing with something we don't know. I don't know how
many documents are going to in the end boil down to
the, boil down to the documents I will have to make a
decision on. Frankly, if I have to make decisions on,
and I have 300 documents, that's one kind of work that
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needs to be finished. If, on the other hand, I am down
to 20 documents, that's another portion of work.
That's something that might -- then there are other
issues. I mean, that is something else. So if I have
20 documents, I have to deal with, yes, maybe I can
handle that within a very short period of time. Three
hundred is a different story because each one of them,
in my book, requires my analysis as to why I'm going to
agree with you or not agree with you. So that depends.
MR. HOLLAND: Your Honor, to echo what you
said, we appreciate all the work you put into this. I
think it shows how much time it consumes for the court.
I don't know if we can meet very expedited
deadlines. I think trying to get this done, and also
have you be ready for the summary judgment motion by
December 5th and 6th is imposing a tremendous burden on
the court because you will be spending all your time
sorting out sealing issues instead of focusing on
what's in the motion.
I know the court had its schedule disrupted
because of the hurricane. Of course, we will do
whatever the court wants, but I think it might be too
ambitious to keep the current dates for arguing the
summary judgment motion. Maybe we can keep those dates
for finally sorting out the sealing issues. If the
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court wants to hear us in December, that's fine, or
January, that's fine.
THE COURT: Like everything else, the court
is a big believer of if you don't have to make a
decision sooner, don't do it. Let's try to make a huge
effort. I don't know, with all the other things I have
said, there is a lot of work that needs to be done, but
I think it's a lot of mechanical work. I don't see
that it requires -- I see somebody having to do a lot
of work, I am not saying all of you have to do the
work. Maybe you do.
MR. HOLLAND: Mr. Freeburg.
THE COURT: That's what I mean. I just
don't know what the parameters of the problem will be.
Until I know that I can't make a decision, and I can't
really, I really don't know.
Therefore, let's keep our dates where we are
now. Let's keep our dates where we are now. Let's see
how it goes. Try to tell me how it's going on an
updated basis through communication. Let me know. Let
me know how it's going because in addition to
everything else we have Thanksgiving, and then we are
basically getting closer to that Christmas event.
So, I mean, there is a lot of work that needs
to be done. Let's get going on it. I won't take you
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up this afternoon. You have plenty of time this
afternoon to go back to work. Let's see where we go.
I am not a computer expert so I don't know
whether if I say this it's a question of putting a code
in and all of Column A disappears, that's all the
names, or all of Column B disappears.
If you say to me, Miss Concannon says to me
we can't transform the loan documents to one at this
time, however we will do this for the loan documents
that we will use in the summary judgment motions, I am
willing to buy that, that's fine. Later on we will get
into the more technical. The one thing I am worried
about if you do that is if you do, if it is loan
sequence number 422 of securitization three that you
want to transform, then when you get to loan 3-422,
that loan number, you have to make sure it corresponds
to what it has been changed into. But that's not my
headache, it's yours. It's the kind of thing you have
to be conscious about.
MR. HOLLAND: We just don't know. While I
too once was considered avant-garde with computers, I
too am no longer conversant in the subject. Until we
go back to our computer people, we don't know what we
are doing.
THE COURT: Keep in communication with each
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Yes.
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difference between the Bank of America aspect of this
and the Countrywide aspect of this. For all the folks
at the table both their summary judgment motions and
their sealing motions are fully submitted. Neither is
the case for us. So we have an existing schedule that
was, frankly, based on a different view of the world in
terms of sealing, and that sealing happened
simultaneously with the preparation of our summary
judgment reply brief which got pushed back because of
the storm.
We are in a situation right now where the
hearing on the sealing motion was supposed to be
November 29. The summary judgment reply briefs are due
on the 27th. Despite everyone's best intentions I have
no doubt that there will be documents in the reply
briefs that were not, not in any of the briefs. We
will have to deal with those.
Right now our motion on, an open brief on the
motion to seal is due tomorrow, tomorrow at 5:00. My
team was in the office until 2:30 in the morning last
night to try to get the chart of documents that the
parties, per your suggestion, had agreed to exchange in
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advance of the hearing done. That chart, it sounds
like it may not be what your Honor is looking for
anymore.
THE COURT: No longer, having looked at the
charts.
MR. CANTOR: Right.
What I am saying is that these folks have
work to do to get you a new set of what it is exactly
you want. We have not even gotten as far as they do,
and we are doing all of this while we are trying to
complete our summary judgment reply briefs by the 27th
with the Thanksgiving holiday in the middle.
I think we need to come up with a new
schedule. I think at a minimum the 29th is going to be
problematic. I think what makes the most sense is to
have the parties submit one set of papers after the
reply briefs are in so we are not doing a
helter-skelter process of opening and opposition briefs
and then supplementing if there is something in the
reply.
If the reply briefs go in on the 27th, we can
get something comprehensive in, for your Honor, that
week. The 27th, I think, is a Tuesday, if I recall
correctly. Yes, we can get something in for you that
week.
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I don't know how long your Honor needs to be
with those materials before you are ready to hear us on
the sealing.
THE COURT: Remember, basically what I did
today is I gave you the outline of what is not going to
be in any document, okay, names, addresses, social
security numbers, et cetera, et cetera. I think I went
over it fairly clearly.
Now when you provide me with a big chart,
which I am sure everyone will want to see, basically
it's all going to be public, the redacted public,
because it's no longer something that we have to
discuss. But then we get into the key documents, the
important documents. Those are the ones that I'm going
to have to consider.
MR. CANTOR: There are other categories of
documents. I know it's going to be in my motion.
There are other categories of documents that are
different from the categories of documents raised by
the Countrywide parties, and we have got arguments as
to why those documents are sensitive to Bank of
America, and why there is little or no public interest
in those documents because they don't relate to any of
the issues on the motions. And we are going to need to
make all of those arguments.
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And while your Honor's rulings today
certainly are constructive on some of what was going to
be the subject of our sealing motion, it does not reach
other parts of it. Again, I think we need to be, you
know, practical, and not have a situation where, you
know, for the sake of getting the sealing motion done
as quickly as possible we are leaving ourselves in the
position where it is both extremely difficult to get
the sealing motion done and to get the summary motion
done, and leave your Honor enough time to have time to
deal with the summary motion.
At this point I will not take a position on
whether your Honor needs to move the summary judgment
hearing or not. I know what a charged issue that is.
I think it in terms of sealing, I think what makes the
most sense is to wait until we get to the end of
summary judgment briefing process and have us submit a
comprehensive motion to seal, have the other side
oppose it, and leave your Honor how much time you need
to deal with it at a hearing.
THE COURT: Yes.
Mr. Rosen.
MR. ROSEN: I actually agree that it would
be good to have the briefing completed after the reply
brief. It makes no sense to do this two-step process.
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THE COURT: That's why, because I wanted it
done, I have not looked at the supplemental things.
But, again, I don't think that I mean, one
of my views is that, guess what, a reply brief, yes,
you're entitled to put in new documents if the
opposition brought up such new concepts that you
couldn't possibly have done it before your main brief,
so, therefore, you are allowed to have an answer to
this, to the opposition, okay. But as to the number of
documents that happened as a result of that, I don't
know. Remember how many times I have written I have
no -- I am not taking that into consideration because
that's brand new material that should not have been
brought up in the reply.
MR. CANTOR: All I am saying is that based
on the fact that there was supplemental briefing on
Countrywide's motion to seal as a result of documents
in the Countrywide and MBIA v. Countrywide reply
briefs, I can anticipate the same issue will happen in
Bank of America, and we are going to be in a situation
where right now on that schedule we have a day to deal
with those documents.
MR. HOLLAND: Your Honor, we didn't put any
additional documents in our reply.
MR. CANTOR: I believe MBIA did.
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MS. SHETH: I think Bank of America is
creating a mountain out of a molehill here.
I know our client MBIA wants to be directly
heard on the issue of timing.
What your Honor has done is helped the
parties by reducing the amount of disagreements. So,
if anything, this process is going to be made easier,
not harder.
Second, your Honor has said there is nothing
new here. Your Honor repeated what the First
Department, Court of Appeals -- it's well-established
and longstanding case law on the standard for sealing.
It's a high standard. It's good cause. There is
nothing new that Bank of America or Countrywide, for
that matter, could not have done on the initial motions
to seal. In fact, your Honor is giving them a second
bite of the apple to establish that very high showing.
In light of that fact we respectfully would
say there is no reason for further delaying the
resolution of this case. This has been pending -- we
have been appearing before your Honor since 2008, the
fall of 2008. And we are very anxious to get this case
resolved. We are being prejudiced by this continual
pattern of delay by defendants.
But let me defer to my client, Jonathan
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MR. HARRIS: Good morning, your Honor.
Just to follow up on something that Mr. Rosen
said, something that your Honor said, these are
arguments
THE COURT: Speak up.
MR. HARRIS: -- these are arguments that
should have been made prior to today. We have delayed
the summary judgment hearing several times now. And as
Ms. Sheth noted, this is an important matter for MBIA.
What we have seen throughout this case is precisely
what we are seeing now. We are seeing Bank of America,
Countrywide, coming to this court with one reason or
another why matters have to be delayed.
Your Honor was very clear at the last hearing
that the dates we set for these hearings, December 5th
and 6th, and the 12th and 13th, were etched in stone.
There is no reason why the charts that were
presented couldn't have been better, couldn't have been
more detailed, couldn't have met the standard that the
law requires.
As Mr. Rosen points out it's their burden.
If they failed to meet it, that's their problem,
frankly. And if your Honor wants to give them some
leeway to fix that problem, that's fine, too, but it
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really shouldn't come to the detriment of MBIA.
For example, if they want to take a couple of
days to get their chart better, have it done before the
Thanksgiving break, I think that would give Mr. Rosen
time to respond to it, and your Honor time to consider
it before the hearing on the 29th. But allowing them
to take time, talk it through, work it out, I can just
see where it's going. We will get, you know, weeks and
weeks delay.
Frankly, the time for that has passed, as far
as MBIA is concerned. I say that with all respect to
your Honor who, I agree, needs time to consider
everything that is going to be put before her.
But we have seen a pattern of delay.
Sanctions have not been imposed, and that's your
Honor's prerogative. But this is the time for you to
tell Bank of America and Countrywide to meet the
standards that you have imposed, and not to come back
with requests for more time that will prejudice MBIA
significantly.
MR. CANTOR: Your Honor, if I could,
briefly, on that, because the description of what's
going on here, I think, is entirely inaccurate: We
were prepared to and are prepared to defend our sealing
calls based on affidavits and briefing and
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document-by-document review of those documents. What
was never the order of this court, and I think what is
resulting in your Honor telling the parties to go back
and change their chart, is the idea that the chart
would be the end all and be all of this sealing
analysis here. That was never the understanding of the
parties. The chart was to assist your Honor in walking
through the documents at the hearing. It was never
anyone's understanding, and I defy anyone to find it in
the record from that October hearing that we had where
your Honor said that all of the detailed reasons why a
document should be sealed must be set forth in the
chart. Remember, we were supposed to give a reason.
We said the problem --
THE COURT: Look, Mr. Cantor, I don't think
if you went over what I said before, that -- which you
would be glad to know Mr. Rosen quoted in his papers
what I said before is that you have a very high
standard. Now we are faced with, I think, complex
issues in terms of the repurchasing, et cetera, et
cetera.
I tried to analyze it to give you a little
bit better view. You're saying to me in response, oh,
we have additionally complex issues that you will have
to deal with. I can understand that. But those
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additional complex issues you have known about, and you
have been prepared about, and, you know, the time has
come to let me know about it too. And the 29th is a
good day to think about it, the day we set aside for
you. Now that means you have to provide me with the
information before then, and I will have to spend time
and analyze it the way I analyzed this, and I have to
see where we go with it. But right now I am not
inclined to change dates.
I realize, I am very, very much aware that, I
am very much aware that, indeed, holidays are coming up
and people have the right to be with their family on
that day, and if you're the designated cooker you have
the right to cook the turkey. That happens. There are
human lives involved here. So I really do want that
adhered to. But at the same time right now I don't see
a reason to unilaterally delay anything. I am giving
everybody a heads up. It's something I have to
consider.
I do not want -- I will not deal with doing
summary judgments motions that are half-baked. I may
come to the conclusion in a sense they are
half-backed, that they have, they have placeholders
instead of documents there. I will consider a slight
compromise which would be a document goes in, but the
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redaction portion of it is larger, it will be part of
my final decision. I may have to do that.
know yet. I have not made up my mind.
I don't
But I really want a real effort so that you
can come and Ms. Concannon can say to me they are now,
in the Countrywide portion of life, there are now six
documents left for to you consider, Judge. Then I can
make a decision about whether I can do those six
documents in a quick enough time to be able to make
those documents public before summary judgment motion
argument, or maybe those six documents also have to be,
remain sealed until I have a chance to do them, and I
may do them concurrently with my summary judgment
decision. That's where I stand. I just don't know.
Right now keep working, okay, Mr. Cantor.
Keep working.
MR. CANTOR: All I'm saying -- I was not
suggesting there is a lower burden -- I was saying we
were prepared to show that burden in a way that sounds
like it's different than your Honor wants it, from a
pure presentation standpoint, that your Honor wants it
all in the chart as opposed to in briefs, and
affidavits, and in oral argument, and that's all I'm
saying is different than what we understood before.
The standard is the standard.
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THE COURT: Maybe you didn't hear me. I
said there was a new form, okay, there is a new section
that I am giving everybody an opportunity to do. I
want the document there. I want the proposed redaction
next to it. Do it in a form that, you know -- you know
how to do it, red line, et cetera, et cetera. Even I
know how to do that. That I know a computer can do.
It's doable.
MS. SHETH: To be clear, your Honor, Bank of
America's summary judgment reply papers are still due
on the existing schedule; is that right?
MR. CANTOR: I never intended to suggest
otherwise. I'm talking about -- the one thing I'm
talking about, your Honor, most urgently is the
submission of a chart with our motion. We are prepared
to file our motion tomorrow, file our brief tomorrow,
file our affidavits tomorrow. I think providing the
chart in the nature of what you're talking about
although, again, now if you are talking now about
documents and a description of the documents
THE COURT:
was Ms. Sheth's idea.
The chart was a grand idea. It
I think you're the first person
that talked to me about a chart. I thought that would
work perfectly. As it turned out, I spent now a period
of time on it. It has not worked out. It requires --
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it did provide me the sufficient information to come up
with a whole series of decisions today which is what I
put on the record today, which I may not have been able
to do it had I not had the chart. We will put it that
way. It was a useful event. However, we are in a
different category.
When you get the record, if you have a chance
to go over it, you will see my categories are different
now. I want much more specificity that are not
contained in the chart. You can do it in a chart, but
you don't have to do it in a chart. We are not into
charts as much as we are compelling reasons.
MS. SHETH: We asked Bank of America's
counsel for those reasons during these negotiations
about the chart. And initially they refused to provide
us with any reason. This is an issue that they have
been on notice of. We actually compared it to a
privilege log so we would have a basis to assess
whether or not the documentation was sealed.
They have done the analysis. So there is
nothing additional that needs to be done here that
would warrant a delay of even the chart.
MR. CANTOR: What we argued with them about
was whether we were required to give them our reasons
two days before we were filing the motion with the
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court for them to review. That's what the dispute was
about. It wasn't over whether we would provide reasons
for sealing. We know we have to provide reasons for
sealing.
The issue now, your Honor, is just whether in
order to be able to give you the side-by-side documents
and all of that we can have more time than tomorrow at
five.
MS. SHETH: Your Honor, we don't have an
objection if they want more time until tomorrow. All
we are saying is that the chart must be done before the
22nd, which I think is Thanksgiving, and so that will
give the court and the parties enough time to get this
before your Honor, before the 29th.
THE COURT: Today is the 15th. It remains
the 15th all day. I suggest that you spend a wonderful
weekend. All right. That's my suggestion. So that we
will give you to the 20th.
MR. CANTOR: Okay.
THE COURT: Not at 5:00 on the 20th. Let's
make it noon on the 20th.
All right.
MR. ROSEN:
THE COURT:
MR. ROSEN:
This is for the sealing motion?
Yes, sealing.
When would our response be due?
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THE COURT:
MR. ROSEN:
beforehand?
THE COURT:
I said noon to give you
MR. HARRIS:
THE COURT:
cooker, maybe you have
They are coming in on the 29th.
You don't want to see anything
No, no, I do. Again, that's why
the afternoon.
Okay.
Again, if you are not the
the 21st. Then the 26th, 27th.
I would like to get papers in, I do want papers in for
me to consider no later than really the 26th. If you
say to me 10:00 on the 27th, I will buy that. I need
time for myself. I do need time.
MS. SHETH: MBIA can have its opposition to
Bank of America's papers by the 23rd which is that
Friday. If we can get Monday, that's better.
THE COURT: Yes. There's Thanksgiving. I
will give you the 26th.
I assume Countrywide will not be opposed.
MR. HOLLAND: No, your Honor. We will make
our best efforts to get our supplemental submissions to
you by then, as well.
MR. CANTOR: Your Honor, at the risk of
looking stupid, which happens not infrequently, I want
to make sure I understand specifically what you want us
to submit to you.
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You still want a chart; correct or no?
THE COURT: Look, you have a chart. That
chart basically --Ms. Sheth's chart, we have
Countrywide's chart. If you have additional documents
that are not contained in these charts then you have to
have some sort of mechanism of identification, and if
you have just, let's say, Bank of America Exhibit 32
made up, and that you're redacting all names and
everything else, and it's to go public, you have no
problems with it, all right, that's a conclusion. Most
of these documents, Ms. Concannon is right, most of the
documents here have already gone public. They are
already in the system, right?
So we are talking out of the thousand, 630
were all public, and then an additional 400, whatever
number, 600 and 400 are not public at this moment.
Now that I've given reasons we should be down
to important documents, maybe 20. Maybe there are 15.
The lesser the better. Those are the ones that we are
going to be having arguments on whether or not they
should be sealed or not sealed.
MS. CONCANNON: That's true on the
Countrywide side. Your Honor, there are different
sets, I believe, of approximately 1,000 documents on
the Bank of America side.
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MR. CANTOR: A thousand exhibits, not a
thousand documents. But as I said, there are going to
be additional documents on, additional categories,
descriptive categories of documents on our motion that
has not been raised yet that your Honor will be hearing '
the first time when you get our papers on the 20th. I
raise that issue. You wanted redacted and unredacted
copies of the each of the documents at issue, as well
as the chart with the description on it, and obviously
briefing and affidavits, as well, I assume?
THE COURT: Right.
MR. CANTOR: Right.
MS. SHETH: To be clear, the November 20th
deadline, that applies to any party, including MBIA and
Countrywide, who wants to make a supplemental or
further motion to seal?
And the oppositions would be due the 26th?
THE COURT: I'm not sure about that.
Are you capable of doing that?
MR. HOLLAND: I thought we were talking
about make our supplemental submission by the 26th.
MS. SHETH: That gives us very little time
to reply to that opposition.
supplemental motion --
If they make another
THE COURT: Look, look, I will give you to
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the 26th for the redact-able documents so we know what
we are doing. That's mechanical. That takes a lot of
time. We do have an awful lot of that.
I really do want on the 20th the ones that
will be the issues, the --
MS. SHETH: The complex ones, the
repurchase, the nonfinancial, those categories.
THE COURT: The important documents.
MS. CONCANNON: Your Honor, if we take the
court's instructions today as an order with regard to
witness information, essentially take those documents
off the table, we are talking about a relatively
discrete number of documents falling into these
categories of repurchase loan, loss reserves, current
financial information.
We would be intending to submit a supplement
to the court that solely concerns that relatively
discrete universe. I would request respectfully until
after the Thanksgiving holiday. Simply, among other
things, I'm leaving immediately after this hearing for
a memorial service that's taking me through the
weekend. I personally will not be available. That
would enable Mr. Freeburg, who has been working around
the clock for about the last three weeks on these
issues, to have a little bit of a Thanksgiving break.
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MS. SHETH: Your Honor, this is the second
bite at the apple. I think your Honor indulged them
enough.
THE COURT: Enough already. Give them a
break. I can't help that Thanksgiving comes in the
middle. Maybe you should change the holiday. That way
we will have more time.
MS. SHETH:
THE COURT:
We need time to respond to that.
I understand, but guess what? I
think that you, knowing the documents itself, it's not
as though you don't know the documents. You do. You
know what the documents are. You do. You can begin
the answer right now. You don't have to -- you can
tweak it when you get their wonderful arguments. But
you already know what they are going to be saying. And
if I were you I would start putting the response
together.
MS. SHETH: We will, but I am saying the
same argument applies to them. It's their documents
right now they are saying they need to be sealed.
THE COURT: They will have to make a
compelling reason, and that's going to be very hard on
them.
By the way, on the -- I shouldn't say
anything.
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Let's see. So you will have the documents
in, the new batch of documents, the ones that we are
really caring about, on the 26th. Did I say noon on
the 26th? Noon on the 26th.
I don't know how you will do it, but you
probably can give me an answer. We will have argument
on it. We will see where we go.
MS. SHETH: Would you like our opposition on
the 27th or the 28th? We are happy --
at noon
THE COURT: I will give you to the 28th, but
MS. SHETH:
THE COURT:
All right. Very well.
-- so I can see it.
By the way, we don't have to have oral
argument on this. This portion will be basically on
papers.
MR. ROSEN:
THE COURT:
For the continuation of this?
Of the Countrywide issue. The
29th is devoted to Bank of America, an additional
thousand documents, and many more wonderful salient
arguments.
Now that Mr. Cantor knows what I want, he can
tell me the compelling reasons in a much more, in a
manner where they'll be bowled over.
MR. ROSEN: Your Honor, I would like to make
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it clear that while no one has to -- if they don't want '
to give us access to the chart, that's fine, but there
needs to be a public expression of the compelling
reasons in whatever documents, whether the briefs or
otherwise, enough explanation of why they, what is in
there that requires this compelling reason.
THE COURT: Absolutely true. Absolutely
true. Of course you have to have a decision of this
court telling you that I agree with the compelling
reasons or not agree with the compelling reasons. So
there has to be a written decision on the court's part.
In terms of Countrywide, I don't think I need
to have -- I invite you to come on the 29th, but I
don't think I need, I don't need to have oral argument
on that. We will concentrate on Bank of America on the
29th.
MS. SHETH: The parties will be here anyway.
If your Honor has any questions, we are happy to answer
them.
THE COURT: That's true, but I will not make
decisions on the record on those because they have to
have a writing. No writing, no decision.
MR. ROSEN: Thank you, Judge.
THE COURT: Otherwise, how could you appeal
it, which is something to think about because that puts
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a different issue on everything too. But I will not
worry about that. First you have to have a decision to
decide if you will appeal or not.
So with that, that's where that stands.
Okay.
MR. HOLLAND: Thank you very much, Judge.
Have a good Thanksgiving.
THE COURT: Happy Thanksgiving. I won't see
you until the 29th, I don't think.
Apparently there is something we left undone.
Yes, Ms. Sheth.
MS. SHETH: Sorry.
Very quickly, MBIA's motion, sequence number
64, just to cover briefly, I think out of the five
categories of the information that we moved to seal,
four of which are unopposed by both Bloomberg and
Countrywide, MBIA, there is one category, due diligence
employees, the names of the due diligence employees who
we will now withdraw our motion to seal as to those
individuals given your Honor's statements.
And the fifth category was the banking
information relating to the account numbers which your
Honor covered in the context of Countrywide's motion.
Generally I want to make sure that also gets sealed for
MBIA's purposes.
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MS. CONCANNON: We have no objection, your
Honor.
THE COURT: So, let's see now. Let me go
over it so I have it because what I will have to do, I
will have to give you a writing on what I said
basically on the record. But we are getting and
expedited copy of the record. I will give you
basically what we already have written, but I will
maybe amplify a little bit the standard based on the
case law that, again, I referred to. I referred to one
of the cases, but I probably will do a little more on
that, and give you the outline basically exactly what I
said on the record.
But to go back over 64, what am I to do on
64? Four categories are agreed to.
MS. SHETH: Yes. Those four categories are
the personal information concerning the witness which
would include date of birth and social security number,
category two are documents produced in response to
third-party subpoenas issued to borrowers, employers
and accountants, the third category is names and
addresses as well as social security and date of birth
of third-party borrowers which was covered on the
Countrywide motion, and the fourth category is banking
information, bank account information relating to
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specific transactions. So those are the four that are
unopposed by both Countrywide and Bloomberg. And the
last category was names of due diligence employees
which we had initially moved to seal, but in light of
your Honor's guidance this morning we will withdraw
that portion of the motion.
THE COURT: That completes your 64?
MS. SHETH: That's correct, your Honor.
THE COURT: Good. Good. Thank you. Thank
you for clarifying that. I think that was it. I am
glad we had that cleared up.
Happy Thanksgiving, again. Happy holidays.
* * * C E R T I F I C A T E
I, Terry-Ann Volberg, C.S.R., an official court reporter of
the State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true and accurate transcript of my stenographic notes.
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