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1 MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP Exempt from filing fee pursuant to
Barry W. Lee (SBN 88685) Government Code § 6103
2 Justin Jones Rodriguez (SBN 279080)
One Embarcadero Center, 30th Floor ELECTRONICALLY
3 San Francisco, California 94111 F I L E D
Telephone: (415) 291-7450 Superior Court of California,
4 Facsimile: (415) 291-7474 County of San Francisco
Email: bwlee@manatt.com 04/29/2022
5 Email: jjrodriguez@manatt.com Clerk of the Court
BY: RONNIE OTERO
6 THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Deputy Clerk
Marcia Scully (SBN 80648)
7 Heather C. Beatty (SBN 161907)
Patricia J. Quilizapa (SBN 233745)
8 700 North Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012-2944
9 Telephone: (213) 217-6834
Facsimile: (213) 217-6890
10 Email: hbeatty@mwdh2o.com
11 Attorneys for Respondent, Defendant, and Cross-Complainant
THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Additional counsel listed on page following caption
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER Case No. CPF-14-514004, consolidated
18 AUTHORITY, with Case Nos. CPF-16-515282 & CPF-18-
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v. Assigned for all purposes to the
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THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT
21 OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ALL
PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE VALIDITY PROOF OF SERVICE
22 OF THE RATES ADOPTED BY THE
METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF
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TO BE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2015 AND
24 JANUARY 1, 2016; and DOES 1-10,
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Mira Hashmall (SBN 216842)
2 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1000
Los Angeles, California 90067
3 Telephone: 310-552-4400
Facsimile: 310-552-8400
4 Email: mhashmall@millerbarondess.com
5 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP
Colin C. West (SBN 184095)
6 One Market, Spear Street Tower
San Francisco, California 94105-1596
7 Telephone: (415) 422-1000
Facsimile: (415) 422-1101
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2 I, Michelle L. Cooper, declare as follows:
3 I am employed in San Francisco County, San Francisco, California. I am over the age of
eighteen years and not a party to this action. My business address is MANATT, PHELPS &
4 PHILLIPS, LLP, One Embarcadero Center, 30th Floor, San Francisco, California 94111. On
April 29, 2022, I served the within:
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 METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S
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 METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S
9 MOTION IN LIMINE #1 TO EXCLUDE ARGUMENT AND EVIDENCE
REGARDING THE EXISTENCE OF OFFSETTING BENEFITS AND
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TESTIMONY AND OPINIONS OF JASON BASS
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 METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S
12 MOTION IN LIMINE #2 TO EXCLUDE ARGUMENT AND EVIDENCE
THAT METROPOLITAN DOES NOT OWN THE EXCHANGE WATER
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MOTION IN LIMINE # 3 TO EXCLUDE ARGUMENT AND EVIDENCE
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THAN WHEELING BASED ON STATUTORY UNUSED CAPACITY IN A
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1 John Keker Mark J. Hattam, General Counsel
Daniel Purcell SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER
2 Dan Jackson AUTHORITY
Warren A. Braunig 4677 Overland Avenue
3 Nicholas Goldberg San Diego, CA 92123
Niall Roberts 858.522.6600/Fax: 858.522.6566
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KEKER, VAN NEST & PETERS LLP
633 Battery Street Attorneys for Petitioner and Plaintiff
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San Francisco, CA 94111-1809
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BRUNICK, McELHANEY & KENNEDY Christine M. Carson
11 1839 Commercenter West ALESHIRE & WYNDER, LLP
San Bernardino, CA 92408 2361 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 475
12 P.O. Box 13130 El Segundo, CA 90245-4916
San Bernardino, CA 92423-3130 310.527.6660/Fax: 310.532.7395
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Chelsea Scharf CITY OF TORRANCE
17 OLIVAREZ MADRUGA LEMIEUX 3031 Torrance Boulevard
O'NEILL, LLP Torrance, CA 90503-5039
18 2659 Townsgate Road, Suite 226 310.618.5810/Fax: 310.618.5813
Westlake Village, CA 91361 psullivan@TorranceCA.Gov
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1 MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP Exempt from filing fee pursuant to Barry W. Lee (SBN 88685) Government Code § 6103 2 Justin Jones Rodriguez (SBN 279080) One Embarcadero Center, 30th Floor ELECTRONICALLY 3 San Francisco, California 94111 F I L E D Telephone: (415) 291-7450 Superior Court of California, 4 Facsimile: (415) 291-7474 County of San Francisco Email: bwlee@manatt.com 04/29/2022 5 Email: jjrodriguez@manatt.com Clerk of the Court BY: RONNIE OTERO 6 THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Deputy Clerk Marcia Scully (SBN 80648) 7 Heather C. Beatty (SBN 161907) Patricia J. Quilizapa (SBN 233745) 8 700 North Alameda Street Los Angeles, CA 90012-2944 9 Telephone: (213) 217-6834 Facsimile: (213) 217-6890 10 Email: hbeatty@mwdh2o.com 11 Attorneys for Respondent, Defendant, and Cross-Complainant THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 12 Additional counsel listed on page following caption 13 14 15 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 16 FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 17 SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER Case No. CPF-14-514004, consolidated 18 AUTHORITY, with Case Nos. CPF-16-515282 & CPF-18- Petitioner and Plaintiff, 516389 19 v. Assigned for all purposes to the 20 Hon. Anne-Christine Massullo, Dept. 304 THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT 21 OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE VALIDITY PROOF OF SERVICE 22 OF THE RATES ADOPTED BY THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF 23 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ON APRIL 8, 2014 TO BE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2015 AND 24 JANUARY 1, 2016; and DOES 1-10, 25 Respondents and Defendants. 26 27 28 M ANATT , P HELPS & P HILLIPS , LLP ATTO RNEY S AT LAW SAN FRA NCI S CO PROOF OF SERVICE 1 THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF 2 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 3 Respondent, Defendant and Cross- Complainant, 4 vs. 5 SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER 6 AUTHORITY, 7 Petitioner, Plaintiff and Cross- Defendant. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 M ANATT , P HELPS & P HILLIPS , LLP ATTO RNEY S AT LAW PROOF OF SERVICE SAN FRA NCI S CO CASE NO. CPF-14-514004 1 MILLER BARONDESS LLP Mira Hashmall (SBN 216842) 2 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1000 Los Angeles, California 90067 3 Telephone: 310-552-4400 Facsimile: 310-552-8400 4 Email: mhashmall@millerbarondess.com 5 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP Colin C. West (SBN 184095) 6 One Market, Spear Street Tower San Francisco, California 94105-1596 7 Telephone: (415) 422-1000 Facsimile: (415) 422-1101 8 Email: colin.west@morganlewis.com 9 Attorneys for Respondent, Defendant, and Cross-Complainant THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 M ANATT , P HELPS & P HILLIPS , LLP ATTO RNEY S AT LAW PROOF OF SERVICE SAN FRA NCI S CO CASE NO. CPF-14-514004 1 PROOF OF SERVICE 2 I, Michelle L. Cooper, declare as follows: 3 I am employed in San Francisco County, San Francisco, California. I am over the age of eighteen years and not a party to this action. My business address is MANATT, PHELPS & 4 PHILLIPS, LLP, One Embarcadero Center, 30th Floor, San Francisco, California 94111. On April 29, 2022, I served the within: 5  METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S 6 WITNESS LIST FOR TRIAL 7  METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S PRE-TRIAL BRIEF 8  METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S 9 MOTION IN LIMINE #1 TO EXCLUDE ARGUMENT AND EVIDENCE REGARDING THE EXISTENCE OF OFFSETTING BENEFITS AND 10 OFFSETTING BENEFITS CALCULATIONS, INCLUDING THE TESTIMONY AND OPINIONS OF JASON BASS 11  METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S 12 MOTION IN LIMINE #2 TO EXCLUDE ARGUMENT AND EVIDENCE THAT METROPOLITAN DOES NOT OWN THE EXCHANGE WATER 13 ONCE IT ENTERS LAKE HAVASU 14  METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S MOTION IN LIMINE # 3 TO EXCLUDE ARGUMENT AND EVIDENCE 15 THAT THE WHEELING STATUTES APPLY TO TRANSACTIONS OTHER THAN WHEELING BASED ON STATUTORY UNUSED CAPACITY IN A 16 CONVEYANCE FACILITY 17  DECLARATION OF JUSTIN JONES RODRIGUEZ IN SUPPORT OF METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S 18 MOTIONS IN LIMINE NOS. 1 – 3 19  [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S MOTIONS IN LIMINE NOS. 1 – 3 20 on the interested parties in this action addressed as follows: 21 22 (BY ELECTRONIC SERVICE) By causing each such document to be served by File & 23  ServeXpress™ by transmitting true and correct copies to File & ServeXpress™ to service the parties listed on the Court’s service list. 24 25 26 27 28 M ANATT , P HELPS & P HILLIPS , LLP ATTO RNEY S AT LAW PROOF OF SERVICE SAN FRA NCI S CO CASE NO. CPF-14-514004 1 John Keker Mark J. Hattam, General Counsel Daniel Purcell SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER 2 Dan Jackson AUTHORITY Warren A. Braunig 4677 Overland Avenue 3 Nicholas Goldberg San Diego, CA 92123 Niall Roberts 858.522.6600/Fax: 858.522.6566 4 mhattam@sdcwa.org KEKER, VAN NEST & PETERS LLP 633 Battery Street Attorneys for Petitioner and Plaintiff 5 SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER San Francisco, CA 94111-1809 415.391.5400/Fax: 415.397.7188 AUTHORITY 6 jkeker@keker.com; dpurcell@keker.com; 7 djackson@keker.com; wbraunig@keker.com; ngoldberg@keker.com; nroberts@keker.com 8 Attorneys for Petitioner and Plaintiff SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER 9 AUTHORITY 10 Steven M. Kennedy Stephen R. Onstot BRUNICK, McELHANEY & KENNEDY Christine M. Carson 11 1839 Commercenter West ALESHIRE & WYNDER, LLP San Bernardino, CA 92408 2361 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 475 12 P.O. Box 13130 El Segundo, CA 90245-4916 San Bernardino, CA 92423-3130 310.527.6660/Fax: 310.532.7395 13 909.889.8301/Fax: 909.388.1889 sonstot@awattorneys.com; skennedy@bmklawplc.com ccarson@awattorneys.com 14 Attorneys for THREE VALLEYS Attorneys for MUNICIPAL WATER MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT DISTRICT OF ORANGE COUNTY 15 16 Stephen P. OʼNeill Patrick Q. Sullivan, City Attorney Chelsea Scharf CITY OF TORRANCE 17 OLIVAREZ MADRUGA LEMIEUX 3031 Torrance Boulevard O'NEILL, LLP Torrance, CA 90503-5039 18 2659 Townsgate Road, Suite 226 310.618.5810/Fax: 310.618.5813 Westlake Village, CA 91361 psullivan@TorranceCA.Gov 19 805.495.4770/Fax: 805.495.2787 Attorneys for Real Party in Interest soneill@omlolaw.com; CITY OF TORRANCE 20 cscharf@omlolaw.com Attorneys for Real Party in Interest 21 EASTERN MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT, FOOTHILL MUNICIPAL 22 WATER DISTRICT, LAS VIRGENES MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT, WEST 23 BASIN MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT, and WESTERN MUNICIPAL 24 WATER DISTRICT 25 26 27 28 M ANATT , P HELPS & P HILLIPS , LLP ATTO RNEY S AT LAW PROOF OF SERVICE SAN FRA NCI S CO CASE NO. CPF-14-514004 1 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct and that this declaration was executed on April 29, 2022 at 2 Oakland, California. 3 4 Michelle L. Cooper 5 6 401234927.1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 M ANATT , P HELPS & P HILLIPS , LLP ATTO RNEY S AT LAW PROOF OF SERVICE SAN FRA NCI S CO CASE NO. CPF-14-514004