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770 MENLO AVENUE, SUITE 101
MENLO PARK, CA 94025
TEL: 650 322-7780
FAX: 650 322—7740
EMAIL: brianwnewcomb@gmail.com
Attorney for Defendants and Cross—Complainants
R.C. Wehmeyer Construction,
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Custom Homes, Robert C. Wehmeyer, and
Defendants American Contractors Indemnity
Company and Robert C. Wehmeyer Design, Inc.
ALBERT M. T. FINCH, III,State Bar #196478
IAN P. WILSON, State Bar # 271075
ERICKSEN ARBUTHNOT
100 BUSH STREET, SUITE 900
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104
TEL: 415 362-7126
FAX: 415 362-6401
EMAIL: afinch@ericksenarbuthnoth.Com
EMAIL: iwi|son@ericksenarbuthnoth.com
Attorneys for Defendant
R.C. Wehmeyer Construction, |nc., dba
Wehmever Custom Homes
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO
MATTHEW SQUIRES; NICOLE Case N0. 18 CIV 00846
SQUIRES, [Unlimited Jurisdiction]
Plaintiffs, DECLARATION OF BRIAN W.
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NEWCOMB IN OPPOSITION TO
vs.
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SQUIRES MOTION FOR TERMINATING
SANCTIONS
R.C. WEHMEYER CONSTRUCTION,
|NC., dba WEHMEYER Date: September 27, 2019
CONSTRUCTION HOMES; ROBERT C. Time:
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9:00 AM
WEHMEYER, an individual; AMERICAN Dept.: 1, Law & Motion
CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY Judge: Leland S. Davis |||
COMPANY; and DOES 1through 20,
inclusive, Action Filed: February 20, 2018
Trial Date: November 12, 2019
Defendants.
R.C. WEHMEYER CONSTRUCTION,
|NC., dba WEHMEYER CUSTOM
HOMES; ROBERT C. WEHMEYER,
Cross-Complainants,
VS.
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DECLARATION OF BRIAN W. NEWCOMB IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF SQUIRES MOTION
FOR TERMINATING SANCTIONS
MATTHEW SQUIRES; NICOLE )
SQUIRES; and ROES 1
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Cross-Defendants.
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I, Brian W. Newcomb, declare as follows:
1. | am the attorney for Defendants and Cross-Complainants R.C.
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Wehmeyer Construction, |nc., dba Wehmeyer Custom Homes (hereinafter
"Wehmeyer Construction") and Robert C. Wehmeyer. Please note the Squires’
Motion is only as to Defendants Robert C. Wehmeyer and R.C. Wehmeyer
Construction.
2. Previously | represented the Cross-Complainants Jeffrey Bordin and
Gregorio Martinez in this case.
3. This Declaration is filed in opposition to the Plaintiff and Cross-
Defendants Matthew and Nicole Squires Motion for Terminating Sanctions filed only
as t0 R.C. Wehmeyer Construction and Robert C. Wehmeyer.
4. The facts set forth herein are based upon my personal knowledge and if
called upon as a witness, |am competent to testify thereto.
5. Messrs. Bordin and Martinez previously hired me to represent them at
the time they were both employees of R.C. Wehmeyer Construction, Inc. The two
individuals
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had worked on the Squires' home and subsequently learned that their
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conversations were being surreptitiously recorded. They never consented they were
being recorded, did not know they were being recorded and after learning they were
being recorded, hired me to represent them in seeking damages of $2,500 for each
of the surreptitious recordings. The damages were sought pursuant to Penal Code
§ 632. Mr. Wehmeyer also seeks damages pursuant to Penal Code § 632 for the
surreptitious recordings. There were additional employees of Wehmeyer
Construction that worked on the Squires' premises where the recordings took place
who chose not to pursue damage claims.
6. Penal Code § 632(3) provides in pertinent part as follows:
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"(a) Every person who, intentionally and without the consent of all
parties to a confidential communication, by means of any electronic
amplifying or recording device eavesdrops upon or records the
confidential communication, whether the communication is carried on
among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a
telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio, shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per
violation, or imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year,...",
emphasis added.
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7. Prior to filing the Cross—Complaint on behalf of Messrs. Bordin and
Martinez, | met with each of them and reviewed the case. They each requested |
represent them in pursuing their damage claims as a result of the surreptitious
recordings. The facts were reviewed with Messrs. Bordin and Martinez and each
was provided with an endorsed-filed copy of the Cross-Complaint filed on their
behalves.
8. After the filing of the Cross—Complaint, Nicole Squires served her first
Specially Prepared Interrogatories as well as first Form Interrogatories on each of the
Cross-Complainants, that is Messrs. Bordin and Martinez. Attached hereto as Exhibit
A is the Verified Response by Jeffrey Bordin to Nicole Squires First Form
Interrogatories. Attached hereto as Exhibit B is a Verified Response by Jeffrey
Bordin to Nicole Squires First Specially Prepared Interrogatories. Attached hereto as
Exhibit C is Gregorio Martinez Verified Response to Nicole Squires First Form
Interrogatories.
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to Nicole Squires First Specially Prepared Interrogatories.
9. Please note that of the four verifications set forth above, 1 belonging to
Messrs. Bordin and Martinez, they each signed those Verifications after reviewing the
Interrogatory Answers obtaining information such as biographical facts about each.
Additionally, each of these Cross—Complainants was duly noticed for Deposition by
the Squires as parties to the action. The undersigned appeared as attorney of record
for Cross-Complainant Mr. Bordin at his first deposition session. See Exhibit E
attached hereto which is a copy of the cover page for the Deposition and list of
attorneys appearing and for whom they appeared as well as the introductory
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questions. See also Declaration of Robert C. Wehmeyer who met with each of these
parties at the time they were working for him as employees when issues concerning
the litigation and the recordings were discussed with Messrs. Bordin and Martinez as
well as other employees who have been recorded.
10. In or around November 2018, Mr. Bordin and Wehmeyer Construction
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had a parting of the ways. As part of the ceasing to work for Wehmeyer
Construction, Mr. Bordin agreed to return the truck which was supplied by Wehmeyer
Construction for his use as well as the computer, charger, keyboard, pen, protective
cover and records of Wehmeyer Construction such as receipts reports, permit cards,
etc. Attached hereto as Exhibit F is a true and accurate copy of an email which |
forwarded to Robert C. Wehmeyer on December 5, 2018, at 3:17 PM regarding Jeff
Bordin returning the items to R.C. Wehmeyer Construction Inc. The email has
attached to it a list of items that Mr. Bordin prepared to memorialize what he returned
in accordance with the parties agreement to my office for delivery to Wehmeyer
Construction. The listwas prepared by Mr. Bordin and delivered to me on December
5, 2018.
11. The items which were delivered to me for return to Wehmeyer
Construction were listed by Mr. Bordin himself. See Exhibit F. Mr. Bordin does not
identify
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anywhere therein anything about drawings, plans, sketches, floor plans,
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change orders, notes, or a notebook containing any information whatsoever. No
such documents were delivered to me.
12. Mr. Wehmeyer in his Declaration points out he never saw Mr. Bordin
with a notebook and never saw a journal in Mr. Bordin’s possession. | attended the
deposition of Mr. Gregorio and have attached hereto accurate pages from Mr.
Martinez’ July 10, 2019 Deposition page 47 line 3, in response to Mr. Mengarelli’s
question to him at page 48 line 3: “Q. Would you make notes for the project?” His
answer, “A. No.” Mr. Mengarelli at page 47 line 12 to line 14 had this exchange with
Gregorio Martinez: “Q. Okay. And besides the Squires project, did you keep a
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notebook orjob journal for other projects? A. “No.” Page 47 lines 12-14.
13. Then Mr. Mengarelli on July 10, 2019, continuing the same deposition,
asks Gregorio Martinez “Q. Would you keep those notes or would you throw them
away when you were done with them? A. | would throw them away every time |
washed my truck.” Depo of July 10, 2019, page 47 lines 22-25.
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14. Then in regard to the Squires’ counsel’s argument that Mr. Bordin had a
notebook the testimony is the opposite in Mr. Martinez’ recollection, as well as the
design person at Wehmeyer Design, ie. Katrina Hall.
15. In response to questions by Mr. Mengarelli at his July 10, 2019
Deposition, Mr. Mengarelli’s examination of Mr. Martinez at pgs. 47-48, Ins. 1-14 are
as follows:
“Q. Okay.
Did Rob Wehmeyer ever ask you to give him any of your notes
from the project?
A. BladBecause | didn’t keep any notes. The manager was Jeff
or In.
Q. Do you know whether or not Jeff Bordin kept notes?
A. |
don’t know.
Q. Did you ever see Jeff Bordin with a job journal?
A. |
don’t remember.
Q. How about a notebook?
A. No. Sometimes he had documents or a folder, but itwas always
different.”
Pages
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all the excerpts from the Martinez Deposition are attached hereto as Exhibit G.
16. Additionally, the Motion for Sanctions filed is replete with blatantly false
factual representations to this Court.
17. Emphasis of the false recitations are at pg. 1, Ins. 26 to 27 of the
Squires’ Memo of Points and Authorities, the author Ms. Glatt “...neither Bordin nor
Martinez authorized counsel for RCWC Brian W. Newcomb to file a Cross-
Complainant on their behalf against Plaintiffs.”
18. The facts testified under oath by Mr. Bordin in Vol. |of his Deposition in
response to Ms. Glatt’s question about Exhibit 3 to the deposition which was Mr.
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Bordin’s response to a question about Exhibit 3 which was his written response to the
Squires’ First Form Interrogatories. See page 27 of the subject deposition excerpts
attached hereto as Exhibit H. At page 28, lines 4 to page 29, line 6. Mr. Bordin
testified in that response to Ms. Glatt’s question that his signature is 0n the
Verification to his response. The questions by Ms. Glatt and responses by Mr. Bordin
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are as follows:
“Q. These are your first set of responses and these are your second.
So the first time you responded, and I’m showing him with the
verification, was May 21St, 2018; is that correct?
A. Yes.
Q. And that is your signature?
A. Yes.
Q. That states you’re a party to this matter?
A. Yes.
Q. That states you’re familiar with the documents?
A. Yes.
Q. And that those answers are true, to the best of your knowledge?
A. Yes.
Q. So these are the supplemental responses. Is that your
signature?
A. Yes.
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end that supplemental response is dated September 13 2018?
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Q. So you met with your attorney? And I’m not asking for the
contents of the conversation, I’m asking you, you met with your
attorney and signed these documents; correct?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you review the information prior to signing the documents
that are contained here?
A. Yes.”
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16. Whereas Ms. Glatt misrepresents to this Court in her Brief that
“Plaintiffs learned that Mr. Newcomb did not represent Mr. Bordin or Mr. Martinez
personally, and that neither understand the cross-claim for alleged recordings was in
their individual capacity. (Glatt Dec., Mengarelli Dec.).” Thus, Ms. Glatt wrote that
Mr. Mengarelli made the identical representation to this Court. Mr. Mengarelli was at
Mr. Bordin’s deposition on October 16, 2018. See page 2 of the 10/16/2018
Deposition Transcript attached hereto as Exhibit H.
17. Now, when we compare the testimony of Mr. Bordin in response to Ms.
Glatt’s question and Mr. Bordin’s testimony, we learn the true facts are as follows at
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page 34, lines 4 to 14 of Mr. Bordin’s Deposition Transcript of his October 16, 2018
deposition taken by April Glatt attached excerpts attached as Exhibit H.
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Q. this your firstlawsuit?
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Do you know why you’re suing Matt and Nikki?
p>p>p> Recordings, illegally being recorded.
What were you illegally recorded about?
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Anything? So tell me about what you spoke about on that
property.
> | spoke about the project, |spoke about - - |couldn’t recall allthe
conversations that |had while being at their property.”
18. These examples of factual misrepresentations are not isolated
occurrences in the moving papers filed by Squires’ counsel.
19. Ms. Glatt presented to this Court the representation to this Court that
Mr. Bordin’s testimony at the last deposition 0n June 28, 2019 (Exhibit I) as follows:
“Bordin also testified that, while he worked for RCWC, he created a
form to use to document change orders. (Id. at 1113). According to
Bordin, he would ‘handwrite out’ change orders for this project on this
form and give it to Wehmeyer, who would then keep it. (Id. 1113.)
Bordin testified that he also kept information about the project in a
notebook, which he left in his desk when he stopped working for
RCWC. (Id. at 1113.) Bordin testified that he last remembered seeing
the notebook in November 2018 and that Wehmeyer knew about it.
(|d.)” Page 5 of Brief authored by Ms. Glatt, lines 1-7.
20. Mr. Bordin’s prior testimony under oath at his deposition on October 16,
2018, before
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losing his job at R.C. Wehmeyer Construction Inc. in response to Ms.
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Glatt’s question is the opposite of Mr. Bordin’s testimony referenced in Ms. Glatt’s
Brief, where she refers to Mr. Bordin’s deposition of June 28, 2019. Squires’ counsel
gives the source on “P. 13” which is not a deposition reference, itis simply 1113 in her
Declaration.
21. Mr. Bordin in response to questions by Ms. Glatt in his deposition on
October 16, 2019, Ms. Glatt did not inform the Court of the facts stated by Mr. Bordin
on October 16, 2019, when perhaps his memory was better because itwas a year
closer in time approximately to the job.
22. Ms. Glatt in examining Mr. Bordin on October 16, 2019, asked Mr.
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Bordin the following to which he replied:
“Q. Did you ever put in writing a change order?
p> Me, personally, no.
Do you know of any change orders ever put in writing by anyone
during the course of the project?
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Who did that?
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Did you ever see them?
No.”
Page 44 of Mr. Bordin’s Deposition, lines 5-13, October 16, 2019, attached
hereto as Exhibit H.
23. Please note that Mr. Bordin’s reply indicates he never saw a change
order. Mr. Wehmeyer has stated consistently and does so in his Declaration filed
herein he does not do change orders on anyjob, he liststhe change as a line item on
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DECLARATION OF BRIAN W. NEWCOMB IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF SQUIRES MOTION
FOR TERMINATING SANCTIONS
Exhibit
Exhibit A
BRIAN W‘ NEWCOMB, C.S.B. #55156
ATTORNEY AT LAW
770 MENLO AVENUE, SUITE 101
MENLO PARK, CA 94025
TEL: 650 3227780
FAX: 650 322~7740
EMAIL: brianwnewcomb@gmail.com
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Attorney for Defendants and Cross-Complainants
R.C. Wehmeyer Construction, |nc., dba Wehmeyer
Custom Homes, Robert C. Wehmeyer, Cross-
Complainants Jeffrey Bordin, Gregorio Martinez
and Defendant American Contractors Indemnity
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNlA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO
MATTHEW SQUIRES; NICOLE Case No. 18 CIV 00846
SQUIRES, [Unlimited Jurisdiction]
vs.
Plaintiffs, CROSS-COMPLAINANT JEFFREY
BORDIN’S
SQUIRES’
RESPONSE TO
FIRST FORM
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INTERROGATORIES
R.C. WEHMEYER CONSTRUCTION,
INC., dba WEHMEYER
CONSTRUCTION HOMES; ROBERT C.
WEHMEYER, an individual; AMERICAN
CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY
COMPANY; and DOES 1 through 20,
inclusive,
Defendants;
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RC. WEHMEYER CONSTRUCTION,
INC., dba WEHMEYER CUSTOM
HOMES; ROBERT C.~WEHMEYER;
JEFFREY BORDIN; and GREGORIO
MARTINEZ,
Cross-Complainants,
vs.
MATTHEW SQUIRES; NICOLE
SQUIRES; and ROES 1 -
10,
Cross—Defendants.
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CRoss-COMPLAINANT JEFFREY BORDIN’S RESPONSE To NICOLWQ
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FIRST FORM INTERROGATORIES
RESPONDING PARTY: Cross—Compiainant Jeffrey Bordin.
PROPOUNDING PARTY: Plaintiff and Cross-Defendant Nicoie Squires.
SET NUMBER: One.
TO: Plaintiff and Cross-Defendant Nicole Squires AND TO HER
ATTORNEYS
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OF RECORD Michael Mengarelli of Kelly Litigation Group and April S.
Glatt of Chauvel & Glatt LLP.
Jeffrey Bordin hereby provides Responses to Nicole Squires’ First Form
lnterrogatories served on April 10, 2018 as follows:
GENERAL OBJECTION
Jeffrey Bordin is engaged in continuing discovery in this case. Therefore, alt
the answers contained herein are based upon such information and documents as
are presently available and known t0 Jeffrey Bordin and discloses only those
contentions which presently occur to him. There are potential witnesses which have
not been deposed, documents which have not been reviewed or obtained, analysis
which has not been completed, and other discovery and investigation which has not
been finished. Discovery and investigation are continuing. Jeffrey Bordin therefore
provides the following Responses to Nicole Squires First Form lnterrogatories without
prejudice to present at trialfurther documentary or oral evidence or analysis not yet
obtained
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or completed.
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The Responses are made solely for the purpose of and in relation to this
action. Each answer is given subject to all appropriate objections (including, but not
iimited to, objections of competency, relevancy, materiality, propriety, and
admissibility) which would require the exclusion of any statement contained herein if
the Interrogatory were asked of, or any statement contained herein were made by, a
witness present and testifying in court. AH such objections and ground therefore are
reserved and may be interposed at the time of trial. Except for facts explicitly
admitted herein, no admission "of
any nature whatsoever is to be implied or inferred.
The fact that any Interrogatory herein has been answered should not be taken as an
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FIRST FORM INTERROGATORIES
admission or a concession of the existence of any fact set forth or assumed by each
interrogatory, nor that such answer constitutes evidence of any fact thus set forth or
assumed. All answers must be construed as given on the basis of present
fecollection.
The fact that Jeffrey Bordin has responded to part or all of any Interrogatory is
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not intended and shall not be construed to be a waiver by him of all or any part of any
objection to any lnterrogatory.
RESPONSES
Response to Form Interrogatorv (hereinafter “FI”) No. 1.1:
Brian W. Newcomb, 770 Menlo Ave., Ste. 101, Menlo Park, CA 94205.
Response to Fl No. 2.1 La):
Jeffrey Bordin.
Response to Fl No. 2.2:
Objection, my age isirrelevant t0 the subject matter of this action.
Response to Fl No. 2.3 (aHdL
Objection, this is not an auto accident, my driver’s license and whether I am
licensed is irrelevant to the subject matter of this action.
Response to Fl No. 2.5 (chL
can be contacted
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Ave., Ste. 101, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
Response to Fl No. 2.6 (ath
Robert C. Wehmeyer Construction, Inc. I have been with Robert C.
Wehmeyer Construction, Inc. for approximately one (1) year.
Response to Fl No. 2.7 La)-(d):
My education, ifany, is irrelevant to the subject matter of this action.
Response to Fl No. 2.8 (aHd):
No.
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CROSS—COMPLAINANT JEFFREY BORDIN’S RESPONSE TO NICOLE SQUIRES’
FIRST FORM iNTERROGATORlES
Response to Fl No. 2‘9:
Yes.
Response to Fl No. 5‘10:
Yes.
Response
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to Fl No. 2.11 (aHb):
At time of the INCIDENT, I was employed by Robert C. Wehmeyer
Construction, Inc. and working on the Squires house in the course of a remodel.
Response to Fl No. 2.12 (ch):
No.
Response to Fl No. 2.13 (qu):
No.
Response to Fl No. 4.1 (aHg):
Not to my knowledge.
Response to Fl No. 4.2:
No.
Response to Fl No. 6.1 :
No.
Responsé to Fl No. 6.2:
No
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part of my body affected the Cross—Defendants violation my rights of
privacy and Penal
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Code § 632.
Response to Fl No. 6.34a)-fi:):
Inever had any complaints regarding physical injuries caused by the violation
of my rights of privacy.
Resmnse to Fl No. 6.4LaHd):
No.
Response to Fl No. aflal-Le):
N0.