UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. Plaintiff-Appellant, Appeal No v.

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1 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERNEST GIBSON, Minor, by his Guardian ad litem, SUSAN M. GRAMLING, Plaintiff-Appellant, Appeal No v. AMERICAN CYANAMID, CO., et al., Defendants-Appellees. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN, CASE NO. 2:07-CV RTR The Honorable Rudolph T. Randa MOTION OF DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY, E.I. du PONT de NEMOURS & CO., NL INDUSTRIES, INC., AND ARMSTRONG CONTAINERS, INC. FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE Defendants-Appellees respectfully request that this Court take judicial notice of the First Amended Complaint in Allen v. American Cyanamid Co., No. 11-C-55 (E.D. Wis. Jan. 26, 2011), another case pending in the District Court involving Wisconsin s lead pigment risk contribution rule. The document is attached as an exhibit to the accompanying declaration of Anthony S. Baish. Judicial notice of its

2 content is authorized by Fed. R. Evid See Opoka v. I.N.S., 94 F.3d 392, 394 (7th Cir. 1996) ( Determinations to be judicially noticed include proceeding[s] in other courts, both within and outside the federal judicial system, if the proceedings have a direct relation to matters at issue. ) (quoting Philips Medical Sys. Int l v. Bruetman, 982 F.2d 211, 215 n.2 (7th Cir. 1992)). As explained in the Statement of Facts of the DefendantsAppellees brief concurrently submitted to this Court, the Allen case presents in a single action the claims of 164 different plaintiffs under Wisconsin s lead pigment risk contribution rule. The number of such claims is relevant to the severity of that rule s effect, an issue addressed in Defendants-Appellees brief. 2

3 Dated this 10th day of November, s/ Anthony S. Baish Philip H. Curtis Bruce R. Kelly Arnold & Porter LLP 399 Park Avenue New York, NY (212) Daniel T. Flaherty Anthony S. Baish (counsel of record) Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. 780 North Water Street, Suite 1500 Milwaukee, WI (414) Attorneys for Defendant-Appellee Atlantic Richfield Company Richard W. Mark Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 200 Park Avenue New York, NY ( 212) Elyse D. Echtman Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 51 West 52nd Street New York, NY (212)

4 Beth Ermatinger Hanan (counsel of record) Ralph Weber Gass Weber Mullins LLC 309 N. Water Street Milwaukee, WI (414) Attorneys for Defendant-Appellee American Cyanamid Company Steven R. Williams Joy C. Fuhr Christian E. Henneke McGuireWoods LLP One James Center 901 East Cary Street Richmond, VA (804) Paul E. Benson (counsel of record) Michael Best & Friedrich 100 E. Wisconsin Avenue #3300 Milwaukee, WI (414) Attorneys for Defendant-Appellee E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Donald E. Scott Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott 1899 Wynkoop Street, Suite 800 Denver CO (303)

5 James T. Murray, Jr. (counsel of record) Michael J. Wirth Peterson, Johnson & Murray, S.C. 733 North Van Buren Street Milwaukee, WI (414) Attorneys for Defendant-Appellee NL Industries, Inc. Robert P. Alpert Hilary Houston Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP 1600 Atlanta Financial Center 3343 Peachtree Road NE Atlanta, GA (404) Timothy A. Bascom (counsel of record) Bascom, Budish & Ceman, S.C North Mayfair Road, Suite 1140 Wauwatosa, WI (414) Attorneys for Defendant-Appellee Armstrong Containers, Inc _1 5

6 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERNEST GIBSON, Minor, by his Guardian ad litem, SUSAN M. GRAMLING, Plaintiff-Appellant, Appeal No v. AMERICAN CYANAMID, CO., et al., Defendants-Appellees. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN, CASE NO. 2:07-CV RTR The Honorable Rudolph T. Randa DECLARATION OF ANTHONY S. BAISH IN SUPPORT OF MOTION OF DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY, E.I. du PONT de NEMOURS & CO., NL INDUSTRIES, INC., AND ARMSTRONG CONTAINERS, INC. FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE ANTHONY S. BAISH declares under penalty of perjury as follows: 1. I am a member of the Wisconsin bar and admitted to practice in this Court. I am a member of the firm of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., counsel for defendant-appellee Atlantic Richfield Company.

7 Godfrey & Kahn acts as Atlantic Richfield s Milwaukee counsel in multiple cases in which Atlantic Richfield has been sued by plaintiffs claiming injury attributable to lead pigment. 2. I make this declaration to provide the Court with the document that is the subject of Defendants-Appellees Motion For Judicial Notice. Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a copy of the First Amended Complaint filed in Allen v. American Cyanamid Co., No. 11-C55, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on January 26, I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed at Milwaukee, Wisconsin this 10th day of November, s/ Anthony S. Baish Anthony S. Baish _1 2

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93 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERNEST GIBSON, Minor, by his Guardian ad litem, SUSAN M. GRAMLING, Plaintiff-Appellant, Appeal No v. AMERICAN CYANAMID, CO., ET AL., Defendants-Appellees. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on November 10, 2011, I caused to be electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of Court for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit by using the CM/ECF system. Participants in the case who are registered CM/ECF users will be served by the CM/ECF system. I further certify that some of the participants in the case are not CM/ECF users. I have caused to be mailed the foregoing document by First-Class Mail, postage prepaid, or have dispatched it to a third-party commercial carrier for delivery within three calendar days, to the following non-cm/ecf participants:

94 Counsel for Defendant/Appellee Millenium Holdings LLC Cortney G. Sylvester NILAN, JOHNSON, LEWIS PA 120 S. Sixth Street 400 One Financial Plaza Minneapolis, MN Counsel for Defendant/Appellee NL Industries Inc. James T. Murray, Jr. PETERSON, JOHNSON & MURRAY, S.C. 733 N. Van Buren Street, 6th Floor Milwaukee, WI Dated this 10th day of November, s/ Anthony S. Baish Anthony S. Baish GODFREY & KAHN, S.C. 780 North Water Street, Suite 1500 Milwaukee, WI (414) Attorneys for Defendant-Appellee Atlantic Richfield Company _1