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1 A. The footnote -- one of the problems with the
2 Word processing program to drop a star footnote is
3 it requires, under the word programing, you have to to
4 have different sections in the document because
5 otherwise it would be footnote -- let's see.
6 Yes, so there was already a footnote 1 on the
7 joinder motion and so, what happens with footnotes is if
8 you identify it as footnote, put in a footnote where the
9 University of Utah signature block is, for example, it
10 becomes footnote 2, so then you have to create a
11 different section and then once you have a different
12 section you can establish a new number and a new
13 nomenclature instead of numbers. You can have the
14 asterisk, and so somehow with the signature block
15 getting reprocessed here, that star footnote dropped off
16 and within I think -- I think it was about three days, I
17 realized that the star footnote had dropped off, so I
18 filed a corrected pleading with the -- with the new star
19 footnote on it.
20 Q. You would agree with me that a fair-minded, a
21 reasonable reader looking at the signature block on the
22 as filed original document, could conclude that the
23 University of Utah was somehow endorsing or standing
24 behind this pleading?
25 A. I don't think that's quite fair. I think the

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