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October 27, 1997
OCT 2 9191
Mike Robertson Mark Vierling
City Administrator City Attorney
P.O. Box 2007 1835 Northwestern Ave.
Oak Park Heights, MN 55082 Stillwater, MN 55082
Re: Vidana v. City of Oak Park Heights and Michael Kaehler
Gentlemen:
This office will be defending the City of Oak Park Heights and Michael Kaehler in this matter.
I will be the attorney handling this litigation for our office. Gayle Wutschke, my paralegal,
will be assisting me. We will shortly be serving on plaintiffs our Answer.
Please advise us as to the extent in which each of you would like to be informed of the
progress of this litigation. We can copy you with all pleadings and correspondence and keep
you abreast of significant developments in the litigation with periodic status reports if you so
request. We will try to accommodate whatever level of involvement you desire.
We would appreciate any guidance from you regarding the persons at the City with the
greatest knowledge of this incident as well as the names of those at the City who would like to
be informed of developments in the litigation. Please advise the appropriate City personnel of
our involvement m the defense of this litigation, so they will know that we are wearing "white
hats" when we approach them for background interviews.
Please let us know if there is any information which you may need during the course of this
litigation, or if you have any suggestions to aid m the defense of this case.
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY /AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER
October 27, 1997
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We look forward to working with you in the successful defense of this claim.
Very truly yours,
Carla J. Heyl 7 /
LMCIT Staff Attorney
/amr
cc Bob Weisbrod - BRS; #11019840