21 1 Q. So is it accurate that after you filed what's 2 Exhibit 2, that the dean of the law school asked you to 3 file a corrected version with the footnote? 4 A. No. That misunderstands what I said. Early 5 on, just in talking -- I do a lot pro bono litigation 6 for crime victims all over the country, and I do that, 7 that's one of the reasons I'm at the University of Utah. 8 They have been very supportive of my pro bono work in 9 this case as well as in other cases, and so the dean 10 said, well, one of the things just might be helpful is 11 to drop a footnote. I don't think it was required that 12 I drop the footnote, nobody suggested it would be useful 13 to drop the footnote, and so I agreed to do that in this 14 case and in other cases as well, but somehow in this 15 particular pleading, the -- as I say, the signature 16 block possibly was a cut-and-paste from an earlier 17 pleading in the case, possibly it was some issue 18 involving that section feature of the word processing 19 program. The star footnote had dropped off. 20 And so once I realized that without anyone 21 calling that to my attention when I looked at the brief 22 a couple of days after we filed it, and said, oh, I need 23 to fix that and did, indeed, fix that as quickly as I 24 could. 25 Q. What was the context in which the dean asked ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021844