UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

95 Seventh Street, P. O. Box 193939

San Francisco, CA 94119-3939

July 23, 2003

CA No. 03-15170 Hommel v. Squaw Valley Ski

Recently you received notice that the United States Court of Appeals was considering submitting your case without oral argument. That notice reflected the tentative assignment of your case to a panel of the Court assigned to decide cases without oral argument.

Upon further consideration, the Court has decided that your case should be reassigned to an oral argument panel. Although in most instances a reassigned case will receive oral argument, the panel of judges to whom the case will be assigned has discretion to order the case submitted on the briefs without oral argument. When the time and place for argument before or submission to an argument panel has been determined by the Court, our office will notify you by mail.