COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT HOUSTON

ORDER

Cause number: 01-12-00447-CV Style: ConocoPhillips Company v Bascom Craddock and Robert S. Kennedy

In anticipation of oral arguments, scheduled for November 27, 2012, the Court requests supplemental briefing from the parties, supported by relevant legal authorities, on the issues of: (1) whether a finding by the factfinder at trial of this action would operate as ssue preclusion or collateral estoppel on a subsequent arbitration ofTonia Graham’s and Mindy Dicus’s related claims against ConocoPhillips and " (2) a finding m arbitration of Graham’s and Dicus’s related claims against ConocoPhillips would operate as ssue preclusion or collateral estoppel a subsequent trial of this action The Court ORDERS that any such supplemental briefing be filed with, and actually received by, the Court on or before 12:00 p.m. on November 20, 2007.

Judge’s s gnature: /s/Harvey Brown [] Acting individually ¯ [] Acting for the Court Panel consists of Justices Keyes, Massengale, and Brown.

Date: November 5, 2012

November 7, 2008 Revision