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Letter in support of petition for review regarding (a) the important and recurring issue of California insurance law concerning whether and when a policyholder may offer extrinsic evidence to prove that language in an insurance policy that a court has found to be unambiguous in fact is either latently ambiguous or has a special meaning through usage, see Civ. Code, § 1644; as well as (b) whether the exception to the standard form qualified pollution exclusion for a “sudden and accidental” discharge, dispersal, release or escape of pollutants is limited to “abrupt” polluting events.