4 9. On September 27, 2010, the Commission and the State submitted statements given before a public notary. On September 28 and October 4, 2010, the representative and the Commission, respectively, filed their comments on the statements submitted. The State did not render any comments. 10. In a note made by the Secretariat on October 1, 2010, the parties were informed that due to the situation presented in Ecuador in that month, the Court decided to postpone the holding of the XLII Extraordinary Period of Sessions in that country. 11. On October 14 and 19, 2010, the State requested that the Court “reconsider the participation of expert witness Jorge Luis González Izquierdo in the case’s hearing,” since “his statement [would] serve to explain the context in which the facts of this case took place.” On October 25, 2010, the representative filed comments on this request and the Commission stated that “it did not [have] any observations to make.” On November 14, 2010, the plenary of the Court rejected the request for reconsideration filed by the State.7 12. The public hearing was held on November 16, 2010, during the 42nd Extraordinary Period of Sessions of the Court8, held in the city of Quito, Ecuador. 13. A note from the Secretariat of the Court dated December 1, 2010, based on the provisions of Article 58(b) of the Court Rules of Procedure required the parties to file arguments with backup documentation on various subjects regarding the case, along with their written final arguments. Also, on January 11 and February 7 2011, more information was requested of the parties in order to facilitate adjudication. That information was filed on January 24 and Februrary 2 and 3, 2011, respectively. 14. On December 4 and 6, 2010, the representative and the Inter-American Commission filed their final written pleadings and comments in this case. On December 6, 2010, the State submitted its final arguments, submitting their annexes on December 15, 2010. On December 21, 2010 and January 5, 2011, the State submitted “additional information” on the case. On January 21 and February 3, 2011, the representative and the Commission filed their comments on this information. 15. On January 21, 2011, specific information was requested from the representative with regard to arguments and evidence on costs and expenses. That information was not submitted. Moreover, on February 7, 2011, the Court required the representative and the State to present specific information on the alleged victims of the present case.9 This information was submitted on February 14, 2011. III 7 Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of November 14, 2010. 8 The following people attended the hearing: a) for the Inter-American Commission: María Silvia Guillén, Commissioner; Santiago A. Canton, Executive Secretary; Lilly Ching Soto, legal advisor, and Silvia Serrano Guzmán, advisor; b) for the representatives: Juan José Tello Harster, representative, and Guillermo Darío Romero Quispe, SEDAPAL Functionaries, Professionals and Technicians Union Legal Defense Secretary, and c) for the State: Delia Muñoz Muñoz, Special Supranational State’s Attorney; José Pimentel Aliaga, Alternate Agent, SEDAPAL Legal Manager; Daisy Carmela Céspedes Ávila, Advisor, SEDAPAL Registry and Human Resources Control Team Chief, and Jimena Rodríguez Moscoso, Attorney for the Supranational State’s Attorney’s Office. 9 Through the note of the Secretariat on February 7, 2011, the representative and the State were required to provide information regarding Mrs. Sonia Moraima Callirgos Benites’s correct name, whom was identified as an alleged victim in the present case but was not inclused in the expert statements presented by the representatives and the State. In this regard, the representative reported that there was a confusion, given that in the expert report she was listed as Sonia Dupont Gallirgos. On its behalf, the State presented a copy of the identification from the National Idenfication and Civil Status Registry (RENIEC) as well as proof of the labor relation of Mrs. Callirgos Benites with SEDAPAL.