10 made by the State regarding the withdrawal of said documentation from the file is herein granted (supra para. 43). 48. On the other hand, along with the evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case requested by the President of the Court, the representative sent additional documents which had not been requested. This file can be classified into seven parts. The first includes copies of documents already submitted by the representative herself or the Inter-American Commission. The second one includes copies of domestic laws. The third one is made up by documents referring to commercial transactions of construction materials (specifically marble) from different companies, some of which apparently are related to witness Roberto Serrago (supra para. 37). The fourth consists of a contract of a work union and a collective labor agreement. The fifth refers to a letter of recommendation in favor of Mr. Bueno-Alves for a job. The sixth corresponds to a contract between Mr. Bueno-Alves’ brother, Delcio Ventura Bueno-Alves, and a third party, by which they created the company Mármol Centro S.R.L., and some documents related to that company. Finally, the seventh consists of two statements: i) the supplemental testimonies of doctors Fernando Taragano and Julio Ravioli (supra para. 37), which were not made before a notary public, and ii) the testimony of Jorge Gustavo Malagamba, made before a notary public (affidavit). 49. The State argued that such evidence should be rejected “since forwarding it at this procedural stage is indubitably untimely.” The Commission did not make any comments thereon. 50. The Court considers that no further comments are necessary regarding the documents submitted, which had been previously forwarded by the representative herself or by the Inter-American Commission, since they were already included in the record of the case. The domestic legislation and the letter of recommendation in favor of the alleged victim may be useful for the assessment of the claims on reparations; therefore, they are admitted and incorporated into the body of evidence. The documents regarding commercial transactions, as well as the labor and collective agreements that were untimely submitted, refer to companies or people foreign to or different from the alleged victim and his next of kin, have no bearing on the facts of the instant case, and, therefore, must be disregarded. The contract of Mr. Bueno-Alves’ brother and the related documents, apart from showing that a company was created, do not disclose any information regarding the instant case, and were untimely submitted; therefore, they are disregarded. Finally, with regard to the statements submitted in the instant case, the Court points out that the representative did not request the Court or its President to authorize that the expert testimony of the physicians that came forward in these proceedings be supplemented, and that said supplemental testimonies were not offered before a notary public; therefore, they are not granted any evidentiary value. Regarding the statement given by Jorge Gustavo Malagamba, the President of the Court expressly stated in its Order of December 6, 2006 (supra para. 10) that “Malagamba’s statement is not relevant for the adjudication of the instant case,” whereby it decided “[n]ot to require the representative” to submit it. The representative disregarded the order of the President and forwarded the statement. In this regard, the Court considers that this evidence is inadmissible as it was deemed inappropriate by the President, and so it declares. 51. Finally, the representative, after submitting her closing written arguments and the evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case requested by the President, filed additional documents that had not been requested, consisting of copies of some publications of a magazine specialized in housing and construction. The representative did not claim force majeure or a serious restraint that would have prevented her from forwarding that information on an earlier date. Said documents were forwarded to the State and the Inter-

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