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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000 Job Discrimination (Sex)

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McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

BRIAN W. ENOS

Assistant United States Attorney

2500 Tulare St., Suite 4401

Fresno, California 93720

Telephone: (559) 497-4000

Facsimile: (559) 497-4099

Attorneys for defendant Gordon England,

Secretary of the Navy

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RONALD L. PORTER, ) 1:03-cv-06291 AWI/SMS

)

Plaintiff, ) STIPULATION AND 

) ORDER EXTENDING BRIEFING 

) SCHEDULE

v. ) 

)

GORDON R. ENGLAND, ) 

Secretary of Department )

of the Navy, )

)

Defendant. )

 )

Plaintiff Ronald L. Porter (“plaintiff”) and defendant Gordon

R. England (“Navy”), by and through the undersigned counsel, hereby

stipulate to the following extended briefing schedule as specified

below and respectfully request that the Court so approve.

On May 1, 2007, the parties attended a status conference

regarding this case before Hon. Sandra M. Snyder. Within this

status conference, the undersigned trial counsel for the Navy

advised the court that it intended to file a Rule 12 motion

regarding this case. The parties thereafter agreed within this

conference to a briefing schedule regarding this motion (and prior

to commencing discovery), as well as to attend a continued status

conference if the Navy’s motion ultimately proved unsuccessful.

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Later that afternoon, the Court issued a minute order setting forth

the following briefing schedule and hearing date: (1) Navy’s motion

to be filed by July 2, 2007, (2) plaintiff’s opposition to be filed

by July 31, 2007, (3) Navy’s reply to be filed by August 10, 2007,

and (4) hearing to take place in Courtroom 2 on August 27, 2007.

(Doc. 36). 

The parties seek to only briefly extend this action’s pending

briefing schedule (approximately two to four weeks) as specifically

set forth below. Good cause exists in support of this stipulation,

and is based on grounds including the following:

Defendant’s undersigned trial counsel is working on the Navy’s

pending Rule 12 motion with counsel at the Navy’s China Lake Weapons

Center (“Navy counsel”). Navy counsel’s assistance is necessary to

the motion, in that he provides invaluable factual data underlying

the same. Last week, the undersigned trial counsel learned that

Navy counsel will be out of the office from Wednesday through Friday

of this week due to what the undersigned understands to be

previously unforeseen off-site meetings. He will also be on vacation

the entire week of July 2, 2007. 

In addition, the undersigned defense counsel is working on a

complex brief in a FOIA matter before Judge Ishii (Schulze v. FBI,

et al., Case No. 1:05-cv-00180) that involves multiple parties and

carries a dispositive motion filing deadline of July 6. In that

case, defense counsel recently learned that pending vacations of at

least two of that matter’s agency counsel requires his securing

necessary declarations and other factual data for that motion this

week.

Moreover, the undersigned defense counsel recently discussed

this action’s present filing deadline with plaintiff’s counsel, and

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plaintiff graciously stipulates to an extended briefing schedule of

two weeks, so long as it does not impact plaintiff’s ability to file

a timely opposition in light of his counsel’s present calendar.

Based on the above, the parties hereby stipulate to the

extension of this action’s dispositive motion briefing schedule and

continued hearing date as follows:

Old Date New Date

Filing of Navy’s Motion July 2, 2007 July 18, 2007

Filing of Plaintiff’s July 31, 2007 August 27, 2007

Opposition 

Filing of Navy’s Reply August 10, 2007 September 5, 2007

Deadline 

Hearing Date: August 27, 2007 September 17, 2007

Dated: June 25, 2007. June 25, 2007

Respectfully submitted,

Law Offices of Elaine W. Wallace McGREGOR W. SCOTT

 United States Attorney

(As auth. 6/25/07)

__/s/ Elaine W. Wallace ____/s/ Brian W. Enos___

ELAINE W. WALLACE BRIAN W. ENOS

Attorneys for Plaintiff Attorneys for defendant

Ronald L. Porter Gordon England, Secretary of the

United States Navy

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 26, 2007 /s/ Sandra M. Snyder 

icido3 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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