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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 16:1538 Endangered Species Act

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[Proposed] Order Granting Federal

Defendants’ Motion to Stay

2:05-cv-00629-LKK-GGH

KELLY A. JOHNSON

Acting Assistant Attorney General

United States Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

JEAN E. WILLIAMS, Chief

LISA L. RUSSELL, Assistant Chief

KEVIN W. McARDLE, Trial Attorney (SBN 454569 (DC)) (Counsel for Service)

Wildlife and Marine Resources Section

Benjamin Franklin Station, P.O. Box 7369

Washington, D.C. 20044-7369

Telephone: (202) 305-0219

Facsimile: (202) 305-0275

McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

E. ROBERT WRIGHT

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, California 95814

Tele: (916) 554-2704

Attorneys for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; BUILDING

INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION;

CALIFORNIA BUILDING INDUSTRY

ASSOCIATION; CALIFORNIA STATE

GRANGE; and GREENHORN GRANGE, 

Plaintiffs,

v.

UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE

SERVICE; MATTHEW J. HOGAN, Acting

Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife

Service; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF

INTERIOR; and GALE A. NORTON, Secretary of

the United States Department of Interior, 

Defendants.

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Case No: 2:05-cv-00629-LKK-GGH

ORDER GRANTING FEDERAL

DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO

STAY

Date: June 13, 2005

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: 15th Floor

Courtroom No. 4

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[Proposed] Order Granting Federal

Defendants’ Motion to Stay

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This matter is before the Court upon Federal Defendants’ Motion to Stay, Plaintiffs’

response, and Federal Defendants’ reply. 

 For good cause shown, it is hereby ORDERED that: 

(1) Federal Defendants’ Motion is Stay is GRANTED; 

(2) All further proceedings in this case are STAYED until July 31, 2005, by which

date the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is scheduled to publish its final rule required by

paragraph 8 of the October 29, 2004 Memorandum and Order issued by the Court in Butte

Environmental Council, et al. v. Norton, No. 2:04-cv-00096-WBS-KJM (E.D. Cal.); and

(3) No later than fourteen days after the publication of the final rule referenced in

paragraph (2) above, the parties shall file a joint status report proposing a schedule for further

proceedings in this case. 

It is SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 8, 2005. /s/Lawrence K. Karlton 

United States District Judge

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