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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:4321 Review of Agency Action-Environment

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IGNACIA S. MORENO 

Assistant Attorney General 

BEVERLY F. LI (WSBA No. 33267) 

Trial Attorney 

U.S. Department of Justice 

Environment and Natural Resources Division 

Natural Resources Section 

P.O. Box 663 

Washington, D.C. 20044-0663 

Telephone: (202) 353-9213 

Facsimile: (202) 305-0506 

Beverly.Li@usdoj.gov

TONY WEST 

Assistant Attorney General 

JOHN R. GRIFFITHS 

Assistant Director, Federal Programs Branch 

JOHN R. COLEMAN (Va. Bar # 70908) 

Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 

20 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Room 6118 

Washington, D.C. 20530 

Telephone: (202) 514-4505 

Facsimile: (202) 616-8460 

Email: John.Coleman3@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Federal Defendants 

[Complete list of Parties on signature page] 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

Center for Food Safety, et al.,

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

Thomas J. Vilsack, et al., 

 Defendants. 

CASE NO. C-08-0484 JSW 

STIPULATION REGARDING 

BRIEFING AND PAGE LIMITS ON 

PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR 

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 

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 Pursuant to Local Rule 6-2 and this Court’s Order Setting Briefing Schedule Regarding 

Motion For Preliminary Injunction dated January 20, 2010 (the “Briefing Order”) permitting 

stipulation of the parties to modify the existing briefing schedule for Plaintiffs’ Motion for 

Preliminary Injunction (the “PI Motion”), the parties hereby so stipulate to modification of the 

briefing schedule set forth in the Briefing Order as follows: Federal Defendants shall submit 

their Opposition to Plaintiffs’ PI Motion on or before February 12, 2010, and Plaintiffs shall 

submit their consolidated Reply to Federal Defendants’ and Defendant-Intervenors’ Oppositions 

to Plaintiffs’ PI Motion on or before February 19, 2010. The remaining deadlines in the Parties’ 

stipulation that was approved by the Court on January 26, 2010 (Dkt. No. 226) shall remain in 

place. 

 The parties further stipulate that Plaintiffs shall be permitted to filed a consolidated Reply 

that exceeds the applicable page limitation set forth in the Court’s Civil Standing Orders ¶ 6 by 

ten pages, to a total length of not more than twenty-five (25) pages. 

 The parties submit that this Stipulation is for good cause, and in support of this 

Stipulation state as follows. 

1. On January 19, 2010, Plaintiffs filed their PI Motion, together with a 

memorandum of law, 20 declarations and 19 exhibits in support, totaling 676 pages of materials. 

Plaintiffs noticed their PI Motion for hearing on March 5, 2010. 

2. On January 20, 2010, the Court issued the Briefing Order, requiring any 

oppositions to the PI Motion to be filed by February 3, 2010, and any reply in support of the PI 

Motion to be filed by February 10, 2010. The Briefing Order further states that “[i]f the parties 

wish to modify this schedule, they may submit for the Court’s consideration a stipulation and 

proposed order demonstrating good cause for any modification requested.” On January 25, 

2010, the Parties filed a stipulation to revise the Court’s Briefing Order. Dkt. No. 225. The 

Court approved the Parties’ stipulation on January 26, 2010. Under the current briefing 

schedule, Federal Defendants’ and Defendant-Intervenors Oppositions to Plaintiffs’ PI Motion 

are due February 10, 2010. 

3. On February 4, 2010, the Court approved the parties’ joint motion to enlarge page 

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limits, which permitted Plaintiffs to file an opening brief in support of their PI Motion that was 

22 pages in length, and allowed Federal Defendants and Defendant-Intervenors to file 

Opposition to the PI Motion that are 22 pages in length. Dkt. No. 228. The parties did not jointly 

move, and the Court did not address, the issue of an enlargement of page limits for Plaintiffs’ 

Reply. 

4. On February 5-6, 2010, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area experienced a 

record-breaking amount of snowfall. As a consequence of the severely adverse weather 

conditions, the Federal Government in the D.C. area was closed on February 8-9, 2010. A 

subsequent snowstorm is anticipated to begin on February 9, 2010. Because the Federal 

Government has been closed for two business days and because individual Federal Government 

personnel lack sufficient resources outside of their offices to finalize documents needed for 

Federal Defendants’ Opposition to PI Motion, Federal Defendants require additional time 

beyond the February 10, 2010 deadline to respond to the PI Motion. 

5. Defendant-Intervenors expect to file their Opposition to Plaintiffs’ PI Motion by 

February 10, 2010. 

6. Beyond the extension of the due dates for briefs set forth in this Stipulation, the 

parties do not believe the requested time modification would otherwise affect the schedule for 

this case. 

7. Pursuant to Local Rule 6-2(a)(2), the parties state that the following time 

modifications have occurred in this case: 

 On August 4, 2008, the Court continued the hearing date on Plaintiffs’ motion 

for summary judgment pursuant to Defendants’ motion, and continued the 

date for submission of the case management statement, and the date for the 

case management conference pursuant to stipulation of the parties. 

 On June 5, 2008, the Court continued the case management conference to 

August 8, 2008, sua sponte.

 On November 3, 2008, pursuant to the parties’ joint status report, the Court set 

the hearing on Plaintiffs’ Plaintiffs’ summary judgment motion for April 3, 

2009, and ordered the briefing therefore. 

 On March 18, 2009, the Court continued the hearing on the parties’ crossmotions for summary judgment to April 10, 2009 sua sponte. 

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 On March 20, 2009, pursuant to the parties’ joint stipulation, the Court 

continued the hearing on the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment to 

May 22, 2009. On May 20, 2009, the Court vacated the hearing. 

 On January 26, 2010, the Court approved the parties’ stipulation to revise the 

deadlines in the Briefing Order for the parties’ briefing on Plaintiffs’ PI 

Motion. 

For the foregoing reasons, the parties stipulate that the Federal Defendants’ Opposition to 

the PI Motion shall be submitted by February 12, 2010, and that Plaintiffs’ Reply in support of 

the PI Motion shall be submitted by February 19, 2010. The remaining deadlines approved by 

the Court on January 26, 2010 (Dkt. No. 226) shall remain in place. The parties further stipulate 

that Plaintiffs shall have up to twenty-five (25) pages for their consolidated Reply in support of 

the PI Motion. 

Dated: February 9, 2010 Respectfully submitted, 

TONY WEST 

Assistant Attorney General 

JOHN R. GRIFFITHS 

Assistant Director, Federal Programs Branch 

JOHN R. COLEMAN (Va. Bar # 70908) 

Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 

20 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Room 6118 

Washington, D.C. 20530 

Telephone: (202) 514-4505 

Facsimile: (202) 616-8460 

Email: John.Coleman3@usdoj.gov

IGNACIA S. MORENO 

Assistant Attorney General 

 

/s/ Beverly F. Li 

BEVERLY F. LI (WSBA No. 33267) 

Trial Attorney 

U.S. Department of Justice 

Environment and Natural Resources Division 

Natural Resources Section 

P.O. Box 663 

Washington, D.C. 20044-0663 

Tel.: (202) 353-9213 

Facsimile: (202) 305-0506 

Beverly.Li@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Federal Defendants 

HOLLY J. TATE (Ca. Bar No. 237561) 

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

505 Montgomery Street, Suite 1900 

San Francisco, California 94111-2562 

Telephone: (415) 391-0600 

Facsimile: (415) 395-8095 

Email: holly.tate@lw.com 

/s/ Philip J. Perry______________

PHILIP J. PERRY (CA Bar No. 148696 –

admitted) 

JANICE M. SCHNEIDER (DC Bar No. 

472037) (pro hac vice granted) 

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

555 11th Street, N.W., Suite 1000 

Washington, D.C. 20004 

Telephone: (202) 637-2200 

Facsimile: (202) 637-2201 

Email: phil.perry@lw.com 

Email: janice.schneider@lw.com

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STANLEY H. ABRAMSON (DC Bar No. 217281)

(pro hac vice granted) 

RACHEL G. LATTIMORE (DC Bar No.450975) 

(pro hac vice granted) 

ARENT FOX LLP 

1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20036-5339 

Telephone: (202) 857-6000 

Facsimile: (202) 857-6395 

Email: abramson.stanley@arentfox.com 

Email: lattimore.rachel@arentfox.com

 

Attorneys for Intervenor-Defendant Monsanto Company 

JOANNE LICHTMAN (Ca. Bar No. 137300) 

HOWREY LLP 

550 South Hope Street, Suite 1100 

Los Angeles, California 90071-2627 

Telephone: (213) 892-1800 

Facsimile: (213) 892-2300 

Email: lichtmanj@howrey.com 

/s/ Gilbert S. Keteltas______________

GILBERT S. KETELTAS (DC Bar No. 

421236) 

(pro hac vice granted) 

JOHN F. BRUCE (DC Bar No. 1578) (pro hac 

vice granted) 

CHRISTOPHER H. MARRARO (DC Bar No. 

395152) (pro hac vice granted) 

HOWREY LLP 

1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20004-2402 

Telephone: (202) 783-0800 

Facsimile: (202) 383-6610 

Email: keteltasg@howrey.com 

Email: brucej@howrey.com 

Email: marraroc@howrey.com

Attorneys for Intervenor-Defendants American Sugarbeet Growers Association, Ervin 

Schlemmer, Mark Wettstein, Duane Grant, John Snyder, Jr., United States Beet Sugar 

Association, American Crystal Sugar Company, The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC, 

Western Sugar Cooperative 

and Wyoming Sugar Company LLC 

DAVID J. LAZERWITZ (Cal. Bar. No. 

221349 – admitted) 

FARELLA BRAUN + MARTEL LLP 

235 Montgomery Street, 17th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: (415) 954-4400 

Facsimile: (415) 954-4480 

Email: dlazerwitz@fbm.com 

/s/ Nancy Bryson________________

NANCY BRYSON (DC Bar No. 913673) (pro 

hac vice granted) 

HOLLAND & HART LLP 

975 F Street, N.W., Suite 900 

Washington, D.C. 20004 

Telephone: (202) 654-6921 

Facsimile: (202) 747-6567 

Email: nbryson@hollandhart.com 

Attorneys for Intervenor-Defendant Syngenta Seeds, Inc. 

DANIEL M. ABUHOFF (NY Bar No. 

1227057) (pro hac vice granted) 

HARRY ZIRLIN (NY Bar No. 2315737) (pro 

hac vice granted) 

DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON LLP

/s/ Daniel Murphy_____________

DANIEL MURPHY (Ca. Bar No. 141006) 

W. ALLAN EDMISTON (Ca. Bar No. 

228246) 

LOEB & LOEB LLP 

10100 Santa Monica Blvd., 22nd Floor

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919 Third Avenue 

New York, NY 10022 

Telephone: (212) 909-6000 

Facsimile: (212) 909-6836 

Email: dmabuhof@debevoise.com 

Email: hzirlin@debevoise.com 

Los Angeles, California 90067 

Telephone: (310) 282-2000 

Facsimile: (310) 282-2200 

Email: dmurphy@loeb.com 

Email: aedmiston@loeb.com 

Attorneys for Intervenor-Defendant Betaseed, Inc. 

DANIEL BUKOVAC (Mo. Bar No. 33456) 

(pro hac vice granted) 

STINSON MORRISON HECKER LLP 

1201 Walnut Street, Suite 2900 

Kansas City, Missouri 64106 

Telephone: (816) 842-8600 

Facsimile: (816) 412-1051 

Email: dbukovac@stinson.com 

/s/ Sarah G. Flanagan____________

SARAH G. FLANAGAN (CA Bar No. 70845 –

admitted) 

PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN 

LLP 

50 Fremont Street 

P.O. Box 7880 

San Francisco, CA 94120-7880 

Telephone: (415) 983-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 983-1200 

Email: sarah.flanagan@pillsburylaw.com 

Attorneys for Intervenor-Defendant SESVanderHave USA, Inc. 

KEVIN GOLDEN, State Bar No. 233378 

Center for Food Safety 

2601 Mission St., Suite 803 

San Francisco, CA 94110 

T: (415) 826-2770 / F: (415) 826-0507 

Email: kgolden@icta.org 

GREGORY C. LOARIE, State Bar No. 

215859 

Earthjustice 

426 17th Street, 5th Floor 

Oakland, CA 94612 

T: (510) 550-6725 / F: (510) 550-6749 

Email: gloarie@earthjustice.org

/s/ Paul H. Achitoff 

PAUL H. ACHITOFF (Pro Hac Vice) 

Earthjustice 

223 South King Street, Suite 400 

Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813 

T: (808) 599-2436 / F: (808) 521-6841 

Email: achitoff@earthjustice.org 

Counsel for Plaintiffs

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

Center for Food Safety, et al.,

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

Thomas J. Vilsack, et al., 

 Defendants. 

CASE NO. C-08-0484 JSW 

[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING REQUESTED MODIFICATION 

OF BRIEFING SCHEDULE AND PAGE LIMITS ON 

PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

The Court has reviewed the parties’ Stipulation Regarding Briefing On Plaintiffs’ Motion 

For Preliminary Injunction (the “Stipulation”). Upon consideration of the Stipulation, the Court 

hereby GRANTS the requested modification of time for briefing on Plaintiffs’ Motion for 

Preliminary Injunction sought in the Stipulation, as follows: 

1. Intervenor-Defendants’ Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary 

Injunction shall be submitted by February 10, 2010. 

2. Federal Defendants’ Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction 

shall be submitted by February 12, 2010. 

3. Plaintiffs’ Consolidated Reply to Federal Defendants’ and Intervenor-Defendants’ 

Oppositions to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction shall be submitted by 

February 19, 2010. 

4. Plaintiffs shall have up to twenty-five (25) pages for their Consolidated Reply to 

Federal Defendants’ and Intervenor-Defendants’ Oppositions to Plaintiffs’ 

Motion for Preliminary Injunction. 

5. No further depositions shall occur prior to February 22, 2010, other than those 

depositions already noticed. 

6. Hearing on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction shall remain set for 

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March 5, 2010. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 

Dated: ______, 2010 

 Honorable Jeffrey S. White 

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