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Nature of Suit Code: 864
Nature of Suit: Social Security - SSID Title XVI
Cause of Action: 42:402 Social Security Benefits

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Stipulated Motion for Extension of Time Case No. 1:20-cv-01386-JLT-BAM

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PHILLIP A. TALBERT 

United States Attorney

PETE THOMPSON

Acting Regional Chief Counsel

Oscar Gonzalez de Llano

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Social Security Administration

160 Spear Street, Suite 800

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (510) 970-4818

Email: Oscar.Gonzalez@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ASHLEY ANN YAMADA,

Plaintiff,

v.

KILOLO KIJAKAZI,

Acting Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

No. 1:20-cv-01386-JLT-BAM

STIPULATED MOTION AND 

ORDER FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO 

RESPOND TO PLAINTIFF’S OPENING 

BRIEF

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between the parties through their respective 

counsel of record, with the Court’s approval, that Defendant’s time for responding to Plaintiff’s 

Opening Brief be extended seventy (70) days from February 10, 2022, to April 21, 2022. This is 

Defendant’s first request for an extension. Counsel for Plaintiff has no objection to Defendant’s 

request for an extension. 

Good cause exists for this request. Defendant respectfully requests this additional time 

because Counsel for Defendant will be unable to devote the time required to complete 

Defendant’s response to Plaintiff’s Opening Brief given the current due date. The undersigned 

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attorney has been out of the office on extended paternity leave for the past couple months and 

returned full-time last week after unexpectedly spending an additional week out of the office 

caring for his 3 year old son due to COVID. As this Court no doubt knows, Social Security case 

filings in federal court increased significantly in the past year. The increased filings, 

compounded by COVID-related delays in transcript production and attorney attrition, have 

resulted in an increased workload and competing deadlines. Counsel for Defendant currently has 

twenty (20) merit briefs currently due in district court cases over the next 30 days and an 

additional eighteen (18) merit briefs currently due in district court cases in 30-60 days. Given 

this current workload a lengthy extension until April 21, 2022 should provide an opportunity for

the undersigned Counsel for Defendant to complete the response to Plaintiff’s Opening Brief. 

Furthermore, a reassignment of this matter to another staff attorney is currently not tenable given 

the high volume of cases that all of our limited staff (due to leave and resignations) is handling. 

Counsel apologizes to the Court for any inconvenience caused by this delay. All other dates in 

the Court’s Scheduling Order shall be extended accordingly. 

Respectfully submitted,

PHILLIP A. TALBERT 

United States Attorney

DATE: January 22, 2022 By: s/ Oscar Gonzalez de Llano

OSCAR GONZALEZ DE LLANO

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

Respectfully submitted,

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATE: January 22, 2022 By: s/ Jonathan O. Pena* 

Jonathan O. Pena, Esq.

Pena & Bromberg, Attorneys at Law 

(*as authorized by email)

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ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, and good cause appearing, IT IS ORDERED that 

Defendant shall have an extension, up to and including April 21, 2022, to respond to Plaintiff’s 

Opening Brief. All other deadlines in the Court’s Scheduling Order are extended accordingly. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 25, 2022 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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