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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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Stip. on Attorney’s Fees and Costs, Case No. 07-cv-01654-AWI-GSA

RONALD J. TENPAS

Assistant Attorney General 

Environment & Natural Resources Division

CYNTHIA HUBER

Assistant Section Chief

United States Department of Justice 

Environment & Natural Resources Division

P.O. Box 663

Washington, DC 20044-0663

BARCLAY SAMFORD

Trial Attorney

Natural Resources Section

Environment & Natural Resources Division

U.S. Department of Justice

1961 Stout Street - 8th Floor

Denver, CO 80294

Telephone: (303) 844-1475

Facsimile: (303) 844-1350

Attorneys for Defendants

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SIERRA FOREST LEGACY, SIERRA

CLUB, EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE,

and CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT

SOCIETY, non-profit organizations,

 Plaintiffs,

v. 

BERNARD WEINGARDT, in his official

capacity as Regional Forester, Region 5,

United States Forest Service, EDWARD

COLE, in his official capacity as Forest

Supervisor, Sierra National Forest

United States Forest Service, ABIGAIL

R. KIMBELL, in her official capacity as

Chief of the United States Forest Service,

and UNITED STATES FOREST

SERVICE, an agency of the United States

Department of Agriculture,

 Defendants.

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CASE NO: 07-cv-1654-AWI-GSA

STIPULATION AND

ORDER ON

ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS

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Stip. on Attorney’s Fees and Costs, Case No. 07-cv-01654-AWI-GSA - 1 -

Plaintiffs and Defendants, by their undersigned attorneys, have conferred and hereby

stipulate as follows:

1. Defendants will pay Plaintiffs ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in full and complete

satisfaction of any and all claims, demands, rights, and causes of action pursuant to the Equal

Access to Justice Act (“EAJA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), and/or any other statute and/or common

law theory, for all attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by Plaintiffs, individually and/or severally, in

this litigation.

2. The Parties agree that Plaintiff Sierra Club is not eligible for attorneys fees as a

plaintiff under EAJA; provided, however, that Sierra Club attorneys may be reimbursed for legal

services rendered to EAJA-eligible parties.

3. Forest Service’s payment, as identified in Paragraph 1 above, shall be

accomplished by the Forest Service using an electronic fund transfer into the Earthjustice

Attorney Client Trust Account Fund, The Mechanics Bank, Richmond CA. Plaintiffs’ attorneys

shall provide the appropriate account number to the undersigned Forest Service counsel. 

Defendants shall submit the paperwork for the payment within twenty (20) days after this

stipulation is entered by the Court or Plaintiffs provide the necessary information as required by

Paragraph 3 to facilitate the payment, whichever is later. Plaintiffs’ attorneys shall notify the

Defendants’ attorneys when payment is received.

4. Plaintiffs and their attorneys agree to hold harmless Defendant in any litigation,

further suit, or claim arising from the deposit of the agreed-upon $10,000.00 settlement amount

into the Client Trust Account identified in Paragraph 3 above. 

5. This stipulation is the result of compromise and settlement and does not represent

an admission by any Party to any fact, claim, or defense in any issue in this lawsuit. This

stipulation has no precedential value and shall not be cited in any other litigation except as

necessary to enforce the terms of the stipulation. 

6. No provision of this stipulation shall be interpreted as or constitute a commitment

or requirement that Defendants obligate or pay funds in violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act, 31

U.S.C. § 1341, or any other applicable appropriations law.

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7. Nothing in the terms of this stipulation shall be construed to limit or deny the

power of a federal official to promulgate or amend regulations. 

8. The undersigned representatives of the Parties certify that they are fully authorized

by the respective Parties whom they represent to enter into the terms and conditions of this

stipulation and to legally bind such Parties to it.

9. This stipulation represents the entirety of the Parties’ commitments with regard to

settlement. The terms of this agreement shall become effective upon approval by the Court of this

stipulation.

IT IS HEREBY AGREED.

Respectfully submitted this 18 day of April, 2008, th

RONALD J. TENPAS

Assistant Attorney General 

Environment & Natural Resources Division

/s/ Barclay Samford 

BARCLAY SAMFORD

Trial Attorney

Natural Resources Section

Environment & Natural Resources Division

U.S. Department of Justice

1961 Stout Street - 8th Floor

Denver, CO 80294

Attorney for Defendants

 /s/ George M. Torgun 

GEORGE M. TORGUN

MICHAEL R. SHERWOOD

MICHAEL GRAF

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sierra Forest Legacy,

Sierra Club, and California Native Plant Society

 /s/ Rachel M. Fazio 

RACHEL M. FAZIO

Attorney for Plaintiff Earth Island Institute

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION,

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 18, 2008 /s/ Anthony W. Ishii 

0m8i78 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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