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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 05:0701 Maritime Subsidy Board

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MICHAEL E. WALL (Cal. Bar #170238) 

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. 

111 Sutter Street, 20th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Tel: 415.875.6100; Fax: 415.875.6161 

mwall@nrdc.org

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

JAN HASSELMAN (Wash. Bar #29107), Admitted Pro Hac Vice

PATTI GOLDMAN (Wash. Bar #24426), Admitted Pro Hac Vice

Earthjustice

705 Second Avenue, Suite 203 

Seattle, Washington 98104 

Tel: 206.343.7340; Fax: 206.343.1526 

jhasselman@earthjustice.org; pgoldman@earthjustice.org 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs PANNA and PCUN 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

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PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK NORTH AMERICA; ) Case No. C. 06-01366 MMC 

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PHYSICIANS FOR ) 

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; PINEROS Y CAMPESINOS ) STIPULATION AND

UNIDOS DEL NOROESTE; and NATURAL ) [PROPOSED] ORDER

RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., ) GRANTING STAY OF 

 Plaintiffs, ) LITIGATION 

 v. ) 

) Administrative Procedure Act

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ) Case 

AGENCY; and STEPHEN L. JOHNSON, )

Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection ) 

Agency, )

 Defendants. )

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING STAY OF LITIGATION 

Case No. C. 06-01366 MMC 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

WHEREAS, the plaintiffs filed the Complaint in this action on February 23, 2006; and 

WHEREAS, the Complaint challenges the final rule of the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (“EPA”) entitled Protections for Subjects in Human Research, 71 Fed. Reg. 6138 (Feb. 

6, 2006) (“Human Testing Rule”); and 

WHEREAS, the Human Testing Rule cites six different sources of statutory authority for 

its promulgation: (1) section 201 of the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related 

Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, Public Law No. 109–54 (“Appropriations Act”); sections 

3(a) & 25(a) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (“FIFRA”), 7 U.S.C. §§ 

136a(a) and 136w(a); section 408(e)(1)(C) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 

Act (“FFDCA”), 21 U.S.C. § 346a(e)(1)(C); 5 U.S.C. § 301; and 42 U.S.C. § 300v-1(b); and 

WHEREAS, section 16(a) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. § 136n(a) provides that certain final 

actions of the Administrator under FIFRA are judicially reviewable in the United States District 

Courts, as further specified in that section; and 

WHEREAS, section 408(h)(1) of the FFDCA provides for certain regulations 

promulgated under the FFDCA to be reviewed in the United States Courts of Appeals, as further 

specified in that section; and

 WHEREAS, no Court has yet determined whether original subject matter jurisdiction 

over challenges to the Human Testing Rule properly lies in the District Courts, the Courts of 

Appeals, or both; and

WHEREAS, the plaintiffs have therefore also filed petitions for review challenging the 

Human Testing Rule in the Second and Ninth Circuits, where they are respectively 

headquartered; and 

WHEREAS, petitions for review challenging the Human Testing Rule have been filed by 

other parties in the Fifth, Sixth, and District of Columbia Circuits; and 

 WHEREAS, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2112(a)(3) & (5) and a March 21, 2006, 

consolidation order of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, the petitions for review filed 

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in the Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and District of Columbia Circuits will be transferred to and 

consolidated in the Second Circuit; and

 WHEREAS, defendants U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Administrator, 

Stephen L. Johnson, do not dispute that the Second Circuit properly has original subject matter 

jurisdiction over the petitions for review filed by the plaintiffs in the Second and Ninth Circuits, 

which have been ordered consolidated in the Second Circuit; and 

 WHEREAS, plaintiffs filed their complaint in this case as a protective matter, pending a 

ruling that the Court of Appeals properly has original subject matter jurisdiction over their 

petitions for review; and 

 WHEREAS, the parties have agreed that it is appropriate to stay this district court 

litigation until such time as the Court of Appeals determines that it does not have original subject 

matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ petitions for review challenging the Human Testing Rule or 

otherwise finally resolves those petitions; 

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THEREFORE, it is hereby ORDERED, that all proceedings in this case are STAYED 

pending further order of this COURT; and 

It is further ORDERED that the parties shall promptly inform this Court should the Court 

of Appeals determine that it does not have original subject matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ 

petitions for review challenging the Human Testing Rule or those petitions for review are 

otherwise finally resolved. 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING STAY OF LITIGATION 

Case No. C. 06-01366 MMC 

It is further ORDERED that the parties shall file, no later than November 1, 2006, and

every six months thereafter, a joint status report apprising the Court of the status of the

petitions for review.

Dated: May 3, 2006

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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 Respectfully Submitted, 

 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. 

Dated: May 1, 2006_________ By: /s/_______________________________

MICHAEL E. WALL (Cal. Bar #170238) 

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. 

111 Sutter Street, 20th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

EARTHJUSTICE

JAN HASSELMAN (Wash. Bar #29107), 

Admitted Pro Hac Vice

PATTI GOLDMAN (Wash Bar. #24426), 

Admitted Pro Hac Vice

705 Second Avenue, Suite 203 

Seattle, Washington 98104 

Tel: 206.343.7340; Fax: 206.343.1526 

jhasselman@earthjustice.org; pgoldman@earthjustice.org 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs PANNA and PCUN 

KEVIN V. RYAN (SBN 118321) 

United States Attorney 

JOANN M. SWANSON (SBN 88143) 

Chief, Civil Division 

Dated: May 1, 2006_________ By: /s/____________________________

JAMES A. CODA (SBN 1012669 (WI)) 

Assistant United States Attorney 

Environment & Natural Resources Unit 

450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055 

San Francisco, California 94102 

Telephone No: (415) 436-6967 

Facsimile No: (415) 436-6748 

E-mail: james.coda@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Federal Defendants 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: 

Dated: __________________ ______________________________ 

 HON. MAXINE M. CHESNEY 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING STAY OF LITIGATION 

Case No. C. 06-01366 MMC 

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