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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 05:551 Administrative Procedure Act

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M OTION PARTIES’ STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING HEARING AND STATUS CONFERENCE AND EXTENDING TIM E FOR REPLY Page 1

McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

YOSHINORI H. T. HIMEL #66194

Assistant U. S. Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, California 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2760

RONALD J. TENPAS, Acting Assistant Attorney General

JEAN E. WILLIAMS, Section Chief

LAWSON E. FITE, Trial Attorney, Oregon Bar No. 05557

Wildlife & Marine Resources Section

U.S. Department of Justice

Environment & Natural Resources Division

Benjamin Franklin Station, P.O. Box 7369

Washington, D.C. 20044-7369

(202) 305-0217 (telephone)

Attorneys for Federal Defendants

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS

LEAGUE and FRIENDS OF THE RIVER,

Plaintiffs,

v.

NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES

SERVICE, et al.,

Defendants.

2:06-CV-02845-LKK-JFM

MOTION PARTIES’ STIPULATION

AND ORDER CONTINUING

HEARING AND STATUS

CONFERENCE AND EXTENDING

TIME FOR REPLY

Date: June 16, 2008

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Judge: Hon. Lawrence K. Karlton

SYRCL and NMFS, the parties to the pending cross-motions for summary judgment,

stipulate and request, subject to the approval of the Court as provided for hereon, that the

hearing set for June 2, 2008, be continued for two weeks, until June 16, 2008, at 10:00 a.m.,

with NMFS’s response to SYRCL’s opposition papers due June 4, 2008, at 12:00 noon. The

reason for NMFS’s request for extension of its time is that SYRCL's opposition to NMFS’s

motion is more fact-intensive than defense counsel expected, requiring more than the

anticipated amount of communication between counsel and agency employees to ascertain a

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multitude of facts and put them into declaration form. See, e.g., Opposition, Clerk’s Record

number 127-1, at 22-36. The parties are allowing more than the 10 calendar days between

reply and hearing that was previously allowed by stipulated Order filed April 16, 2008, to

allow the Court and SYRCL more time to deal with what is anticipated to be a volume of

factual material in the reply. An additional reason for the continuance, in NMFS’s counsel's

view, is the benefit in judicial efficiency from filing before hearing what reasonably can be

supplied in agency declaration form, thus narrowing the issues to be decided by the Court.

The motion parties suggest that the Court do as it did the previous time, continuing the

status conference. Defense counsel has conferred with codefendants’ counsel and confirmed

that there is no opposition to the status conference date change. This is the first extension of

the reply time and the second continuance of the hearing date, the period of the first

continuance having been 28 days. A suggested form of Order is included in the event this

stipulation is approved.

Dated: May 22, 2008 McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

By: /s/ Y H T Himel 

YOSHINORI H. T. HIMEL

Assistant U.S. Attorney

Dated: May 22, 2008 ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES

By: /s/ Christopher Sproul 

CHRISTOPHER SPROUL

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

ORDER

Upon the stipulated request of the parties to the cross-motions for summary judgment

on the FOIA claims, it is ORDERED as follows:

1.. The hearing set for June 2, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., is CONTINUED until June 16,

2008, at 10:00 a.m..

2. Defendant's time for response to SYRCL’s opposition, set by Order filed April 16,

2008, is EXTENDED from May 23, 2008, until June 4, 2008, at 12:00 noon.

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3. The status conference set for June 2, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., is CONTINUED until

June 16, 2008, at 10:00 a.m.

It is APPROVED and SO ORDERED.

DATED: May 23, 2008

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