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Nature of Suit Code: 864
Nature of Suit: Social Security - SSID Title XVI
Cause of Action: 42:405 Review of HHS Decision (SSID)

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McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

DONNA M. MONTANO

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney

333 Market Street, Suite 1500

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8985

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

Attorneys for Defendant 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DAVID TAYLOR, ) 1:06cv1663 DLB

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Plaintiff, ) STIPULATION AND

 ) ORDER TO EXTEND TIME 

v. ) 

) ORDER DISCHARGING ORDER

Michael Astrue, ) TO SHOW CAUSE

Commissioner of Social ) (Document 18)

Security, )

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Defendant. )

______________________________)

I Donna Montano, am the Special Assistant United States

Attorney newly assigned to this case as agency counsel for Michael

J. Astrue. This case was re-assigned to me two days ago because

prior agency counsel, Sarah Ryan, is on extended medical leave. I

am filing this stipulation on behalf of the undersigned parties. 

Plaintiff, David Taylor, alleges a mental disorder and is proceeding

pro se, with the assistance of his mother, Dina Taylor. 

This Court issued an OSC on January 10, 2008, because Plaintiff

has not filed his brief in this case. Plaintiff sent his

Confidential Letter to Defendant’s then attorney, Sarah Ryan, on

October 19, 2007. On November 14, 2007, Sarah Ryan filed a

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stipulation and proposed order requesting an extension to respond to

the Confidential Letter, and to extend the remaining scheduling

dates; the Court approved the stipulation on November 15, 2007. 

The Court issued the OSC because Plaintiff did not file his

brief withing 30 days from receiving the Defendant’s response to his

Confidential Letter brief (i.e., by December 24, 2008). However,

because Assistant Regional Counsel Sarah Ryan has been out of the

office on medical leave, it is unclear whether any response to

Plaintiff’s Confidential Letter was ever completed to trigger

Plaintiff’s deadline of December 24, 2008. Plaintiff, through his

mother, represents that he never received a response to his

Confidential Letter. There is no response to the Confidential

Letter in the file.

Thus, in order to prevent an unjust forfeiture of this case by

Plaintiff (who is proceeding pro se and asserts he did not receive a

response to his Confidential Letter), the parties hereby request

that the OSC be discharged, and that the following revised

scheduling order be approved: 

1. Today, on January 25, 2008, Defendant, through the

undersigned Special Assistant United States Attorney, Donna M.

Montano, shall respond to Plaintiff’s Confidential Letter. 

2. Plaintiff will file his pro se brief manually, on or before

February 29, 2008.

3. Defendant will respond to Plaintiff’s Brief on March 31,

2008. All other dates in the Courts Scheduling Order are extended

accordingly.

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The parties request that the OSC be discharged, and that the

scheduling order be revised to allow Plaintiff additional time to

file his pro se brief. 

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ David Taylor

Dated:1/25/08 __________________________

David Taylor, Pro se

(Plaintiff, Pro Se, through Dina Taylor)

Dated:1/25/08 McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

/s/ Donna Montano

_________________________

 Donna M. Montano

 Special Assistant U.S. Attorney

 Attorneys for Defendant

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: January 28, 2008 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

9b0hie UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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