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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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No. M:06-cv-01791-VRW – STIPULATION RE: EXTENDING DEADLINE 

FOR REPLIES FOR MOTION TO STAY [Dkt. 67-69]; AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

PETER D. KEISLER

Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division

CARL J. NICHOLS

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

DOUGLAS N. LETTER

Terrorism Litigation Counsel

JOSEPH H. HUNT

Director, Federal Programs Branch

ANTHONY J. COPPOLINO

Special Litigation Counsel

ANDREW H. TANNENBAUM

ALEXANDER K. HAAS (SBN 220932)

Trial Attorneys

Email: tony.coppolino@usdoj.gov

U.S. Department of Justice

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch

20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Rm. 6102

Washington, D.C. 20001

Phone: (202) 514-4782

Fax: (202) 616-8460

Attorneys for Federal Defendants Sued in their Official Capacities

and the Federal Intervenor-Defendants (United States of America,

National Security Agency, President George W. Bush)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

IN RE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

TELECOMMUNICATIONS RECORDS

LITIGATION 

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This Document Relates To:

ALL CASES

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No. M:06-cv-01791-VRW 

STIPULATION RE: EXTENDING

DEADLINE FOR REPLIES FOR 

MOTION TO STAY [Dkt. 67-69]; AND

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Courtroom: 6, 17th Floor

Judge: Hon. Vaughn R. Walker

Hearing: February 9, 2007 — 2:00 p.m.

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No. M:06-cv-01791-VRW – STIPULATION RE: EXTENDING DEADLINE 

FOR REPLIES FOR MOTION TO STAY [Dkt. 67-69]; AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 1

RECITALS

A. On November 7, 2006, the Government filed a Motion to Stay MDL Proceedings,

Dkt. 67-69 (“Motion to Stay”). (As in the Joint Case Management Statement, Dkt. 61, “the

Government” refers to the federal defendants sued in their official capacities in these actions and

the federal intervenor-defendants (United States of America, National Securities Agency,

President George W. Bush).)

B. With the approval of the Court, the parties entered into a stipulated briefing 

schedule of this motion on December 1, 2006 (Dkt. 82), which was subsequently modified at the

request of Plaintiffs by stipulation (Dkt. 104) on January 5, 2007 (Dkt. 112).

C. The scheduled hearing on the Motion to Stay is set for February 9, 2007, at 2 p.m. 

D. Plaintiffs filed their opposition to the Motion to Stay on January 17, 2007. 

E. Replies in Support of the Motion to Stay are presently due on January 30, 2007. 

F. The United States has requested two additional days to complete its reply due to

the press of other business, which has included the (i) presentation of oral argument before the

Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation on January 25, 2007, regarding cases subject to

conditional transfer orders 3 and 4 in MDL 1791 that may be transferred to this Court, 

(ii) preparation of filings in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in

connection with a hearing on January 31, 2007 in ACLU v. NSA, Nos. 06-2095, 06-2140 (6th

Cir.), and (iii) a response to the Court's Order to Show Cause (Dkt. 76).

G. The revised due date for replies in support of the Motion to Stay would be the

same as that already scheduled for a response to the Order to Show Cause and this stipulated

extension does not seek to alter the date of the February 9, 2007 hearing.

STIPULATION

Plaintiffs, through their Co-Lead Coordinating Counsel, the AT&T Defendants, the

Verizon Defendants, the BellSouth Defendants and the Sprint Nextel Defendants (these groups

of defendants are defined as they are in footnotes 3 through 6 of the Joint Case Management

Statement, Dkt. 61, at 2) (collectively, the “Major Carriers”), through their respective attorneys

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No. M:06-cv-01791-VRW – STIPULATION RE: EXTENDING DEADLINE 

FOR REPLIES FOR MOTION TO STAY [Dkt. 67-69]; AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 2

of record, and the Government, through their attorneys of record, hereby stipulate to the

following schedule and request that the Court make this stipulation an order of the Court:

1. The Government and the Major Carriers shall e-file their replies on the Motion to

Stay no later than 2:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST) on February 1, 2007.

2. The Government and the Major Carriers do not object to Plaintiffs’ e-filing by 

2:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST) on February 7, 2007 of a single sur-reply limited to responding to

arguments, if any, in the replies that are based on the Notice of the Foreign Intelligence

Surveillance Act Orders, which was filed on January 17, 2007.

DATED: January 29, 2007 Respectfully Submitted,

PETER D. KEISLER

Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division

CARL J. NICHOLS

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

DOUGLAS N. LETTER

Terrorism Litigation Counsel

JOSEPH H. HUNT

Director, Federal Programs Branch

ANTHONY J. COPPOLINO

Special Litigation Counsel

ANDREW H. TANNENBAUM

ALEXANDER K. HAAS (SBN 220932)

Trial Attorneys

U.S. Department of Justice

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch

20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20001

Phone: (202) 514-4782 — Fax: (202) 616-8460

Email: tony.coppolino@usdoj.gov

 

By: /s/ Alexander K. Haas 

 Alexander K. Haas

Attorneys for United States of America, National

Security Agency, President George W. Bush

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February 5, 2007

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FOR REPLIES FOR MOTION TO STAY [Dkt. 67-69]; AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 3

DECLARATION PURSUANT TO GENERAL ORDER 45, § X.B

I, ALEXANDER K. HAAS, hereby declare pursuant to General Order 45, § X.B, that I

have obtained the concurrence in the filing of this document from each of the other signatories

listed above and below.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing declaration is true and correct.

Executed on January 29, 2007, in the City of Washington, District of Columbia. 

PETER D. KEISLER

Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division

CARL J. NICHOLS

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

DOUGLAS N. LETTER

Terrorism Litigation Counsel

JOSEPH H. HUNT

Director, Federal Programs Branch

ANTHONY J. COPPOLINO 

Special Litigation Counsel

ANDREW H. TANNENBAUM

ALEXANDER K. HAAS (SBN 220932)

Trial Attorneys

U.S. Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 

20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Rm. 7328

Washington, DC 20001

Telephone: (202) 514-4782 — Fax: (202) 616-8460

Email: tony.coppolino@usdoj.gov

By: /s/ Alexander K. Haas 

 Alexander K. Haas

Attorneys for United States of America, National Security

Agency, President George W. Bush

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

CINDY COHN (145997)

LEE TIEN (148216)

KURT OPSAHL (191303)

KEVIN S. BANKSTON (217026)

CORYNNE MCSHERRY (221504)

JAMES S. TYRE (083117)

454 Shotwell Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

Telephone: 415/436-9333

415/436-9993 (fax) 

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS

HARVEY M. GROSSMAN, Legal Director

180 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 2300

Chicago, Illinois 60601-1287

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By /s/ Cindy Cohn per G.O. 45 

Cindy Cohn

Co-Lead Coordinating Counsel for Plaintiffs

PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP

BRUCE A. ERICSON

DAVID L. ANDERSON

JACOB R. SORENSEN

MARC H. AXELBAUM

50 Fremont Street

Post Office Box 7880

San Francisco, CA 94120-7880

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP

DAVID W. CARPENTER

DAVID L. LAWSON

BRADFORD A. BERENSON

EDWARD R. McNICHOLAS

1501 K Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20005

By /s/ Bruce A. Ericson per G.O. 45 

Bruce A. Ericson

Attorneys for the AT&T Defendants and the Cingular

Defendants

WILMER, CUTLER, PICKERING, HALE & DORR LLP 

JOHN A. ROGOVIN

RANDOLPH D. MOSS

SAMIR C. JAIN

BRIAN BOYNTON

BENJAMIN C. MIZER

1875 Pennsylvania Ave, NW 

Washington, DC 20006 

202-663-6083 

Fax: 202-663-6363

By /s/ John Rogovin per G.O. 45 

John Rogovin

Attorneys for the Verizon Defendants

FARELLA BRAUN & MARTEL

DOUGLAS R. YOUNG

Russ Building, 30th Floor

235 Montgomery Street

San Francisco, CA 94109

(415) 954-4438

ALSTON & BIRD LLP 

MICHAEL P. KENNY

WILLIAM H. JORDAN

1201 W. Peachtree Street

Atlanta, Georgia 30309

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(404) 881-7000

By /s/ William H. Jordan per G.O. 45 

William H. Jordan

Attorneys for the BellSouth Defendants

BRENDAN V. SULLIVAN, JR.

JOHN G. KESTER 

DANIEL D. WILLIAMS 

WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY LLP 

725 Twelfth Street, NW 

Washington, DC 20005 

Telephone: 202-434-5000 

Email: jkester@wc.com; ddwilliams@wc.com 

By /s/ John G. Kester per G.O. 45 

John G. Kester

Attorneys for the Sprint Defendants

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

Pursuant to the foregoing stipulation, and good cause appearing, 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January __, 2007.

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Hon. Vaughn R. Walker

United States District Chief Judge

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

AS MODIFIED

Judge Vaughn R Walker

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