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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2241 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

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JAMES TODD BENNETT 

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Attorney at Law 

P. O. Box 742 

El Cerrito, CA 94530 

Telephone: (510) 232-6559 

California State Bar No. 113009 

Attorney for Petitioner 

RAMON GAMA PUGA 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RAMON GAMA PUGA, 

 Petitioner, 

v. 

MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Secretary, 

Department of Homeland 

Security, CHARLES DeMORE, 

District Director, Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement, NANCY 

ALCANTAR, Field Office 

Director, Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement, and 

ALBERTO GONZALEZ, Attorney 

General of the United States, 

Respondents, 

_____________________________/ 

CASE NO. C05-3607 JF 

ORDER GRANTING UNOPPOSED APPLIC.

FOR MODIFICATION OF BRIEFING 

SCHEDULE AND EXTENSION OF TIME 

TO FILE REPLY 

[Alien Registration Nos. 

 A95 402 525] 

Judge: Hon. Jeremy Fogel 

Ramon Gama Puga, petitioner herein, hereby respectfully moves 

the United States District Court for an order modifying the Order 

Setting Briefing Schedule on Petitioner’s Motion for Stay of 

Removal filed on or about September 8, 2005 and for an extension of 

time to file the petitioner’s reply to respondent’s Opposition to 

the Petitioner’s Motion for a Stay of Removal, filed on or about 

September 20, 2005, from the present due date of Friday, September 

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**E-Filed 9/27/05**
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23, 2005 for two additional business days to Tuesday, September 27, 

2005. 

One prior briefing modification or extension has been 

requested in this action for one additional business day, which is 

currently pending. 

Counsel for petitioner has conferred with counsel of record 

for respondents, Edward Olsen, Assistant United States Attorney, 

United States Attorney’s Office, by telephone on Monday, September 

26, 2005, when the necessity of this application became apparent. 

Mr. Olsen stated that he does not oppose the present application. 

The reason for this application is as follows: 

1. Counsel for petitioner is a sole practitioner without 

full time staff, is computer illiterate and relies on independent 

contractors to input documents and e-file them when necessary. The 

present action is subject to an e-filing order. 

2. Counsel has retained John David Tong, an independent 

contract computer operator in the present action for preparation 

and filing of documents. 

3. Mr. Tong was in Los Angeles, California, working on a 

project for another client on September 23, 2005. On or about the 

late morning of Friday, September 23, 2005, Mr. Tong advised 

counsel that the demands of his ongoing Los Angeles project would 

preclude the inputting and completion of the opposition in this 

matter by close of business. He indicated that he would not be 

available to do so until Monday, September 26, 2005, at which time 

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he would be in his office in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

4. On or about September 26, 2005, counsel for petitioner 

had to prepare and arrange for filing a notice of appeal with a 

stay of removal before the Board of Immigration Appeals, Executive 

Office for Immigration Review, United States Department of Justice, 

in Matter of Ponce Alcaraz, Case No. A47 432 032, in Falls Church, 

Virginia on short notice. Due to the necessity of East coast 

filing in the administrative matter, counsel has been unable to 

complete the reply in the present matter by 5:00 o’clock p.m. on 

September 26, 2005. 

5. As indicated, counsel for respondents does not oppose 

this application. 

This application is based on this written notice, all of the 

papers and pleadings on file herein and other such oral and 

documentary evidence as the United States District Judge may 

consider. 

Wherefore, it is respectfully requested that the modification 

and extension of time requested herein be granted. 

Dated: September 26, 2005 /s/ 

JAMES TODD BENNETT 

Attorney for the Respondent 

RAMON GAMA PUGA 

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PROPOSED ORDER 

 Upon reviewing the petitioners’ unopposed ex parte application 

for modification of order setting briefing schedule on motion for 

stay and extension of time to file the reply and good cause having 

been shown: 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the application be granted and 

petitioner shall file his reply on Tuesday, September 27, 2005. 

 /s/JF 

 Honorable Jeremy Fogel 

 United States District Judge 

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DATED: 9/27/05
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PROOF OF SERVICE 

I, JAMES TODD BENNETT, hereby declare that I am over the 

age of eighteen, not a party to the within action and am a citizen 

of the United States of America. My business address is P.O. Box 

742, El Cerrito, CA 94530. 

On September 26, 2005, I served the within: 

UNOPPOSED EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR MODIFICATION OF BRIEFING 

SCHEDULE AND EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE REPLY; PROPOSED ORDER

ON 

Edward Olsen, Attorney 

U.S. Attorneys Office 

450 Golden Gate Avenue, 10th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94102 

by personally delivering true and correct copies thereof to the 

above addresses. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state 

of California that the foregoing declaration is true and correct. 

Executed on September 26, 2005 at San Francisco, California. 

 /s/ 

JAMES TODD BENNETT 

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