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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 16:1538 Endangered Species Act

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C-02-1580-JSW Joint Status Report

KEVIN V. RYAN, United States Attorney (CA Bar # 118321)

JAMES CODA, Assistant United States Attorney (WI Bar # 1012669)

450 Golden Gate Avenue, P.O. Box 36055

San Francisco, CA 94102

SUE ELLEN WOOLDRIDGE, Assistant Attorney General

United States Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

JEAN E. WILLIAMS, Chief

SETH M. BARSKY, Assistant Chief

JAMES A. MAYSONETT, Trial Attorney (D.C. Bar # 463856)

Wildlife and Marine Resources Section

JOHN W. SITHER, Trial Attorney 

Law and Policy Section

Benjamin Franklin Station, P.O. Box 4390

Washington, D.C. 20044-4390

Telephone: (202) 514-5484

Facsimile: (202) 514-4231

Attorneys for Federal Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL

DIVERSITY, a non-profit corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

STEPHEN L. JOHNSON, Administrator,

Environmental Protection Agency, and

WAYNE NASTRI, Region 9

Administrator, Environmental Protection

Agency,

Defendants,

and,

CROPLIFE AMERICA, AMERICAN

FOREST & PAPER ASSOCIATION,

WESTERN PLANT HEALTH

ASSOCIATION, OREGONIANS FOR

FOOD AND SHELTER, and SYNGENTA

CROP PROTECTION, INC.,

Defendant-Intervenors.

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Case No: C-02-1580-JSW

JOINT STATUS REPORT

Date: April 27, 2006

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C-02-1580-JSW Joint Status Report 2

The parties submit the following joint status report pursuant to the parties’ Joint

Stipulation to Suspend Current Briefing Schedule and the Court’s March 22, 2006 order

entering that stipulation:

1. On December 16, 2005, the Court set a schedule for the briefing and argument

of Plaintiff’s motion for injunctive relief in this matter. On March 22, 2006, the Court

granted the parties’ request to stay that schedule pending the completion of settlement

discussions.

2. While we have not yet reached agreement on settlement, the parties have

conducted two mediation sessions with Magistrate Judge Larson (on March 1, 2006 and again

on April 20, 2006) and have engaged in productive settlement discussions. The parties desire

additional time to continue these discussions.

3. These continued settlement discussions may resolve the issues currently before

the Court and thus obviate the need for the Court to resolve the pending motion.

4. With the Court’s permission, the parties will continue their discussions and

submit a further joint status report (including any proposal by any party to reinstate a briefing

schedule for the pending motion) on May 18, 2006.

5. The parties note that the Court had previously scheduled a hearing on

Plaintiff’s motion for injunctive relief for April 28, 2006 and has not expressly removed that

hearing date from its calendar. The parties respectfully submit that such a hearing is

unnecessary at this time since the parties are continuing their settlement discussions (and

since the motion has not yet been fully briefed).

Dated: April 27, 2006. Respectfully Submitted,

/s/ Brent Plater

 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Jeffrey S. White

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C-02-1580-JSW Joint Status Report 3

Brent Plater (CA Bar No. 209555)

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA OFFICE

1095 Market Street, Suite 511

San Francisco, CA 94103

Telephone: (415) 436-9682

Facsimile: (415) 436-9683

bplater@biologicaldiversity.org

Brendan Cummings (CA Bar # 193952)

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

P.O. Box 549

Joshua Tree, CA 92252

Telephone: (760) 366-2232

Facsimile: (760) 366-2669

bcummings@biologicaldiversity.org

Michael W. Graf (CA Bar # 136172)

Law Offices

227 Behrens Street

El Cerrito, CA 94530

Telephone: (510) 525-7222

Facsimile: (510) 525-1208

mwgraf@aol.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

KEVIN V. RYAN, United States Attorney

(CA Bar # 118321)

JAMES CODA, Assistant United States Attorney

(WI Bar # 1012669)

450 Golden Gate Avenue, P.O. Box 36055

San Francisco, CA 94102

Telephone: (415) 436-6967

Facsimile: (415) 436-7234

SUE ELLEN WOOLDRIDGE, Assistant Attorney General

United States Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

JEAN E. WILLIAMS, Chief

SETH M. BARSKY, Assistant Chief

/s/ James A. Maysonett

 

JAMES A. MAYSONETT, Trial Attorney

(D.C. Bar # 463856)

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C-02-1580-JSW Joint Status Report 4

Wildlife and Marine Resources Section

JOHN W. SITHER, Trial Attorney

Law and Policy Section

Benjamin Franklin Station, P.O. Box 4390

Washington, D.C. 20044-4390

Telephone: (202) 514-5484

Facsimile: (202) 514-4231

Attorneys for Federal Defendants

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP

/s/

 

Louis Leonard III (Ca. Bar No. 226097)

505 Montgomery Street, Suite 1900

San Francisco, California 94111-2562

Telephone: (415) 391-0600

Facsimile: (415) 395-8095

Kenneth W. Weinstein (Bar No. 194548)

Janice M. Schneider (D.C. Bar No. 472037)

Amy L. Stein (D.C. Bar No. 473625)

555 Eleventh Street, N.W., Suite 1000

Washington, D.C. 20004-1304

Telephone: (202) 637-2200

Facsimile: (202) 637-2201

Attorneys for Intervenor Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.

/s/ J. Michael Klise

 

J. Michael Klise (pro hac vice)

Steven P. Quarles (D.C. Bar No. 351668)

CROWELL & MORING LLP

1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20004-2595

(202) 624-2500

Fax: (202) 628-5116

jmklise@crowell.com

Attorneys for Intervenors Western Plant Health Association, et

al. 

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C-02-1580-JSW Joint Status Report

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that, on April 27, 2006, copies of the parties’ Joint Status Report were

submitted to the Court electronically for filing and service on Brent Plater, Brendan R.

Cummings, and Michael W. Graf, counsel for Plaintiff; Peter B. Ackerman and J. Michael

Klise, counsel for amici; and Kenneth W. Weinstein, Janice M. Schneider, Amy L. Stein, and

Louis Golden Leonard, counsel for proposed intervenors Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.

/s/ James A. Maysonett

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JAMES A. MAYSONETT

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