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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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BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

DONNA L. CALVERT 

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

ELIZABETH FIRER

Special Assistant United States Attorney

160 Spear St., Suite 800

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8937

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

Email: Elizabeth.Firer@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

MELODY HOLLAND-JOHNSON,

Plaintiff,

v.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, 

Acting Commissioner of Social 

Security,

Defendant.

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Civil No. 1:14-cv-00913 GSA

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STIPULATION AND ORDER 

(ECF No. 21)

The parties hereby stipulate by counsel, with the Court’s approval as indicated by 

issuance of the attached Order, that Defendant shall have a FIRST extension of time of 30 days, 

up to and including July 8, 2015, in which to respond to Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary 

Judgment. This extension is being sought because the undersigned counsel for the 

Commissioner has experienced a substantial amount of unanticipated additional work between 

the time Plaintiff filed her brief and the current due date. Counsel is one of two Senior Attorneys 

in the Acting Commissioner’s Regional Office responsible for overseeing reviewing negative 

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district court orders for possible further action including post-judgment motions or affirmative 

appeals. The work involves extremely tight deadlines, and post-judgment motions cannot be 

extended. Between the time Plaintiff filed her brief and this date, the undersigned has had to or 

will have to engage in this detailed analysis in eleven district court cases. This is an unusually 

heavy increase in this particular work load and, in addition to counsel’s other duties, has greatly 

reduced the time she had set aside to brief this matter. Counsel thus respectfully requests an 

additional 30 days to draft and file the Commissioner’s brief. 

The parties further stipulate that the Court’s Scheduling Order shall be modified 

accordingly, i.e., Plaintiff shall have 14 days from the Commissioner’s new due date to file her 

brief to file a reply.

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: June 5, 2015 /s/Kelsey M. Brown

(As authorized via email)

KELSEY MACKENZIE BROWN

Attorney for Plaintiff

Dated: June 5, 2014 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

DONNA CALVERT

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

/s/Elizabeth Firer

ELIZABETH FIRER

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

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ORDER

Based on the stipulation between the parties, Defendant may have an extension of time to 

file her opposition brief. Defendant shall file her opposition brief no later than July 8, 2015. 

Plaintiff may file her reply brief no later than July 23, 2015.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 9, 2015 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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