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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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MELINDA L. HAAG, CSBN 132612

United States Attorney

DEBORAH L. STACHEL, CSBN 230138

Acting Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

CAROLYN B. CHEN, CSBN 256628

Special Assistant United States Attorney

160 Spear Street, Suite 800

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8956

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

E-Mail: Carolyn.Chen@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PHILLIP MAYS, ) CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:15-CV-02731-MEJ

Plaintiff, )

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v. ) MOTION FOR A SECOND EXTENSION 

) OF TIME FOR DEFENDANT TO FILE 

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting ) STATEMENT OF FACTS AND CROSS-MOTION 

Commissioner of Social Security, ) FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; ORDER THEREON 

Defendant. )

______________________________)

Defendant respectfully requests a second extension of time of 30 days to file her statement

of the administrative record and cross-motion for summary judgment and opposition to Plaintiff’s

motion. The current due date is February 17, 2016. The new due date will be March 18, 2016. 

This is the second continuance sought by Defendant. There is good cause for this request. 

Since Defendant’s previous request for an extension of time, Defendant’s counsel’s continued to

have a heavy workload including a follow-up briefing for a hearing for an Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case in December 2015; additional discovery, including

depositions conducted in December and January, for a second EEOC case; traveling for a Ninth

Circuit appellate oral argument in early February 2016; preparing a ninth circuit brief due in

February 2016; and was recently given an emergency assignment last week for an additional

EEOC matter, that requires a short-turn around response on February 18, 2016, the day after the

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original due date of Defendant’s cross-motion for summary judgment, and which could not be

assigned to another attorney. She also has a continuing full workload of conducting discovery

and briefing for two EEOC cases the rest of February and March.

Despite Defendant’s counsel’s efforts to be diligent and her extending other cases to

facilitate her finishing this case and other pressing deadlines, she still needs more time to prepare

Defendant’s response to Plaintiff’s Statement of the Record, which Defendant does not agree with

and must provide a detailed corresponding statement of fact, which has proven to be more timeconsuming that anticipated – as well as prepare her cross-motion for summary judgment and

opposition to Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment.

Because of the factors described above, defense counsel is requesting additional time up

to March 18, 2016, to fully review the administrative record and prepare her statement of the

administrative record and research the issues presented by Plaintiff’s memorandum in support of

Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment. Defendant apologizes for any inconvenience caused by

the delay in the filing of Defendant’s cross-motion and response to Plaintiff’s motion for

summary judgment. This request is made in good faith with no intention to unduly delay the

proceedings. 

On February 16, 2016, Defendant’s counsel emailed Plaintiff’s counsel Nancy McGee

regarding this request. Ms. McGee stated that she would not agree to a second extension.

Respectfully submitted,

MELINDA L. HAAG

United States Attorney

Dated: February 17, 2016 By s/ Carolyn B. Chen 

CAROLYN B. CHEN

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

ORDER

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PURSUANT TO MOTION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED:________________________ _________________________________

HON. MARIA-ELENA JAMES

UNITED STATE MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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All deadlines are adjusted 

accordingly.

February 24, 2016

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