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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 05:551 Administrative Procedure Act

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Christopher A. Sproul (Bar No. 126398)

Environmental Advocates 

5135 Anza Street 

San Francisco, California 94121 

Telephone: (415) 533-3376 

Facsimile: (415) 358-5695 

Email: csproul@enviroadvocates.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE, and

FRIENDS OF THE RIVER

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE,

non-profit corporation, and FRIENDS OF THE

RIVER, a non-profit corporation,

Plaintiffs,

v.

NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE,

CARLOS M. GUTIERREZ, as Secretary of

Commerce, RODNEY MCINNIS, as Regional

Administrator of the National Marine Fisheries

Service Southwest Region, UNITED STATES

ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, FRANCIS J.

HARVEY, as Secretary of the Army, COLONEL

MICHAEL J. WALSH, as District Engineer,

Sacramento District and YUBA COUNTY WATER

AGENCY,

Defendants.

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Case No.: 06-cv-02845-LKK-JFM

STIPULATION TO WITHDRAW

PLAINTIFFS’ AMENDED MOTION

FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY

JUDGMENT ON FOIA CLAIMS

Date: June 2, 2008

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Courtroom: 4, 15 Floor th

The Plaintiff South Yuba River Citizens League ("SYRCL") and the defendant National

Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) entered into a stipulation (“the Stipulation”) on April 14, 2008,

which the Court subsequently approved, setting a briefing schedule for: (1) Plaintiffs’ Motion for

Partial Summary Judgment on its FOIA Claims (i.e., Plaintiffs’ Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth Claims)

and (2) a counter-motion by NMFS on Plaintiffs’ FOIA Claims. The Stipulation provided that NMFS

would file its opposition to SYRCL’s Motion and NMFS’s counter motion by April 24, 2008. 

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SYRCL would then file its optional reply and opposition to NMFS’s counter-motion by May 9, 2008. 

NMFS would then file its optional reply by May 23, 2008. Among other things, this briefing schedule

accommodates counsels’ respective plans to be out of the office for parts of April and May, 2008.

Since SYRCL filed its Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on FOIA Claims on March 24,

2008 (Docket Document No. 108), there have been some changes in the facts concerning NMFS’s

response to SYRCL’s two Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") requests that are at issue in

SYRCL’s FOIA claims. On April 17, 2008, NMFS provided SYRCL a response that, in SYRCL's

view, only partially complies with the second FOIA request; accordingly, SYRCL continues to allege

that NMFS has not complied with its FOIA obligations.

On April 22, 2008, SYRCL filed an Amended Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on

FOIA Claims. SYRCL expresses the purpose of its filing as to withdraw the parts of its argument of

FOIA non-compliance that have been superseded by NMFS’s April 17, 2008 FOIA response, and to

adjust its arguments to fit its views of the current facts.

NMFS objects to this filing. NMFS views the filing as requiring Court approval because it is

not authorized by the previously-ordered briefing schedule. NMFS views the filing as coming too

close to its April 24, 2008 deadline to allow it to evaluate the filing and to make a timely response.

Therefore, to allow the briefing schedule to proceed as set forth in the Stipulation, SYRCL

now withdraws its Amended Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. SYRCL shall instead provide its

updated factual discussion and argument, as appropriate, in its optional reply due on May 9, 2008. 

Dated: April 22, 2008

 

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Christopher Sproul

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE, and

FRIENDS OF THE RIVER

Dated: April 22, 2008 MCGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

RONALD J. TENPAS, Assistant Attorney General

JEAN E. WILLIAM, Section Chief

LAWSON E. FITE, Trial Attorney

By: /s/ Y H T Himel 

YOSHINORI H. T. HIMEL

Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

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ORDER

It is APPROVED and SO ORDERED. SYRCL’s Amended Motion for Partial Summary

Judgment filed on April 22, 2008 is withdrawn. The motion as originally filed is the motion before

the court.

DATED: April 23, 2008

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