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Nature of Suit Code: 895
Nature of Suit: Freedom of Information Act of 1974
Cause of Action: 05:552 Freedom of Information Act

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STIPULATION REGARDING CASE MANAGEMENT SCHEDULE

TONY WEST

Assistant Attorney General

JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO

United States Attorney

JOHN TYLER

Assistant Branch Director

KIMBERLY L. HERB

Illinois Bar No. 6296725

Trial Attorney

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch

U.S. Department of Justice

P.O. Box 883

Washington, D.C. 20044

Telephone: (202) 305-8356

Facsimile: (202) 616-8470

Attorneys for DEFENDANTS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION,

Plaintiff,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. CV 09-5640 SI

STIPULATION TO CHANGE TIME 

FOR FILING DISPOSITIVE MOTIONS

Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1) and Civil L.R. 6-2, the parties, by and through 

undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate and respectfully move to change the time for the filing of 

dispositive motions until after the Case Management Conference on July 16, 2010. The requested 

change will not significantly affect the present schedule for the case. In accordance with Civil 

L.R. 6-2(a), this motion is supported by the Declaration of Kimberly L. Herb, counsel for 

Defendants, filed herewith and a proposed order below.

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1. The parties submit, and the Declaration of Ms. Herb establishes, that there is good 

cause for the requested change as follows:

a. During the Initial Case Management Conference on March 12, 2010, the 

parties agreed that the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (“EOUSA”), Bureau 

of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”), the Department of the Treasury

(“Treasury”), and the Department of Justice, Criminal Division (“Criminal Division”) and 

Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) would submit dispositive motions on June 11, 

2010. (Docket 13.) The parties further agreed to discuss a time for dispositive motions 

for the remaining defendants and subcomponents—the Central Intelligence Agency 

(“CIA”), Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), Office of the Director of National 

Intelligence (“ODNI”), Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Department of 

Defense (“DOD”)—during the Further Case Management Conference scheduled for July 

16, 2010.

b. Subsequent to the Initial Case Management Conference, and most recently 

on May 21, 2010, Plaintiff indicated its intention to file new or amended FOIA requests 

with ATF, CIA, DEA, DOD, EOUSA, FBI, and the Criminal Division. EFF needed to 

file new FOIA requests with EOUSA and ATF to correct an earlier failure to exhaust

administrative remedies. EFF also filed new and amended requests1

1 References to the “new and amended requests” or requests “recently filed” refer to 

EFF’s FOIA requests relating to this matter dated as follows: requests with the CIA, FBI, and 

DOD dated May 20, 2010; requests with ATF, DEA, U.S. Air Force, and the Criminal Division 

dated May 21, 2010; and requests with EOUSA dated April 7, 2010 and May 21, 2010. 

to address a good 

faith disagreement between the parties—EFF believed its original requests encompassed a 

request for third-party documents within the agencies’ possession, and Defendants 

believed the original requests only sought agency-authored documents. Many of the 

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Defendants had not previously searched for documents authored by third parties, and these 

Defendants will need additional time to process EFF’s recent requests. EFF notes that its 

submission of new and amended FOIA requests was not a concession that third-party 

documents were outside the scope of its original requests, but was intended as a 

clarification that EFF believed those documents to be included within the scope of those 

requests.

c. The briefing schedule originally entered into by the parties in March 2010 

was based on the FOIA requests as originally filed. If the parties adhere to the present

schedule in the wake of EFF’s service of new and amended FOIA requests, this litigation 

might include more motions and briefs than initially contemplated, as EFF would have to 

file multiple motions to consolidate the new and amended requests and rejoin EOUSA and 

ATF to the present action.

d. In an effort to conserve the Court’s and parties’ resources, the parties have 

agreed solely for the purposes of the present case to the following: 

i. EFF will exhaust in a timely fashion its administrative remedies 

with regard to its recently filed FOIA requests with EOUSA and ATF. If EFF 

seeks to challenge EOUSA’s or ATF’s response after exhaustion, (1) EFF will file

a new action against either or both of those agencies and seek to consolidate it with 

the present action, and (2) Defendants agree that they will not oppose 

consolidation of a new action against EOUSA and ATF emanating from the 

recently filed FOIA requests;

ii. Defendants agree that they will not require EFF to pursue 

administrative remedies, file complaints, or seek consolidation for any other aspect 

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of the new and amended requests, with the exception of the process described in 

paragraph 1(d)(i) concerning EOUSA and ATF;

iii. Subject to the FOIA and agency regulations, EFF has the right to 

file FOIA requests on any issue of its choosing; EFF agrees, however, that it will 

not seek to consolidate any litigation arising from FOIA requests submitted after 

the date of this stipulation with the present action; and

iv. The parties agree that EFF retains the right to challenge 

Defendants’ document processing and production, including the adequacy of the 

searches and any claimed exemptions, in this case. 

2. There have been no previous modifications of time in this case. 

3. The requested enlargement will not significantly affect the present schedule for the 

case. 

a. While this stipulation and proposed order will delay briefing on Plaintiff’s 

FOIA requests as originally filed with ATF, EOUSA, Treasury, DEA, and the Criminal 

Division, this delay is not significant in light of the fact that motions on the original 

requests might not resolve all the issues relating to these Defendants.

b. The requested change of time for filing dispositive motions will not affect 

the present schedule with regard to the CIA, DHS, ODNI, FBI, and DOD, as the parties 

were to discuss a motions schedule with regard to these Defendants during the Further 

Case Management Conference on July 16, 2010.

c. The parties propose to retain the Further Case Management Conference 

currently scheduled with the Court on July 16, 2010. At that time, the parties will update 

the Court on the processing of all of Plaintiff’s FOIA requests to date.

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d. The parties believe that briefing on dispositive motions with regard to all 

the current Defendants and subcomponents can commence in early fall of this year. The 

parties anticipate that EOUSA and ATF, assuming timely exhaustion, will be ready to file 

dispositive motions at the same time as the Defendants currently party to this action. 

* * *

In order to allow Defendants sufficient time to complete the processing of Plaintiff’s 

recently filed FOIA requests, the parties hereby respectfully request that the Court change the 

time for the briefing scheduled for June 11, 2010 and permit the parties to discuss a new briefing 

schedule during the Further Case Management Conference scheduled on July 16, 2010. 

DATED: June 10, 2010 Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Marcia Hofmann 

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

Marcia Hofmann, Esq.

454 Shotwell Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

Telephone: (415) 436-9333

Facsimile: (415) 436-9993

SAMUELSON LAW, TECHNOLOGY 

AND PUBLIC POLICY CLINIC

Jason M. Schultz

U.C. Berkeley School of Law

396 Simon Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-7200

Telephone: (510) 642-0499

Facsimile: (510) 643-4625

Attorneys for Plaintiff

TONY WEST

Assistant Attorney General

JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO

United States Attorney

JOHN TYLER

Assistant Branch Director

/s/ Kimberly L. Herb

Kimberly L. Herb

Trial Attorney

United Stated Department of Justice

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch

20 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20530

Telephone: (202) 305-8356

Facsimile: (202) 616-8470

E-mail: Kimberly.L.Herb@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Defendants 

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ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 

SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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GENERAL ORDER NO. 45(X) CERTIFICATION

I attest that I have obtained Marcia Hoffmann’s concurrence in the filing of this document.

Kimberly L. Herb

/s/ Kimberly L. Herb

:

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