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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 33:1365 Environmental Matters

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STIPULATION FOR BRIEFING SCHEDULE 

ON ATTORNEYS FEE MOTION AND 

 [PROPOSED] ORDER 1 Case No. 3:13-cv-2857-JSW-KAW 

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Christopher Sproul (State Bar No. 126398) 

Jodene Isaacs (State Bar No. 226895) 

ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES 

5135 Anza Street 

San Francisco, California 94121 

Telephone: (415) 533-3376, (510) 847-3467 

Facsimile: (415) 358-5695 

Email: csproul@enviroadvocates.com 

Email: jisaacs@enviroadvocates.com 

Michael A. Costa (Bar No. 219416) 

3848 Sacramento St. #2 

San Francisco, CA 94118 

Telephone: (415) 342-0042 

Email: mike@ocefoundation.org 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OUR CHILDREN’S EARTH FOUNDATION and 

ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY, et al., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. 3:13-cv-2857-JSW-KAW 

STIPULATION FOR BRIEFING 

SCHEDULE ON ATTORNEYS FEE 

MOTION; 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

Pursuant to Civil Local Rules 6-2 and 54-5, Plaintiffs Our Children’s Earth Foundation and 

Ecological Rights Foundation (“Plaintiffs”), and Defendants U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

and Gina McCarthy, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“Defendants”) hereby 

stipulate and respectfully request of the Court an order providing a briefing schedule and hearing 

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date for Plaintiffs’ motion for attorneys fees and costs. 

 WHEREAS, on August 25, 2014, the Court entered the parties’ negotiated Consent Decree 

to resolve the substantive claims at issue (other than claims for costs of litigation) in the abovecaptioned case, Dkt. # 55; 

WHEREAS, under the Consent Decree, the Court retained jurisdiction to construe, 

implement, modify, or enforce the terms of the Consent Decree, and for granting any further relief 

as the interests of justice may require, id. at 12; 

WHEREAS, under Paragraph 24 of the Consent Decree the parties attempted to reach 

agreement on attorney fees and costs, id. at 8; 

WHEREAS, the Parties previously requested and the Court granted an order providing 

Plaintiffs until February 28, 2015 to file their motion for attorney fees so they could continue 

settlement discussions; 

WHEREAS, Paragraph 24 of the Consent Decree provides that Defendants may file their 

Opposition at least 45 days after the any motion for attorneys fees is filed; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs filed their motion for attorneys fees and costs on February 26, 2015; 

NOW THEREFORE, the parties respectfully request that the Court enter the attached order 

providing Defendants until April 23, 2015 to file their opposition to Plaintiffs’ motion for attorneys 

fees; providing Plaintiffs until May 6, 2015 to file their reply in support of their motion for attorneys 

fees; and providing that the hearing on this matter be scheduled for May 21, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. 

 Respectfully submitted this 13th day of March, 2015. 

 s/ Jodene Isaacs__ 

CHRISTOPHER A. SPROUL 

JODENE ISAACS 

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Environmental Advocates 

5135 Anza Street 

San Francisco, California 94121 

Telephone: (415) 533-3376 

Facsimile: (415) 358-5695 

Email: csproul@enviroadvocates.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

SAM HIRSCH 

Acting Assistant Attorney General 

U.S. Department of Justice 

Environment & Natural Resources Division 

 s/ John Thomas H. Do (as authorized) 

JOHN THOMAS H. DO, Trial Attorney 

Environmental Defense Section 

P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station 

Washington, D.C. 20044 

(202) 514-2593 (Phone); (202) 514-8865 (Fax) 

john.do@usdoj.gov 

Attorneys for Defendants 

E-FILING ATTESTATION 

 Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5.1(i)(3), I attest that counsel for Defendants has concurred 

in the filing of this document. 

 s/ Jodene L. Isaacs 

JODENE L. ISAACS 

Counsel for Plaintiffs 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

 The above STIPULATION FOR THE BREIFING SCHEDULE ON ATTORNEYS FEE 

MOTION is GRANTED. Defendants shall have until April 23, 2015 to file their opposition to 

Plaintiffs’ motion for attorneys fees and costs; Plaintiffs shall have until May 6, 2015 to file their 

reply in support of their motion, and the Court shall schedule the hearing on May 21, 2015 at 

11:00 a.m. 

Dated:________________ ______________________________ 

 HON. KANDIS A. WESTMORE 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

3/16/15

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