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Nature of Suit Code: 899
Nature of Suit: Other Statutes - Administrative Procedure Act/Review or Appeal of Agency Decision
Cause of Action: 42:4321 Review of Agency Action-Environment

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United States District Court 

Northern District of California 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

San Francisco Division 

HILLS CONSERVATION NETWORK,

Plaintiff, 

v. 

FEDERAL EMERGENCY 

MANAGEMENT AGENCY, et al., 

Defendants. 

Case No. 3:15-cv-01057-LB 

ORDER REGARDING JOINT 

APPENDIX

SPRAWLDEF, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

FEDERAL EMERGENCY 

MANAGEMENT AGENCY, et al., 

Defendants. 

Case No. 3:15-cv-02331-LB 

ORDER REGARDING JOINT 

APPENDIX 

At the case management conferences held on August 27, 2015 in the two above-captioned 

related cases, the court directed the parties to confer about the interplay between ADR and the 

briefing schedule. The court also mentioned strategies that it used previously to address large 

administrative records. For example, in another case involving the federal government, the parties 

submitted a 17-box administrative record. In order to simplify judicial review, the court ordered 

the parties to cooperatively prepare and lodge two copies of a joint appendix of the administrative 

record containing those documents the parties cite directly. The court directed that the appendix 

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consist of one or more three-ring binders containing all of (and only) the relevant documents 

organized sequentially by bates number. Among the other guidelines were these: 

If a party cites just one page of a document, the appendix should contain the entire 

document in most cases. If the entire document is particularly large, the appendix 

should contain the relevant section(s). As a general rule, the parties must print on 

both sides of the page. Knowing the court’s preference, the parties may use their 

discretion to print on only one side of the page where it makes sense, e.g. document 

breaks. The parties must lodge a CD, DVD, or thumb drive containing a single, fulltext searchable .pdf file (or .pdf binder) of the joint appendix. The printed and 

electronic copies of the appendix must be lodged no later than ____. 

The court asks the parties to devise a similar approach here. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: August 28, 2015 

______________________________________ 

LAUREL BEELER 

United States Magistrate Judge 

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