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Nature of Suit Code: 560
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Civil Detainee - Conditions of Confinement
Cause of Action: 08:1252(a)(2) Injunction for Deportation

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JOINT STIPULATION REGARDING SUBSTITUTION 

OF DEFENDANTS’ EXPERT WITNESS 

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BENJAMIN C. MIZER 

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General 

WILLIAM C. PEACHEY 

Director, District Court Section 

ELIZABETH J. STEVENS 

Assistant Director, District Court Section 

BRIAN C. WARD 

KATHERINE J. SHINNERS 

JENNIFER A. BOWEN 

LAUREN C. BINGHAM 

Trial Attorneys, Office of Immigration Litigation 

U.S. Department of Justice – Civil Division 

P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station 

Washington, D.C. 20044 

Telephone: (202) 616-9121 

Facsimile: (202) 305-7000 

Email: Brian.C.Ward@usdoj.gov 

Attorneys for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

AUDLEY BARRINGTON LYON, JR., et. al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND 

CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, et. al., 

Defendants. 

Case No.: 13-cv-05878 EMC 

JOINT STIPULATION REGARDING 

SUBSTITUTION OF DEFENDANTS’ 

EXPERT WITNESS; [PROPOSED] 

ORDER 

CLASS ACTION 

The Parties to this action hereby agree to the following and seek an order permitting 

Defendants to substitute their expert witness and allow Plaintiffs to seek permissible discovery 

from the substitute expert. As good cause for this request, the Parties state the following: 

The deadline to complete expert discovery was January 11, 2016. See Dkt. No. 140. The 

parties had arranged for Plaintiffs to depose Defendants’ expert witness Michael Hackett on 

January 11, 2016. The week before the scheduled deposition, Mr. Hackett informed Defendants 

that he was dealing with a family medical crisis. Several days before the deposition, Mr. Hackett 

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informed Defendants that he had just learned that the medical issue was serious enough that he 

had to withdraw from the case. Defendants have confirmed with Mr. Hackett that he continues 

to be unavailable. Because Mr. Hackett was forced to withdraw based on a recently-discovered 

and very serious medical condition of an immediate family member for whom he continues to be 

the primary caretaker, good cause exists to extend expert discovery and allow Defendants to 

substitute experts. 

Defendants immediately proposed to Plaintiffs that the Parties jointly move to allow 

Defendants to designate a substitute expert, and seek to extend both expert discovery and the 

briefing schedule for the Parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment so that Plaintiffs would 

have sufficient time to depose the substitute expert before responding to Defendants’ CrossMotion for Summary Judgment. Plaintiffs, however, did not want to disturb the briefing 

schedule and instead proposed that, if this case was not resolved at the summary judgment stage 

and Mr. Hackett remained unavailable, Plaintiffs would agree at that time that Defendants could 

proffer a substitute expert for trial as long as the substitute expert’s opinions did not expand upon 

or differ from Mr. Hackett’s opinions, did not rely on facts or materials that Mr. Hackett did not 

review, and that Plaintiffs were given an adequate opportunity to conduct expert discovery. 

The trial in this case is scheduled to begin on May 23, 2016. See Dkt. No. 96. To 

provide Plaintiffs with ample opportunity to conduct expert discovery, the Parties propose that 

(1) Defendants be permitted to substitute Mr. Richard Bryce for Mr. Michael Hackett as rebuttal 

expert in this case, (2) expert discovery be reopened solely for the purpose of allowing Plaintiffs 

to serve document requests on and depose Defendants’ substitute expert on or before April 22, 

2016, and (3) the motion in limine deadline for any challenge Plaintiffs may have to Defendants’ 

proposed substitute expert be extended to May 5, 2016. 

This reopening of expert discovery until April 22, 2016, is limited to Defendants’ 

substitute expert witness and will not affect any of the other current deadlines in this case. 

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will be discussed at the April 19, 2016 

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Dated: March 15, 2016 OFFICE OF IMMIGRATION LITIGATION, 

CIVIL DIVISION 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

BENJAMIN C. MIZER 

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General 

WILLIAM C. PEACHEY 

Director, District Court Section 

ELIZABETH J. STEVENS 

Assistant Director, District Court Section 

By: /s/ Brian C. Ward 

BRIAN C. WARD 

KATHERINE J. SHINNERS 

JENNIFER A. BOWEN 

LAUREN C. BINGHAM 

Trial Attorneys, District Court Section 

P.O Box 868, Ben Franklin Station 

Washington, D.C. 20044 

Telephone: (202) 616-9121 

Email: Brian.C.Ward@usdoj.gov 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Dated: March 15, 2016 By: /s/ Julia Harumi Mass 

JULIA HARUMI MASS (SBN 189649) 

ANGÉLICA SALCEDA (SBN 296152) 

MICHAEL T. RISHER (SBN 191627) 

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 

FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 

39 Drumm Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 621-2493 

Facsimile: (415) 255-8437 

Email: jmass@aclunc.org 

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

ROBERT P. VARIAN (SBN 107459) 

CHARLES J. HA (pro hac vice) 

DAVID KEENAN (pro hac vice) 

JUDY KWAN (SBN 273930) 

ALEXIS YEE-GARCIA (SBN 277204) 

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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 

NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT 

CARL TAKEI (SBN 256229) 

915 15th Street N.W., 7th Floor 

Washington, DC 20005 

Telephone: (202) 393-4930 

Facsimile: (202) 393-4931 

Email: ctakei@aclu.org 

MARC VAN DER HOUT (SBN 80778) 

MEGAN SALLOMI (SBN 300580) 

 180 Sutter Street 

 San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: (415) 981-3000 

Facsimile: (415) 981-3003 

Email: msal@vblaw.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

I, Brian C. Ward, am the ECF user whose user ID and password are being used to file this 

Stipulation. In accordance with Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest that the other signatories 

listed here have concurred in the filing of this document. 

Dated: March 15, 2016 By: /s/ Brian C. Ward 

BRIAN C. WARD 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ________________ ______________________________ 

 HONORABLE EDWARD M. CHEN 

 United States District Judge 

(as revised above) March 16, 2016

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

AS MODIFIED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

No. 3:13-cv-05878-EMC 

I hereby certify that on this 15th day of March 2016, a true and correct copy of the 

foregoing JOINT STIPULATION REGARDING SUBSTITUTION OF DEFENDANTS’ 

EXPERT WITNESS was served with the Clerk of Court by using the CM/ECF system, which 

provided an electronic notice and electronic link of the same to all attorneys of record through 

the Court’s CM/ECF system. 

By: /s/ Brian C. Ward 

BRIAN C. WARD 

Trial Attorney, District Court Section 

Office of Immigration Litigation 

United States Department of Justice 

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