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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 8:1446 Petition for Naturalization Hearing

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CECILLIA D. WANG (CSB #187782) 

LUCAS GUTTENTAG (CSB #90208) 

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 

 FOUNDATION 

IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS PROJECT 

39 Drumm Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 343-0775 

Facsimile: (415) 395-0950 

Email: CWang@aclu.org 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs-Petitioners

*Additional counsel listed on following page 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

ALIA AHMADI, VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, 

IGOR OVCHINNIKOV, BILJANA 

PETROVIC, SERGEI SAPOZHNIKOV, 

EIMAN TAKY and YAN WANG, 

Plaintiffs-Petitioners, 

v. 

MICHAEL CHERTOFF, U.S. Secretary of 

Homeland Security; ROBERT S. MUELLER 

III, Director of the Federal Bureau of

Investigation; PETER KEISLER, Acting 

Attorney General of the United States; 

EMILIO T. GONZALEZ, Director, U.S. 

Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of 

Citizenship and Immigration Services; DAVID 

STILL, District Director, U.S. Department of 

Homeland Security, Bureau of Citizenship and 

Immigration Services, San Francisco District,

 Defendants-Respondents. 

Case No. 07-CV-3455-WHA 

STIPULATION OF PARTIAL 

DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF 

PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, 

BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY 

AND YAN WANG 

STIPULATION OF PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF 

PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG CASE NO. 07-CV-3455-WHA

Case 3:07-cv-03455-WHA Document 37 Filed 10/12/07 Page 1 of 8
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Additional counsel:

JULIA HARUMI MASS (CSB #189649) 

ALAN L. SCHLOSSER (CSB #49957) 

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 

 FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 

39 Drumm Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 621-2493 

Facsimile: (415) 255-8437 

SIN YEN LING* 

JOREN LYONS (CSB #203403) 

ASIAN LAW CAUCUS 

939 Market Street, Suite 201 

San Francisco, CA 94103 

Telephone: (415) 896-1701 

Facsimile: (415) 896-1702 

*Application for admission pro hac vice forthcoming 

Of counsel:

TODD GALLINGER (CSB #238666) 

COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS 

 (CAIR) – SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 

3000 Scott Boulevard, Suite 212 

Santa Clara, CA 95054 

Telephone: (408) 986-9874 

Facsimile: (408) 986-9875 

STIPULATION OF PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF 

PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG CASE NO. 07-CV-3455-WHA

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TO THE COURT, ALL PARTIES, AND COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

The parties hereby stipulate and agree as follows: 

1. Defendants are prepared to grant the naturalization applications of Plaintiffs 

Biljana Petrovic and Yan Wang and to administer the oath of citizenship, contingent upon 

Plaintiffs’ continued eligibility for naturalization, no later than October 24, 2007. 

2. Defendants are prepared to grant the naturalization applications of Plaintiffs 

Eiman Taky and Vladimir Mikulicic, contingent on Plaintiffs’ continued eligibility for 

naturalization, no later than November 28, 2007. 

3. Under the Ninth Circuit’s decision in United States v. Hovsepian, 359 F.3d 1144, 

1159-1164 (9th Cir. 2004), during the pendency of litigation under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b), the 

government agency loses authority to act upon the pending naturalization application and the 

district court has exclusive jurisdiction. Thus, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 

(“CIS”) currently may not grant the naturalization applications of Plaintiffs Mikulicic, Petrovic, 

Taky and Wang. 

4. The individual 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b) claims of Plaintiffs Mikulicic, Petrovic, Taky 

and Wang as stated in the First Cause of Action in the First Amended Complaint therefore 

should be dismissed so that they may be naturalized. 

5. In agreeing to this Stipulation, Defendants do not concede that this Court has 

jurisdiction over the Second, Third and Fourth Causes of Action in the First Amended 

Complaint. 

6. This Stipulation does not affect the claims of Plaintiffs Mikulicic, Petrovic, Taky 

and Wang as to the Second, Third and Fourth Causes of Action in the First Amended Complaint. 

7. This Stipulation does not affect the claims of Plaintiffs Ahmadi, Ovchinnikov and 

Sapozhnikov as to any of the causes of action in the First Amended Complaint. 

STIPULATION OF PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF 

PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG CASE NO. 07-CV-3455-WHA

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Dated: October 11, 2007 Respectfully submitted, 

CECILLIA D. WANG 

LUCAS GUTTENTAG 

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 

 FOUNDATION 

IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS PROJECT 

39 Drumm Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

JULIA HARUMI MASS 

ALAN L. SCHLOSSER

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 

 FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN 

 CALIFORNIA 

39 Drumm Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

SIN YEN LING 

JOREN LYONS 

ASIAN LAW CAUCUS 

939 Market Street, Suite 201 

San Francisco, CA 94103 

Telephone: (415) 896-1701 

Facsimile: (415) 896-1702 

TODD GALLINGER 

Of Counsel 

COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC 

 RELATIONS (CAIR) – SAN 

FRANCISCO BAY AREA 

3000 Scott Boulevard, Suite 212 

Santa Clara, CA 95054 

Telephone: (408) 986-9874 

Facsimile: (408) 986-9875 

By: _______/s/________________________ 

CECILLIA D. WANG 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs-Petitioners

STIPULATION OF PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF 

PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG CASE NO. 07-CV-3455-WHA

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Dated: October 11, 2007 SCOTT N. SCHOOLS 

United States Attorney 

JOANN W. SWANSON 

Chief, Civil Division 

EDWARD A. OLSEN 

Assistant United States Attorney 

450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055 

San Francisco, CA 94102 

PETER D. KEISLER 

United States Department of Justice 

Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division

ELIZABETH J. STEVENS 

Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of 

Immigration Litigation 

JEFFREY S. ROBINS 

Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration 

Litigation 

P.O. Box 878, Ben Franklin Station 

Washington, D.C. 20044 

By: _______/s/_________________________

JEFFREY S. ROBINS 

Attorneys for Defendants 

STIPULATION OF PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF 

PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG CASE NO. 07-CV-3455-WHA

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ORDER

Based upon the stipulation of the parties, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the 

individual claims of Plaintiffs Vladimir Mikulicic, Biljana Petrovic, Eiman Taky and Yan 

Wang under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b), as set forth in the First Cause of Action in the First 

Amended Complaint, are hereby DISMISSED pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 

41(a)(1), so that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“CIS”) may grant their 

naturalization applications, contingent on Plaintiffs’ continued eligibility for naturalization 

and, where appropriate, administer the oath of citizenship. 

It is further ORDERED that in the event that CIS does not administer the oath of 

citizenship to Plaintiffs Petrovic and Wang by October 24, 2007, and Mikulicic and Taky by 

November 28, 2007, those Plaintiffs may reinstate their claims before this Court by 

amending the pleadings in this matter. 

This Order does not affect the claims of Plaintiffs Mikulicic, Petrovic, Taky and Wang as 

to the Second, Third and Fourth Causes of Action in the First Amended Complaint. Nor does 

this Order affect the claims of Plaintiffs Ahmadi, Ovchinnikov and Sapozhnikov as to any of the 

causes of action in the First Amended Complaint. 

SO ORDERED. 

Dated: October ___, 2007 

 ___________________________________ 

 HON. WILLIAM H. ALSUP 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge William Alsup

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

 I, Cecillia D. Wang, declare as follows: 

 I hereby certify that today I electronically filed the foregoing STIPULATION OF 

PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, BILJANA 

PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG with the Clerk of the Court using the ECF 

system, which will send notification of such filing to the following email addresses: 

 Alan Lawrence Schlosser Via ECF

 American Civil Liberties Union at aschlosser@aclunc.org

 Foundation of Northern California 

Joren Lyons Via ECF

 Asian Law Caucus at joren@asianlawcaucus.org

Lucas Guttentag Via ECF 

American Civil Liberties Union at lguttentag@aclu.org 

 Immigrants’ Rights Project 

Julia Harumi Mass Via ECF 

American Civil Liberties Union at jmass@aclunc.org 

 Foundation of Northern California 

Edward A. Olsen Via ECF 

United States Attorney’s Office at edward.olsen@usdoj.gov

Elizabeth J. Stevens Via ECF 

United States Department of Justice at elizabeth.stevens@usdoj.gov

Jeffrey S. Robins Via ECF 

United States Department of Justice at jeffrey.robins@usdoj.gov

In addition, I hereby certify that on this 11th day of October 2007, true and correct copies 

of the STIPULATION OF PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR 

MIKULICIC, BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG were served by U.S. 

Mail on the following non-ECF filers: 

Sin Yen Ling Todd Gallinger 

Asian Law Caucus Council on American-Islamic Relations 

939 Market Street, Suite 201 3000 Scott Boulevard, Suite 212 

San Francisco, CA 94103 Santa Clara, CA 95054 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the above 

is true and correct. 

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Dated: October 11, 2007 

San Francisco, California 

 

_________/s/______________ 

 CECILLIA D. WANG 

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