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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:4321 Review of Agency Action-Environment

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SUE ELLEN WOOLDRIDGE

Assistant Attorney General

PAUL D. BARKER, JR.

Trial Attorney

U.S. Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

P.O. Box 663

Washington, D.C. 20044

Telephone: (202) 305-0492

MCGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

EDMUND F. BRENNAN

Assistant U.S. Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2766

Attorneys for Federal Defendants

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CENTER FOR SIERRA NEVADA CONSERVATION, ) CIV-S-02-0325 LKK/JFM

ET AL., )

) 

 Plaintiffs, ) 

) FEDERAL DEFENDANTS’ 

 v. ) 

) AND CROSS CLAIMANTS’ 

)

JOHN BERRY, Eldorado National Forest Supervisor, ) STIPULATED AGREEMENT 

ET AL. ) 

) AND] ORDER AS 

) 

Federal Defendants, ) TO ATTORNEYS’ FEES, 

) 

FRIENDS OF THE RUBICON, et al. ) COSTS, AND EXPENSES

)

Intervenor Defendants and Cross Claimants. ) Hon. Lawrence K. Karlton

________________________________________________)

The Federal Defendants and the Intervenor Defendants/Cross Claimants (“Cross

Claimants”) do hereby stipulate and agree as follows:

1. Federal Defendants will pay Cross Claimants twenty-thousand dollars ($20,000) in

full settlement of Cross Claimants’ claim for attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses incurred in the

above captioned matter through and including the date this Stipulation is approved by the Court. 

Payment shall be made within sixty (60) days of the date this Stipulation is approved by the

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Court. Upon receipt of payment, Cross Claimants shall have no further recourse against the

Federal Defendants, or any of them, for any additional payment of attorneys’ fees, costs or other

expenses incurred in the above-referenced action through the date this Stipulation is approved by

the Court. 

2. This Stipulation is the result of compromise and settlement, is based on and limited

solely to the facts involved in this case, and shall not be construed as an admission of liability by

Federal Defendants, nor shall the settlement be cited in any other litigation except as necessary to

enforce the terms of this Stipulation. Federal Defendants do not waive any defenses they may

have concerning the claims settled under this Agreement. Nothing in this Stipulation shall be

interpreted as, or shall constitute, a commitment or requirement that Federal Defendants obligate

or pay funds, or take any other action in contravention of the Anti-Deficiency Act, 31 U.S.C. §

1341, or any other applicable appropriations law.

3. Nothing in this Stipulation shall be construed as an admission that the position of the

Federal Defendants in this litigation was not substantially justified.

4. This Stipulation represents the entirety of the commitments between the Cross

Claimants and the Federal Defendants with regard to settlement. The terms of this agreement

shall become effective upon approval by the Court of this Stipulation.

5. The undersigned representatives of Cross Claimants and Federal Defendants hereby

certify that they are fully authorized by the parties they represent to enter into and execute this

Stipulation, and to agree to the Court’s entry of the terms and conditions of this Stipulation, and

that in such capacity they do hereby agree to the terms hereof.

Respectfully submitted,

DATED: December 5, 2005 SUE ELLEN WOOLDRIDGE

Assistant Attorney General

_/s/ Paul D. Barker, Jr._____________

PAUL D. BARKER, JR.

Trial Attorney

U.S. Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

P.O. Box 663

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Washington, D.C. 20044

(202) 305-0492

MCGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

EDMUND F. BRENNAN

Assistant U.S. Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 554-2766

Attorneys for Federal Defendants

DATED: December 5, 2005 ___/s/ Paul A. Turcke_______________

Paul A. Turcke

Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke, Chartered

225 North 9th Street, Suite 420

Boise, Idaho 83702

(208) 331-1800

Attorney for Intervenor Defendants/Cross Claimants

APPROVED AND SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 13, 2005.

/s/Lawrence K. Karlton 

LAWRENCE K. KARLTON

SENIOR JUDGE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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