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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 16:1538 Endangered Species Act

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ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES

CHRISTOPHER A. SPROUL #126398

csproul@enviroadvocates.com

JODENE ISAACS #226895

jisaacs@enviroadvocates.com

5135 Anza Street

San Francisco, CA 94121

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

Facsimile: (415) 358-5694

LAWYERS FOR CLEAN WATER, INC.

DREVET HUNT #240487

drev@lawyersforcleanwater.com

1004 O’Reilly Avenue, Suite A

San Francisco, CA 94129

Telephone: (415) 440-6520

Attorneys for Plaintiffs OUR CHILDREN’S EARTH 

FOUNDATION and ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION

PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP

SARAH G. FLANAGAN #70845

sarah.flanagan@pillsburylaw.com 

Four Embarcadero Center, 22nd Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 983-1000

DIANNE L. SWEENEY #187198

dianne@pillsburylaw.com

2550 Hanover Street

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1115

Telephone: (650) 233-4500

Attorneys for Defendant THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OUR CHILDREN’S EARTH

FOUNDATION, a non-profit corporation, 

and ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS 

FOUNDATION, a non-profit corporation

Plaintiffs,

vs.

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR 

UNIVERSITY 

Defendant.

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Civil Case No.: CV 14-1201-VC

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER FOR CONTINUATION OF THE

STAY OF THE LITIGATION

DENIED BY COURT

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Plaintiffs Ecological Rights Foundation and Our Children’s Earth Foundation 

(collectively, “Plaintiffs”) and Defendant The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior

University (“Stanford”) (Plaintiffs and Stanford are referred to collectively as the “Parties” or 

individually as the “Party”), by and through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate as 

follows:

WHEREAS, Magistrate Judge Laporte, who is presiding over a separate Endangered 

Species Act lawsuit involving the same Parties (Civil Case No.: CV 13-0402-EDL), directed 

the Parties to participate in a Settlement Conference with Magistrate Judge Ryu and that 

Settlement Conference took place on January 7, 2016; 

WHEREAS, with the assistance of Magistrate Judge Ryu, the Parties achieved a 

resolution of the lawsuit before Magistrate Judge Laporte and this lawsuit, involving a 

continuation of the stay in this case while Stanford completes the process underway to secure

the required regulatory authorizations for modification of the Jasper Ridge Road Crossing and 

removal of the Lagunita Diversion Dam, at which time Plaintiffs will dismiss the case with 

prejudice;

WHEREAS, the parties now submit this stipulation and proposed order in furtherance 

of their settlement agreement, setting forth a summary of the terms that support continuation of 

the stay of the litigation until issuance of the required regulatory authorizations for

modification of the Jasper Ridge Road Crossing and removal of the Lagunita Diversion Dam; 

and

WHEREAS, by entering into this Stipulation, the Parties specifically acknowledge that 

this Stipulation does not constitute any concessions as to the strength or weakness of any 

Party’s claims or defenses or the sufficiency or necessity of the proposed modification of the 

Jasper Ridge Road Crossing or removal of the Lagunita Diversion Dam.

NOW THEREFORE, the Parties stipulate as follows:

1. Stanford submitted the applications for the required regulatory authorizations 

for the planned modifications to the Jasper Ridge Low Flow Crossing on December 18, 2015, 

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and shall submit the applications for the required regulatory authorizations for the planned 

removal of the Lagunita Diversion Dam before September 2016. 

2. During the permitting process, Stanford shall provide Plaintiffs with copies of 

the applications referenced in Paragraph 1 and copies of the regulatory agency responses to 

such submittals. 

3. In light of the foregoing and with the Court’s approval, the Parties request that 

this lawsuit should be stayed until the regulatory authorizations referred to in Paragraph 1 

above are secured by Stanford (“Stay”).

4. Once every four months during the Stay, on or before the 15th day of the fourth 

month, the Parties shall provide a joint progress report to the Court that summarizes material 

developments with respect to the proposed modification of the Jasper Ridge Road Crossing 

and the planned removal of the Lagunita Diversion Dam.

5. The Stay shall remain in effect until the regulatory authorizations for the 

proposed modification of the Jasper Ridge Road Crossing and the planned removal of the 

Lagunita Diversion Dam are secured by Stanford, at which time Plaintiffs shall dismiss this 

lawsuit with prejudice.

Dated: January 27, 2016 /s/ Christopher Sproul

Christopher Sproul

Attorney for Plaintiffs Our Children’s Earth 

Foundation and Ecological Rights 

Foundation 

/s/ Sarah G. Flanagan 

Sarah G. Flanagan

Attorneys for Defendant The Board of 

Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior 

University

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[Proposed] Order

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION AND FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, IT IS SO 

ORDERED. This lawsuit is hereby stayed until the regulatory authorizations referred to in 

Paragraph 1 above are secured by Stanford. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Parties 

shall file their first joint progress report on or before May 16, 2016.

Date: _________________ _______________________________

 Hon. Vince Chhabria

 United States District Judge

January 28, 2016

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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DENIED

Judge Vince Chhabria

The parties are required to appear for the scheduled further case management conference on February 9, 

2016 at 1:30 p.m.

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