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Nature of Suit Code: 895
Nature of Suit: Freedom of Information Act of 1974
Cause of Action: 05:552 Freedom of Information Act

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BARRY E. HINKLE, SBN 071223

PATRICIA M. GATES, SBN 076498

ROBERTA D. PERKINS, SBN 153074

WEINBERG, ROGER & ROSENFELD

A Professional Corporation

1001 Marina Village Parkway, Suite 200

Alameda, CA 94501-1091

Telephone: 510.337-1001

Facsimile: 510.337.1023

Attorneys for Plaintiff, LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA 

PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGION

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

YOSHINORI H. T. HIMEL #66194

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2760

Facsimile: (916) 554-2900

email: yoshinori.himel@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Defendant, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL 

UNION OF NORTH AMERICA 

PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGION,

 Plaintiff,

 v.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY,

 Defendant.

CASE NO. 2:13-CV-02204-MCE-DAD

STIPULATION AND ORDER LIMITING 

ISSUES TO BE DECIDED

The parties, through their undersigned counsel of record, hereby stipulate, subject to the 

approval of the Court as provided for hereon, as follows:

1. To limit the expenditure of judicial resources, the parties make the withholding, 

under FOIA, in the to-be-amended redacted certified payroll records for CLP Resources, Inc., 

for the weeks ending 12/2/12, 12/9/12, 12/16/12, 12/23/12, 1/6/13, 1/13/13, and 1/20/13, the 

issue to be decided in this action. The parties stipulate and agree that the final judicial ruling on 

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these redactions will apply to all other payroll records produced by defendant in response to the 

FOIA request in suit.

2. Thus, defendant shall have the burden of showing that a FOIA exemption covers 

the redactions in those weeks' records. In this action only, however, defendant shall not have the 

burden to support redactions to any other weeks' records, nor shall it have the burden to show 

that it performed an adequate search for responsive records.

3. At this time, in an effort to limit the issues further, the parties are discussing which 

specific redactions will be presented to the Court.

4. Plaintiff concedes that it is proper under FOIA Exemption 6, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6), 

to withhold the information in column (1) of the payroll records, namely, employee names, 

addresses, and Social Security numbers.

Dated: February 6, 2014

By:

WEINBERG, ROGER & ROSENFELD

A Professional Corporation

/s/ Roberta D. Perkins

ROBERTA D. PERKINS, SBN 153074

(as authorized on 2/6/14)

Dated: February 5, 2014

By:

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

/s/ YOSHINORI H. T. HIMEL #66194

YOSHINORI H. T. HIMEL #66194

Assistant United States Attorney

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 10, 2014

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