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Nature of Suit Code: 864
Nature of Suit: Social Security - SSID Title XVI
Cause of Action: 42:405 Review of HHS Decision (SSID)

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JONATHAN O. PENA, ESQ. 

CA Bar ID No. 278044

Peña & Bromberg, PLC

2440 Tulare St., Suite 320

Fresno, CA 93721

Telephone: 559-412-5390

Fax: 866-282-6709

info@jonathanpena.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

James Marvin Bridges,

Plaintiff,

vs.

ANDREW SAUL,

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Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

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Case No. 1:19-cv-00564-SKO

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR

SECOND EXTENSION OF TIME

(Doc. 15)

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between the parties through their respective 

counsel of record, with the Court’s approval, that Plaintiff shall have a 30-day extension of time, 

from December 2, 2019 to January 9, 2020, for Plaintiff to serve on defendant with 

PLAINTIFF’S LETTER BRIEF. All other dates in the Court’s Scheduling Order shall be 

extended accordingly.

This is Plaintiff’s second request for an extension of time. Good cause exists for this 

extension request. Plaintiff acknowledges the first extended deadline was on 12/2/2019. At that 

time, Plaintiff’s Counsel was training new staff on the administrative duties of our federal court 

work, including inputting Court deadlines. During the training, the deadline was inputted into 

 

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 Andrew Saul is now the Commissioner of Social Security and is automatically substituted as a 

party pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d). See also section 205(g) of the Social Security Act, 42 

U.S.C. § 405(g)(action survives regardless of any change in the person occupying the office of 

Commissioner of Social Security).

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our system, Prevail. However, Plaintiff’s Counsel was not selected as the recipient of that 

deadline. As the attorney of record, Plaintiff’s Counsel acknowledges that it is his responsibility 

to ensure all proper deadlines are inputted correctly and properly executed. In addition to 

Defendant’s email about the deadline, Plaintiff’s Counsel conducted a thorough audit and 

discovered the internal error. This was a technical and administrative error and Plaintiff’s 

Counsel apologizes to the Court and Defendant. Plaintiff did not intend to delay the case. 

Contemporaneously with this Stipulation, Plaintiff is also filing proof of service of the Plaintiff’s 

Letter Brief. 

Defendant does not oppose the requested extension. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Dated: January 9, 2020 PENA & BROMBERG, ATTORNEYS AT LAW

By: /s/ Jonathan Omar Pena

JONATHAN OMAR PENA

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Dated: January 9, 2020 MCGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

DEBORAH LEE STACHEL

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

By: */s/ Michael Marriott

Michael Marriott

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

(*As authorized by email on 01/09/2020)

ORDER

The Court has reviewed and considered the parties’ stipulation to enlarge the deadline to 

serve Plaintiff’s confidential letter brief out of time. (Doc. 15.) Having shown excusable neglect 

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under Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1)(B), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the request to enlarge the 

deadline to serve Plaintiff’s confidential letter brief is GRANTED, and the deadline is extended

nunc pro tunc to January 9, 2020. All other deadlines set forth in the Scheduling Order (Doc. 7) 

are extended accordingly.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 10, 2020 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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