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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 30:181 Environment: Review of Agency Action

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ORDER APPROVING JOINT STIPULATION CASE NO. 1:06-CV-01902-AWI-DLB

TO CONTINUE JOINT SCHEDULING 

REPORT AND SCHEDULING CONFERENCE 

[PROPOSED] 1

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

FRIENDS OF YOSEMITE VALLEY, et al.,)

) Case No. 1:06-CV-01902-AWI-DLB

Plaintiffs, )

 ) ORDER APPROVING JOINT 

v. ) STIPULATION TO CONTINUE

) JOINT SCHEDULING REPORT

DIRK KEMPTHORNE, in his official ) AND SCHEDULING CONFERENCE 

capacity as Secretary of the Interior, et al., )

)

 Defendants. )

____________________________________)

This matter is before the Court on the parties’ joint stipulation to continue the Joint

Scheduling Report and the Scheduling Conference for an additional period of two months with

regard to the plaintiffs’ challenge to the Yosemite Valley Plan. The new dates for filing the joint

report and holding the conference would be June 23 and June 30, 2008, respectively. 

The basis for the request is that the recent opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for

the Ninth Circuit in the related case involving the Merced River Plan, Friends of Yosemite

Valley v. Kempthorne, ___ F.3d ___, 2008 WL 795334 (9 Cir. 2008), is likely to have th

significant impacts on the present litigation. The defendants agree that, during the two-month

continuance, they will not move to modify the terms of the injunction entered by this Court in the

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ORDER APPROVING JOINT STIPULATION CASE NO. 1:06-CV-01902-AWI-DLB

TO CONTINUE JOINT SCHEDULING 

REPORT AND SCHEDULING CONFERENCE 

[PROPOSED] 2

related Merced River Plan litigation on November 3, 2006. Friends of Yosemite Valley v.

Kempthorne, 464 F.Supp.2d 993 (E.D.Cal. 2006). 

The Court, having reviewed the parties’ joint stipulation, finds that good cause exists to

approve the joint stipulation and continue for an additional period of two months the dates for

filing the Joint Scheduling Report and holding the Scheduling Conference. This continuance is

approved with the understanding that the parties will report to the Court no later than June 23,

2008, and indicate whether the case should proceed at that time. Accordingly, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the parties’ joint stipulation is APPROVED. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT the case is continued for two months. The deadline

for the parties to file a Joint Scheduling Conference is postponed until June 23, 2008. The

parties shall notify the Court no later than June 23, 2008, whether the case should move forward

at that time. The Scheduling Conference currently set for Monday, April 28, 2008, is hereby

continued until June 30, 2008, at 9:00 a.m. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: April 18, 2008 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

3b142a UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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