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Parties Involved:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Plaintiff
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Defendant
United States Department of Justice
Defendant

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Stipulation to Vacate Case Management Conference, C 08-2997 (JSW)

GREGORY G. KATSAS

Assistant Attorney General

ARTHUR R. GOLDBERG

Assistant Director, Federal Programs Branch

ADAM D. KIRSCHNER (IL Bar No. 6286601)

Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch

20 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Room 7126

Washington, D.C. 20530

Telephone: (202) 353-9265

Facsimile: (202) 616-8470

Email: Adam.Kirschner@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO

__________________________________________) No. 08-2997 JSW

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, )

) STIPULATION TO VACATE

Plaintiff, ) CASE MANAGEMENT

) CONFERENCE

v. ) 

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL )

INTELLIGENCE and UNITED STATES )

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE )

)

Defendants, )

__________________________________________)

THE PARTIES HEREBY STIPULATE, pursuant to Local Rules 6-1(a) and 7-12, that

the Case Management Conference set for September 26, 2008 shall be vacated. In support of

this stipulation the parties state the following:

1. In this Court’s Initial Scheduling Order, it set a Case Management Conference for

September 26, 2008. See Dkt. # 7.

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2. This Court has found that the above captioned case is related to Electronic

Frontier Foundation v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and United

States Department of Justice, C 08-1023 (JSW) (hereinafter “EFF 1023") . See

Dkt. No. 6. Both cases concern Freedom of Information Act requests plaintiff

made on defendants.

3. This Court has also entered an order approving the briefing schedule proposed by

the parties for EFF 1023 and the above captioned case. See EFF 1023, Dkt. No.

64. 

4. The parties participated in a Case Management Conference in EFF 1023. See

EFF 1023, Dkt. No. 55. As a result of that conference, the Court ordered the

parties to submit a joint consent/declination of reassignment to a Magistrate Judge

and entered a briefing schedule for cross-motions for summary judgment. 

However, in this action, the case has already been reassigned to this Court, see

Docket Entry, July 8, 2008, and this Court has already entered a briefing

schedule, see EFF 1023, Dkt. No. 64.

5. Given that the parties and the Court have already entered a briefing schedule for

the above captioned case that involves a review of defendants’ response to

plaintiff’s FOIA request, the parties respectfully request that this Court vacate the

Case Management Conference set for September 26, 2008. The vacating of the

Conference will promote judicial economy.

Dated: September 16, 2008 Respectfully submitted,

GREGORY G. KATSAS

Assistant Attorney General

ARTHUR R. GOLDBERG

Assistant Director, Federal Programs Branch

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/S/ Adam D. Kirschner 

ADAM D. KIRSCHNER (IL Bar No. 6286601)

Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch

20 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Room 7126

Washington, D.C. 20530

Telephone: (202) 353-9265

Facsimile: (202) 616-8470

E-mail: Adam.Kirschner@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Defendants

David L. Sobel (pro hac vice)

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

1875 Connecticut Ave. NW

Suite 650

Washington, DC 20009

Telephone: (202) 797-9009 x104

Facsimile: (202) 707-9066

/s/ 

Kurt Opsahl, Esq.

Marcia Hofmann, Esq.

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

454 Shotwell Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

Telephone: (415) 436-9333

Facsimile: (415) 436-9993

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

GENERAL ORDER NO. 45(X) CERTIFICATION

I attest that I have obtained Kurt Opsahl’s concurrence in the filing of this document.

/s/ Adam D. Kirschner

Adam D. Kirschner

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS ORDERED that the Case Management Conference set

for September 26, 2008 is vacated.

DATED: ___________________ _______________________________________

Honorable Jeffrey S. White

United States District Judge

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