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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Stephanie Arlene Tsouvas
Plaintiff

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BOBBIE J MONTOYA 

Assistant United States Attorney 

DONNA CALVERT 

Acting Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX 

Social Security Administration 

SUSAN L. SMITH 

Special Assistant United States Attorney 

160 Spear Street, Suite 800 

 San Francisco, California 94105 

 Telephone: (415) 977-8926 

 Facsimile: (415) 744-0134 

 Email: Susan.L.Smith@ssa.gov 

Attorneys for Defendant 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

STEPHANIE ARLENE TSOUVAS 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting 

Commissioner of Social Security, 

 Defendant. 

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Case No.: 2:13-CV-00099-AC 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO EXTEND 

BRIEFING SCHEDULE 

 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by the parties, through their undersigned attorneys, that 

Defendant shall have a first extension of time of fourteen (14) days, from December 2, 2013 to 

December 16, 2013, to file her opposition to Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment. This is 

Defendant’s first request for an extension. 

At the end of the day on September 30, 2013, the appropriation that had been funding the 

Department of Justice expired and the appropriations to the Department lapsed. The same was true 

for most Executive agencies, including the Social Security Administration. Effective October 17, 

2013, funds were appropriated for the Department of Justice and the Social Security 

Administration, and attorneys in both office are resuming their usual civil litigation functions. 

Case 2:13-cv-00099-AC Document 23 Filed 12/04/13 Page 1 of 2
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Notwithstanding the return of all attorneys, the Office of the General Counsel for the Social 

Security Administration has a substantial backlog of work as a result of this lapse in 

appropriations. The Office of the General Counsel is working diligently to prioritize and work 

through this backlog as efficiently as possible. As such, the Acting Commissioner requests a 14-

day extension of time for filing the Commissioner’s brief, with all other dates in the Court’s CMO 

to be extended accordingly. 

 Respectfully submitted, 

Date: December 4, 2013 /s/ Ann M. Cerney 

 ANN M. CERNEY 

 *By phone authorization on November 26, 2013 

 

Date: December 4, 2013 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER 

 United States Attorney 

 

 By: /s/Susan L. Smith 

SUSAN L. SMITH 

 Special Assistant U.S. Attorney 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

Of Counsel 

Tina Saladino 

Assistant Regional Counsel 

Social Security Administration 

ORDER 

APPROVED AND SO ORDERED 

DATED: December 3, 2013 

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