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Parties Involved:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Plaintiff
United States Department of Justice
Defendant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER 

FOUNDATION,

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 

JUSTICE,

Defendant.

Case No.16-cv-02041-HSG 

ORDER DENYING CROSS-MOTIONS 

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Re: Dkt. Nos. 29, 32

On September 22, 2016, Defendant U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion for partial 

summary judgment. Dkt. No. 29. On October 13, 2016, Plaintiff Electronic Frontier Foundation 

filed a cross-motion for partial summary judgment. Dkt. No. 32. Before briefing was completed, 

the parties reached at least a partial agreement regarding Plaintiff’s Freedom of Information Act 

(“FOIA”) request. At their request, the Court stayed further briefing and vacated the hearing on 

the motions. See Dkt. No. 40. 

Since that time, the parties have worked cooperatively to process Plaintiff’s FOIA request. 

In their most recent status report, the parties indicated that the final batch of documents would be 

produced by December 14, 2017. See Dkt. No. 53 at 2. Because the parties acknowledge that the 

scope of their ongoing dispute will be unknown until that time, the Court finds that the parties’ 

pending motions for summary judgment are moot. The Court accordingly DENIES the motions

without any prejudice to the parties filing revised cross-motions targeted only to the remaining 

issues actually in dispute, if that ends up being necessary.

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The Court further DIRECTS the parties to submit a joint status report by January 8, 2018, 

that outlines any remaining issues in the case and provides a stipulated briefing schedule and 

proposed order, if further motions practice is necessary.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Judge

9/29/2017

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