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Parties Involved:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Plaintiff
National Security Agency
Defendant
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Defendant

Document Text:

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED ORDER] TO EXTEND BY FOUR BUSINESS DAYS DEFENDANTS’

DEADLINE TO FILE THEIR REPLY IN SUPPORT OF THEIR SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION AND 

THEIR OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Case No.: 14-cv-03010-RS 

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BENJAMIN C. MIZER 

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General 

MELINDA HAAG 

United States Attorney 

ELIZABETH J. SHAPIRO 

Deputy Branch Director 

RODNEY PATTON 

Senior Counsel 

JULIA BERMAN 

Trial Attorney 

United States Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 

20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, DC 20001 

Tel: (202) 305-7919 

Fax: (202) 616-8470 

Email: rodney.patton@usdoj.gov 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, 

Plaintiff, 

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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, OFFICE 

OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL 

INTELLIGENCE,

Defendants.

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 Case No.: 14-cv-03010-RS 

 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED 

ORDER] TO EXTEND BY FOUR 

BUSINESS DAYS DEFENDANTS’ 

DEADLINE TO FILE THEIR REPLY 

IN SUPPORT OF THEIR SUMMARY 

 JUDGMENT MOTION AND THEIR 

OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S 

CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY 

JUDGMENT

Hon. Richard Seeborg

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED ORDER] TO EXTEND BY FOUR BUSINESS DAYS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINE TO FILE THEIR REPLY IN SUPPORT OF THEIR SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION AND 

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 Pursuant to Rule 6(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local Civil Rule 6-2, 

Defendants request and the parties, by and through undersigned counsel, have conferred and 

hereby stipulate to and respectfully request that (1) the Court extend the deadline by four business 

days to January 14 for Defendants to file their combined opposition to plaintiff’s cross-motion for 

summary judgment and their reply in support of their motion for summary judgment; (2) the Court 

correspondingly extend by four business days to January 28 the deadline for Plaintiff’s reply in 

support of its cross-motion for summary judgment; and (3) that the Court retain the February 18, 

2016 hearing on these motions as currently calendared. 

 Defendants provide the following bases in support of their request: 

1. On September 25, 2015, the parties submitted a stipulated request to set a briefing 

schedule for filing cross-motions for summary judgment. See ECF No. 30.

2. Thereafter, the Court adopted the parties’ proposed schedule and set the following 

dates for briefing:

a. On or before October 30, 2015, defendants will file their motion for 

summary judgment. 

b. On or before December 4, 2015, plaintiff will file its combined cross-motion 

for summary judgment and opposition to defendants’ motion. 

c. On or before January 8, 2016, defendants will file their combined opposition 

to plaintiff’s motion and reply in support of their motion. 

d. On or before January 22, 2016, plaintiff will file its reply in support of its 

motion.

See ECF No. 31. 

3. Pursuant to this briefing schedule, Defendants filed their summary judgment motion 

on October 30, and Plaintiff filed its cross-motion for summary judgment and opposition to 

Defendants’ motion on December 4, 2015. See ECF Nos. 32, 34.

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED ORDER] TO EXTEND BY FOUR BUSINESS DAYS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINE TO FILE THEIR REPLY IN SUPPORT OF THEIR SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION AND 

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4. Defendants need a four business-day extension of their current deadline from 

January 8 to January 14 to complete their combined opposition to plaintiff’s motion and reply in 

support of their motion. Specifically, Defendants need this additional time to allow the equity 

holders in the document at issue to consider the extent to which redactions in the document may be 

lifted. That process was hampered by the unavailability of various officials during the recent 

holiday period and made more difficult by the undersigned counsel’s work on several other briefs 

in other cases in December and in early January.

5. Defendants also seek a concomitant four business-day extension for Plaintiff’s 

current deadline for its reply in support of its motion for summary judgment from January 22 to 

January 28.

6. Both parties request that the hearing date for these cross-motions remain on 

February 18, 2016. 

DATED: January 6, 2015 Respectfully submitted, 

BENJAMIN C. MIZER

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General 

MELINDA HAAG 

United States Attorney 

ELIZABETH J. SHAPIRO 

Deputy Branch Director 

/s/ Rodney Patton

RODNEY PATTON 

JULIA A. BERMAN 

United States Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 

20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20001 

Telephone: (202) 305-7919 

Facsimile: (202) 616-8470 

Attorneys for Defendant

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED ORDER] TO EXTEND BY FOUR BUSINESS DAYS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINE TO FILE THEIR REPLY IN SUPPORT OF THEIR SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION AND 

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/s/ Andrew Crocker 

Andrew Crocker 

Mark Rumold 

Nathan Cardozo 

Jennifer Lynch 

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

815 Eddy St.

San Francisco, CA 94109 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 Electronic Frontier Foundation 

ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 5-1(i)(3) 

 I, Rodney Patton, hereby attest that I obtained the concurrence of Andrew Crocker, counsel 

for the Plaintiff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, in the filing of this document. 

/s/ Rodney Patton 

 RODNEY PATTON 

 Senior Counsel 

United States Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 

20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20001 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED ORDER] TO EXTEND BY FOUR BUSINESS DAYS DEFENDANTS’ DEADLINE TO FILE THEIR REPLY IN SUPPORT OF THEIR SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION AND 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, it is hereby ORDERED that 

1. The current deadline of January 8 for Defendants to file their combined opposition to 

Plaintiff’s motion and reply in support of their motion is hereby extended by four 

business days and is now due on January 14, 2016. 

2. The current deadline of January 22 for Plaintiff to file its reply in support of its motion 

for summary judgment is hereby extended by four business days to January 28, 2016.

3. The current hearing date for these cross-motions remains as currently scheduled on 

February 18, 2016. 

AND IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ___________________ _______________________________ 

 HON. RICHARD SEEBORG 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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