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Parties Involved:
Alejandro Mayorkas
Defendant
Janet Napolitano
Defendant
Lemar Santana Nasir
Plaintiff

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Request for ADR Exemption

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JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO, CSBN 44332

United States Attorney

JOANN M. SWANSON, CSBN 88143

Assistant United States Attorney

Chief, Civil Division

ILA C. DEISS, NY SBN 3052909

Assistant United States Attorney

450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055

San Francisco, California 94102

Telephone: (415) 436-7124

Fax: (415) 436-7169

Email: ila.deiss@usdoj.gov

TONY WEST

Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division

DAVID J. KLINE

Director

JOSHUA E.T. BRAUNSTEIN

Assistant Director

LANA VAHAB (DC 976203)

Trial Attorney

Office of Immigration Litigation

Civil Division, Justice Department

P.O. Box 878, Ben Franklin Station

Washington, D.C. 20044

Tel: (202) 532-4067

Fax: (202) 305-7000

Email: lana.vahab@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for the United States

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

LEMAR SANTANA NASIR, )

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Plaintiff, )

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v. )

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JANET NAPOLITANO, Secretary of the )

Department of Homeland Security; )

ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, Director of the )

Department of Homeland Security, United )

States Citizenship and Immigration Services, )

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Defendants. )

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No. C 10-0656 EMC

PARTIES’ JOINT REQUEST TO BE

EXEMPT FROM FORMAL ADR

PROCESS; AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

Each of the undersigned certifies that he or she has read either the handbook entitled “Dispute

Resolution Procedures in the Northern District of California,” or the specified portions of the ADR

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Unit’s Internet site <www.adr.cand.uscourts.gov>, discussed the available dispute resolution

options provided by the court and private entities, and considered whether this case might benefit

from any of them. 

Here, the parties agree that referral to a formal ADR process will not be beneficial because this

action is limited to Plaintiff’s request that this Court issue a declaratory judgment recognizing his

derivative United States citizenship and ordering the issuance of a certificate of citizenship. Given

the substance of the action and the lack of any potential middle ground, ADR will only serve to

multiply the proceedings and unnecessarily tax court resources. 

Accordingly, pursuant to ADR L.R. 3-3(c), the parties request the case be removed from the

ADR Multi-Option Program and that they be excused from participating in the ADR phone

conference and any further formal ADR process. If any party subsequently determines that

submission to the formal ADR process would be beneficial to the efficient resolution of this

matter, the parties agree to submit to the Court’s ADR program at that time.

Dated: May 5, 2010 Respectfully submitted,

JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO

United States Attorney

 /s/ 

ILA C. DEISS

Assistant United States Attorney

LANA VAHAB

Trial Attorney

Attorneys for Defendants

Dated: May ___, 2010 ____________________________

JASON H. LEE

Attorney for Plaintiff

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ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation and to ADR L. R. 3-3(c), the parties are hereby removed from the ADR

Multi-Option Program and are excused from participating in the ADR phone conference and any

further formal ADR process. Should any party subsequently determine that submission to the

formal ADR process would be beneficial to the efficient resolution of this matter, that party may

request placement in one of the Court’s ADR programs at that time. 

SO ORDERED.

Dated: ___________________________

EDWARD M. CHEN

United States Magistrate Judge

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