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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 DEADLINE FOR PARTIES TO REPORT TO THE 

COURT WHETHER THEY HAVE REACHED AN AGREEMENT ON THE ISSUE OF ATTORNEYS’ FEES 

AND COSTS

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, 

v.

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 DEADLINE 

FOR PARTIES TO REPORT TO THE

 COURT WHETHER THEY HAVE 

REACHED AN AGREEMENT 

ON THE ISSUE OF ATTORNEYS’

FEES AND COSTS 

Hon. Richard Seeborg 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED ORDER] TO EXTEND DEADLINE FOR PARTIES TO REPORT TO THE 

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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 the Court extend the deadline from May 6 to June 

6, 2016 for the parties to report to the Court regarding whether they have reached agreement or 

whether the plaintiff’s claim for costs and attorneys’ fees will be presented to the Court for 

consideration.

 The parties provide the following bases in support of their request: 

1. On March 17, 2016, the Court granted the Government’s motion for summary judgment 

and denied Plaintiff’s cross-motion for summary judgment. See Order Re: Cross 

Motions for Summary Judgment (ECF No. 41) (“Order”); 

2. The Court ordered that the Government submit a proposed final judgment, see Order at 

5, which it did on April 7, 2016. See [Proposed] Final Judgment (ECF No. 43-1); 

3. The Court entered final judgment on April 7, 2016. See Final Judgment (ECF No. 45); 

4. In that Final Judgment, the Court ordered that, by May 6, 2016, the parties must submit 

a report stating “whether the parties have reached agreement or whether the plaintiff’s 

claim” for attorneys’ fees and costs “will be presented to the Court for consideration.” 

Final Judgment at 1; 

5. Since that time the parties have been engaged in good faith discussions regarding 

attorneys’ fees and costs in an effort to resolve this issue without motions practice; 

6. Due to a variety of competing priorities, particularly for the Government, those 

discussions are not yet complete; 

7. The parties request that the deadline for the parties to report to the Court on this issue be 

extended from May 6 to June 6, 2016, to allow for these discussions to be completed. 

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DATED: May 6, 2016 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., Room 7320 

Washington, D.C. 20001 

Telephone: (202) 305-7919 

Facsimile: (202) 616-8470 

Attorneys for Defendants

/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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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, it is hereby ORDERED that 

1. The current deadline of May 6 for the parties to report to the Court about whether they 

have resolved the issue of attorneys’ fees and costs be extended to June 6, 2016. 

2. The parties will report to the Court on or before June 6, 2016, regarding whether the 

parties have reached agreement on this issue or whether the plaintiff’s claim will be 

presented to the Court for consideration. 

AND IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ___________________ _______________________________ 

 HON. RICHARD SEEBORG 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

5/10/16

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