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Parties Involved:
Sylvia Burwell
Defendant
Consolidated Tribal Health Project, Inc.
Plaintiff
Mary Smith
Defendant
United States of America
Defendant

Document Text:

1 STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

CASE NO. 2:16-cv-01546-JAM-AC 

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PHILLIP A. TALBERT 

Acting United States Attorney 

EDWARD A. OLSEN, CSBN 214150 

Assistant United States Attorney 

501 I Street, Suite 10-100 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Telephone: (916) 554-2821 

Facsimile: (916) 554-2900 

Attorneys for Defendants 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CONSOLIDATED TRIBAL HEALTH 

PROJECT, INC, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SYLVIA 

BURWELL, in her official capacity as 

Secretary, U.S. Department of Health & Human 

Services, MARY SMITH, in her official 

capacity as Director, Indian Health Service, 

 Defendants. 

CASE NO. 2:16-cv-01546-JAM-AC 

STIPULATION TO A 2-MONTH 

STAY OF PROCEEDINGS AND 

ORDER

Plaintiff Consolidated Tribal Health Project, Inc., and Defendants United States of 

America, Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human 

Services, and Mary Smith, Principal Deputy Director of the Indian Health Service, by and 

through their attorneys of record, hereby stipulate, subject to approval by the Court, to a further 

2-month stay of proceedings in light of the fact that the parties have been fruitfully engaged in 

settlement discussions in this matter and have made significant progress towards that settlement, 

but need more time to come to resolution of these claims. 

The parties also jointly ask the Court to relieve the parties of their obligation to file a 

joint status report until after the expiration of the 2-month stay of proceedings. If the parties are 

unable to resolve this matter by January 23, 2017, the defendants will file a responsive pleading 

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to the Complaint no later than January 30, 2017, and the parties will prepare and file a joint 

status report no later than February 6, 2017. The parties have agreed not to exchange Initial 

Disclosures at this time and will address the exchange of Initial Disclosures in their joint status 

report if this matter is not resolved through the parties’ settlement discussions. 

Dated: November 22, 2016 Respectfully submitted, 

PHILLIP A. TALBERT 

Acting United States Attorney 

/s/ Edward A. Olsen 

EDWARD A. OLSEN 

Assistant United States Attorney 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Dated: November 22, 2016 HOBBS, STRAUS, DEAN & WALKER, LLP 

 /s/ Adam P. Bailey 

 ADAM P. BAILEY 

 GEOFFREY D. STROMMER 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 ORDER 

 Pursuant to stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 11/28/2016 /s/ John A. Mendez_______________________ 

 JOHN A. MENDEZ 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

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