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

Document Text:

JOINT STATUS REPORT AND PROPOSED BRIEFING 

SCHEDULE AND ORDER 

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MARK RUMOLD (SBN 279060) 

mark@eff.org 

NATHAN D. CARDOZO (SBN 259097) 

nate@eff.org 

AARON MACKEY (SBN 286647) 

amackey@eff.org 

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

815 Eddy Street 

San Francisco, CA 94109 

Telephone: (415) 436-9333 

Facsimile: (415) 436-9993 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 

OF JUSTICE, 

 Defendant. 

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Case No. 16-cv-02041-HSG 

JOINT STATUS REPORT AND 

PROPOSED BRIEFING SCHEDULE 

AND ORDER 

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16-cv-02041-HSG JOINT STATUS REPORT AND PROPOSED BRIEFING 

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 Pursuant to L. R. 7-12, Plaintiff Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) and Defendant 

United States Department of Justice provide the following status report, stipulate to the proposed 

briefing schedule for cross-motions for summary judgment in this case as outlined below, and 

request that the Court order the same. In support, the parties state as follows: 

 The Joint Case Management Statement (JCMS) filed on January 8, 2018 (ECF No. 57) stated 

that Defendant was processing the third and final batch of documents in response to Plaintiff’s 

narrowed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the goal of producing documents, where 

appropriate, by January 30, 2018. Defendant met its processing deadline, producing 13 redacted 

records to Plaintiff and withholding an additional 26 documents in full. 

 The Court’s Dec. 19, 2017 Order (ECF No. 56) stated that once Defendant completed 

processing of that final set of records, the parties should confer and file a joint status report setting 

forth a summary judgment briefing schedule in this case by February 16, 2018. 

 The parties have conferred and narrowed the issues that remain in dispute, but they are 

unable to agree on several issues, including but not limited to, Defendant’s withholdings of certain 

records, in full and in part, pursuant to claimed exemptions under FOIA. Because summary 

judgment is necessary to resolve those issues, the parties have reached agreement on a schedule as 

follows: 

 May 24, 2018 Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment (30 pages) 

 June 21, 2018 Plaintiff’s Combined Cross-Motion for Summary 

Judgment/Opposition to Defendant’s Motion (40 pages) 

 July 19, 2018 Defendant’s Combined Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion/Reply 

in Support of Their Motion for Summary Judgment (35 pages) 

 August 9, 2018 Plaintiff’s Reply in Support of Its Motion for Summary 

Judgment (25 pages) 

 August 23, 2018 Requested Hearing Date 

 

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February 16, 2018 Respectfully submitted, 

By /s/ Aaron Mackey

 Aaron Mackey 

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION 

815 Eddy Street 

San Francisco, CA 94109 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

February 16, 2018 Respectfully submitted, 

CHAD A. READLER 

Acting Assistant Attorney General 

BRIAN STRETCH 

United States Attorney 

ELIZABETH J. SHAPIRO 

Deputy Branch Director 

By /s/

 RODNEY PATTON 

Senior Trial Counsel 

JULIA A. BERMAN 

Trial Attorney 

United States Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 

20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20001 

Attorneys for Defendant 

DECLARATION PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 5-1(I)(3) 

Pursuant to Civil L.R. 5-1(i)(3), I, Aaron Mackey, declare that I obtained the concurrence of 

Rodney Patton, counsel for Defendant, United States Department of Justice, in the filing of this 

document. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the foregoing is 

true and correct. Executed this 16th day of February, 2018 in San Francisco, California 

DATED: February 16, 2018 Respectfully submitted, 

 By /s/ Aaron Mackey

Aaron Mackey 

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