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Parties Involved:
Butte Environmental Council
Plaintiff
California Native Plant Society
Plaintiff
Defenders of Wildlife
Plaintiff
Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior
Defendant
San Joaquin Raptor and Wildlife Rescue Center
Plaintiff
Sierra Foothills Audubon Society
Plaintiff
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Defendant
VernalPools.org
Plaintiff

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Brian Segee (Calif. Bar No. 200795) 

Jason Rylander (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) 

Defenders of Wildlife 

1130 17th Street, NW 

Washington, D.C. 20036 

Telephone: (202) 682-9400 

Facsimile: (202) 682-1331 

bsegee@defenders.org, jrylander@defenders.org

Neil Levine (Calif. Bar No. 163557) 

1400 Glenarm Place, Suite 300 

Denver, CO 80202 

Telephone: (303) 996-9611 

Facsimile: (303) 623-8083 

nlevine@earthjustice.org

Attorneys for Plaintiffs/Defendant-Intervenors 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF 

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, et al., 

Plaintiffs; 

v. 

UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE 

SERVICE et al., 

Defendants; 

and 

DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, et al.; 

DefendantIntervenors. 

BUTTE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL, 

et al.; 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

GALE NORTON, Secretary of the Interior, 

and U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, 

 Defendants; 

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No: 2:05-cv-00629-WBS-GGH 

(Consolidated with Case No. 2:05-cv-02524-

WBS-GGH) 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

TO STAY BRIEFING AND 

CONSIDERATION OF PLAINTIFFS' 

MOTION FOR ATTORNEY FEES AND 

COSTS 

Plaintiffs Butte Environmental Council, Defenders of Wildlife and California Native Plant 

Society, San Joaquin Raptor and Wildlife Rescue Center, Sierra Foothills Audubon Society and 

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Joint Motion to Stay Briefing 

vernalpools.org and Federal Defendants Dirk Kempthorne and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service jointly stipulate and request court approval staying the briefing and consideration of 

Plaintiffs' Motion for Attorney Fees and Costs, which is being filed concurrently with this 

Stipulation. Plaintiffs filed the Motion for Attorney Fees and Costs to comply with the timing 

requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(d) and Local Rules 54-292 and 54-293. The parties request 

a stay of briefing until July 23, 2007, 60 days after Defendants complete the court-ordered 

remand and send a new decision to the Federal Register on May 24, 2007 (which is 120 days 

from the Court's January 24, 2007 Order). A stay will allow time for the parties to attempt to 

resolve the attorney fees and costs motion without the assistance of the court and to account for 

the possibility of an appeal. Plaintiffs will file a Noticed Motion and their supporting papers at 

the conclusion of the stay period if the issue is not resolved. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Dated: February 6, 2007 /s/ Neil Levine_

 Neil Levine 

 Brian Segee 

 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Dated: February 6, 2007 /s/ Kevin McArdle___ 

 Kevin McArdle 

 U.S. Dept. of Justice 

Attorney for Federal Defendants 

 

IT IS SO ORDERED. This order constitutes a continuance of the briefing schedule, not a stay 

of any prior order of the court. 

Dated: February 8, 2007 

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Joint Motion to Stay Briefing 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on February 6, 2007, I electronically transmitted the attached 

document to the Clerk’s Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and transmittal of a Notice 

of Electronic Filing to the following CM/ECF registrants: 

Kevin McArdle 

U.S. Dep't of Justice 

Environment & Natural Resources Division 

Wildlife & Marine Resources Section 

Kevin.mcardle@usdoj.gov

 /s/ Neil Levine

 

 

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