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Parties Involved:
Alphonso Jackson
Defendant
Andrea Ouellette
Plaintiff
Christine Savala
Plaintiff
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Defendant

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LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

STEPHEN E. GOLDBERG, State Bar No. 173499

JOHN F. GIANOLA, State Bar No. 153228

619 North Street

Woodland, CA 95695

Telephone: (530) 662-1065

Facsimile: (530) 662-7941

LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

MONA TAWATAO, State Bar No. 128779

515 12th Street

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 551-2150

Facsimile: (916) 551-2196

CHRISTOPHER BRANCART, State Bar No. 128475

BRANCART & BRANCART

Post Office Box 686

Pescadero, California 94060

Telephone: (650) 879-0141

Fax: (650) 879-1103

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

) Case No. CIV-S-06-0584 LLK PAN

CHRISTINE SAVALA and )

ANDREA OUELLETTE, ) REQUEST FOR DISMISSAL OF

) ACTION WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Plaintiffs, ) PURSUANT TO AGREEMENT BY HUD

) TO RESOLVE MATTER; and 

v. ) ORDER

)

ALPHONSO JACKSON, Secretary, )

United States Department of Housing and )

Urban Development; UNITED STATES )

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING )

AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, )

)

Defendants. )

)

On March 20, 2006, plaintiffs filed the complaint in this action, challenging a final agency

action by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Specifically,

in a Notice of Funding Application for permanent supportive housing programs, dated March 21

2005, HUD changed the definition of homeless for purposes of eligibility for the Shelter Plus Care

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program. Under that change, HUD mandated that persons who previously resided in a

rehabilitation or treatment program were not considered "homeless" for purposes of the Shelter

Plus Care program, and therefore were ineligible for permanent supportive housing under that

program. In their complaint, plaintiffs contend that HUD's new policy is invalid because (1) it

was not promulgated in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act; (2) it violates the

governing statutory definition of homeless for permanent supportive housing programs; and (3) it

constitutes discrimination against persons with disabilities in violation of the Fair Housing Act.

On April 5, 2006, following the filing of the complaint, plaintiffs received a letter, dated

March 30, 2006, from Mark Johnston, HUD's Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special

Needs. In that letter, a copy of which is attached hereto, Mr. Johnston states that HUD did not

intend the final agency action challenged by plaintiffs and that HUD would take corrective action

to address the concerns identified by plaintiffs. Based upon that representation, plaintiffs hereby

request that the complaint in this action be dismissed without prejudice. 

Dated: May ____, 2006. 

Respectfully submitted, 

LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN 

 CALIFORNIA

BRANCART & BRANCART

/signature on original

Christopher Brancart

Brancart & Brancart

Attorney for Plaintiffs

ORDER

Based upon the foregoing statement, and good cause appearing therefor, this action is

hereby dismissed without prejudice. 

Dated: May 4, 2006. 

/s/Lawrence K. Karlton 

Hon. Lawrence K. Karlton

U.S. District Judge

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PROOF OF SERVICE

I am over the age of 18 and am not a party to the within action. My business address is

8205 Pescadero Road, Loma Mar, California 94021.

On May ____, 2006, I served a true and correct copy of the following document(s): 

REQUEST FOR DISMISSAL OF ACTION WITHOUT PREJUDICE

PURSUANT TO AGREEMENT BY HUD TO RESOLVE MATTER;

[PROPOSED] ORDER

upon the following person(s):

Mr. Stephen E. Goldberg, Legal Services of Northern California, 619 North Street,

Woodland, CA 95695; and, 

Ms. Mona Tawatao, Legal Services of Northern California, 515 -- 12th Street,

Sacramento, CA 95814 

BY HAND DELIVERY: By causing such document(s) to be delivered by hand to

the above person(s) at the address(es) set forth above. 

 XX BY MAIL: By placing a copy thereof enclosed in a sealed envelope, with postage

thereon fully prepaid, in the United States mail at Loma Mar, California, addressed

as set forth above. 

BY THIRD-PARTY COMMERCIAL CARRIER (OVERNIGHT

DELIVERY): By delivering a copy thereof to a third-party commercial carrier,

addressed as set forth above, for delivery on the next business day. 

BY FACSIMILE: By transmitting the above document(s) to the facsimile

number(s) of the addressee(s) designated above. 

I certify that I am employed in the office of a member of the bar of this court at whose

direction the service was made. 

Executed on May ____, 2006, at Loma Mar, California. 

Katja M. Thomas 

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