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Parties Involved:
Michael Charles Colston
Plaintiff
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant

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PHILIP A. TALBERT

United States Attorney

DEBORAH LEE STACHEL

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

JEFFREY CHEN, CSBN 260516

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Social Security Administration

160 Spear Street, Suite 800

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8939

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

Email: Jeffrey.Chen@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

MICHAEL CHARLES COLSTON,

Plaintiff,

v.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, 

Acting Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

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No. 1:15-cv-01750-SKO

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR A 

FIRST EXTENSION OF TIME FOR 

DEFENDANT TO FILE HER 

RESPONSIVE BRIEF

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by the parties, through their undersigned attorneys, and 

with the approval of the Court, that Defendant shall have a first extension of time of 60 days to 

file her responsive brief. Defendant respectfully requests this additional time because he has a 

very heavy workload, including an upcoming Ninth Circuit merits brief due in the middle of 

December. In addition, the undersigned has a pre-planned holiday of two week at the end of 

December and in early January.

The new due date for Defendant’s responsive brief and opposition to Plaintiff’s brief will 

be Friday, January 20, 2017.

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Respectfully submitted,

Date: November 29, 2016 FORSLUND LAW LLC

By: /s/ Jacqueline Anna Forslund * 

JACQUELINE ANNA FORSLUND

* By email authorization on Nov. 29, 2016

Attorney for Plaintiff

Date: November 29, 2016 PHILIP A. TALBERT

United States Attorney

By: /s/ Jeffrey Chen 

JEFFREY CHEN

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

ORDER

On September 29, 2016, the Court ordered Defendant to file a responsive brief no later 

than November 21, 2016, pursuant to a stipulation of the parties. (Docs. 17 & 18.) The parties 

filed the above “Stipulation for a First Extension of Time for Defendant to File Her Responsive 

Brief” on November 29, 2016, eight days after Defendant’s responsive brief deadline expired.

The Court may extend time to act after the deadline has expired because of “excusable 

neglect.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1)(B). Here, although the Stipulation demonstrates good cause 

under to support the request for extension of time (see Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4)), no such 

excusable neglect has been articulated – much less shown –to justify the untimeliness of the 

request. Notwithstanding this deficiency, given the absence of bad faith or prejudice to Plaintiff 

(as evidenced by the parties’ agreement to the extension of time after the deadline), and in view 

of the liberal construction of Fed. R. Civ. 6(b)(1) to effectuate the general purpose of seeing that 

cases are tried on the merits, see Ahanchian v. Xenon Pictures, Inc., 624 F.3d 1253, 1258-59 (9th 

Cir. 2010), the Court GRANTS the parties’ stipulated request. The parties are cautioned that 

future post hoc request for extensions of time will be viewed with disfavor.

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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendant shall have an extension of time, to and 

including January 20, 2017, by which to file her responsive brief. Any reply by Plaintiff shall be 

due by February 6, 2017.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 2, 2016 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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