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Parties Involved:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Plaintiff
National Security Agency
Defendant
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Defendant

Document Text:

STIPULATED REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT

BRIEFING TO PERMIT REPROCESSING OF DOCUMENT AND PROPOSED ORDER 

Case No.: 14-cv-03010-RS 

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BENJAMIN C. MIZER 

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General 

MELINDA HAAG 

United States Attorney 

ELIZABETH J. SHAPIRO 

Deputy Branch Director 

RODNEY PATTON 

Trial Attorney 

JULIA BERMAN 

Trial Attorney 

United States Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 

20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, DC 20001 

Tel: (202) 616-8480 

Fax: (202) 616-8470 

Email: julia.berman@usdoj.gov 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, 

Plaintiff, 

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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, OFFICE 

OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL 

INTELLIGENCE, 

Defendants.

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 Case No.: 14-cv-03010-RS 

 STIPULATED REQUEST FOR 

 CONTINUANCE OF SUMMARY 

 JUDGMENT BRIEFING TO PERMIT 

 REPROCESSING OF DOCUMENT 

 AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

 Hon. Richard Seeborg 

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Pursuant to Civil L.R. 6-2, Defendants hereby request a continuance of the upcoming 

summary judgment briefing for Defendants to complete reprocessing of the single document 

responsive to Plaintiff’s May 6, 2014 Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests that remains 

in contention in this matter. In support of this motion, the Government states as follows: 

1. Throughout this litigation, the parties have worked to narrow the scope of the issues 

in this action. After the parties agreed to a narrowing of Plaintiff’s FOIA requests, Defendants 

produced 16 responsive documents, all of which contained redactions pursuant to claimed FOIA 

exemptions. Defendants also withheld in full 107 documents responsive to Plaintiff’s requests. 

2. The parties conferred after the completion of the Defendants’ production, and 

agreed that the only issue remaining in contention in this matter is one record withheld in full 

pursuant to FOIA exemptions (b)(1), (b)(3), and (b)(5). See Joint Case Management Statement, 

ECF No. 24, at 5. The parties then submitted a proposed schedule for summary judgment briefing 

regarding that issue. See id.

3. The Court adopted the parties’ proposed summary judgment briefing schedule in an 

Order dated May 19, 2015. See Order Adopting Proposed Briefing Schedule and Vacating Case 

Management Conference, ECF No. 25. 

4. Under the current schedule:

a. On or before August 12, 2015, defendants will file their motion for summary judgment. 

b. On or before September 11, 2015, plaintiff will file its combined cross-motion for 

summary judgment and opposition to defendants’ motion. 

c. On or before October 16, 2015, defendants will file their combined opposition to 

plaintiff’s motion and reply in support of their motion. 

d. On or before October 30, 2015, plaintiff will file its reply in support of its motion. 

Id. at 1.

5. Defendants have now determined that the single document that remains in 

contention in this case may be reprocessed and released in part. Defendants have begun that 

process and anticipate that they will be able to produce a redacted version of the document to 

Plaintiff by September 3. 

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6. Plaintiff has agreed to review the reprocessed document, in conjunction with a 

Vaughn index for that document, to determine whether it is satisfied with the disclosure or whether 

it will challenge the redactions taken in the document. Plaintiff has agreed to inform the 

Defendants of how it wishes to proceed by September 17, 2015.

7. At that time, the parties propose to file an update with the Court, informing the 

Court of whether any substantive matters remain in contention, and, if so, proposing a new 

schedule for summary judgment briefing that would begin in October 2015. 

8. The requested continuance would suspend the deadlines currently on the calendar in 

this matter. The parties respectfully request this relief to enable them to confer regarding the 

reprocessed document, and to avoid potentially unnecessary briefing regarding the merits of this 

matter. 

9. There have been no prior extensions or continuances as to the summary judgement 

briefing schedule described in paragraph 4. 

For all of these reasons, the parties respectfully request that the Court continue the current 

summary judgment briefing schedule and order that the parties submit a status report, including, if 

any substantive matters remain in contention, a new proposed summary judgment briefing schedule 

by September 25, 2015. 

DATED: August 11, 2015 Respectfully submitted, 

BENJAMIN C. MIZER

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General 

MELINDA HAAG 

United States Attorney 

ELIZABETH J. SHAPIRO 

Deputy Branch Director 

/s/ Julia A. Berman 

RODNEY PATTON 

JULIA A. BERMAN, Bar No. 241415 

United States Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch

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20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20001 

Telephone: (202) 616-8480 

Facsimile: (202) 616-8470 

Attorneys for Defendants

_/s/ Andrew Crocker__________

Andrew Crocker 

Mark Rumold 

Nathan Cardozo 

Jennifer Lynch 

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

815 Eddy St.

San Francisco, CA 94109 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 Electronic Frontier Foundation 

ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 5-1(i)(3) 

 I, Julia Berman, hereby attest that I obtained the concurrence of Andrew Crocker, counsel 

for the Plaintiff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, in the filing of this document. 

 _/s/ Julia A. Berman______

 JULIA A. BERMAN 

 Trial Attorney 

United States Department of Justice 

Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 

20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20001 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, it is hereby ORDERED that the current summary judgment 

briefing schedule is continued, and it is further ORDERED that the parties shall submit a status 

report, including, if any substantive matters remain in contention, a new proposed summary 

judgment briefing schedule by September 25, 2015. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ___________________ _______________________________ 

 HON. RICHARD SEEBORG 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

8/11/15

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