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Parties Involved:
Center for Biological Diversity
Plaintiff
Earth Island Institute
Plaintiff
Dean Gould
Defendant
Sierra Forest Products
Intervenor Defendant
United States Forest Service
Defendant

Document Text:

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Justin Augustine (CA Bar No. 235561)

Anchun Jean Su (CA Bar No. 285167)

Center for Biological Diversity

1212 Broadway, Suite 800

Oakland, CA 94612 

(415) 436-9682 

jaugustine@biologicaldiversity.org

jsu@biologicaldiversity.org

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY and 

EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE,

Plaintiffs,

v.

DEAN GOULD, Sierra National Forest Supervisor,

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the UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE,

Defendants, and

SIERRA FOREST PRODUCTS, a California Corporation,

Defendant-Intervenor.

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No. 1:15-cv-01329-WBS-EPG

STIPULATION TO VACATE 

STATUS CONFERENCE AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Date: January 4, 2016

Time: 2:00 PM

Courtroom: 5, 14th Floor

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Under Local Rule 143, the Parties have stipulated to request the Court to vacate the 

requirements for a joint status report and status conference in the Court’s Status (Pretrial

Scheduling) Order. ECF No. 11. The Parties believe that this case has progressed beyond any 

need for pretrial scheduling. 

On September 4, 2015, this Court ordered counsel to appear for a January 4, 2016, status 

(pretrial scheduling) conference, and to submit a joint status report fourteen calendar days 

before then. Id. Since then, the Parties have briefed this case on cross-motions for summary 

judgment, and the Court has held oral argument on November 30, 2015. Minutes, ECF No. 30. 

The Parties therefore jointly request the Court vacate the Order to the extent it requires the 

January 4, 2016, Status Conference and its associated Status Report.

Approving this stipulation will not cause undue prejudice or harm to the Parties’ rights 

or interests because there are no current deadlines in this case, and the Parties do not anticipate a 

trial. Further, approving this stipulation will serve the public interest by conserving the Court’s 

and the Parties’ scarce and valuable resources that they would otherwise spend on the status 

conference and the joint status report.

Respectfully submitted this 9th day of December,

/s/ Justin Augustine 

Justin Augustine (CA Bar No. 235561)

Anchun Jean Su (CA Bar No. 285167)

Center for Biological Diversity

1212 Broadway, Suite 800

Oakland, CA 94612

(415) 436-9682

jaugustine@biologicaldiversity.org

jsu@biologicaldiversity.org

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

JOHN C. CRUDEN

Assistant Attorney General

/s/ Jared S. Pettinato (by JJA with authorization)

JARED S. PETTINATO, MT Bar No. 7434

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JULIE S. THROWER, CA Bar No. 253472

Trial Attorneys

United States Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

Natural Resources Section

P.O. Box 7611

Washington, D.C. 20044-7611

(202) 305-0203 (Pettinato)

(415) 744-3161 (Thrower)

(202) 353-0506 (fax)

Jared.Pettinato@usdoj.gov 

Julie Thrower @usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Federal Defendants

Of Counsel for Federal Defendants:

Ritu Ahuja

Attorney

Office of the General Counsel

United States Department of Agriculture

Thomas C. Brodersen #128411

WILLIAMS, BRODERSEN & PRITCHETT LLP

2222 West Main Street

Visalia, California 93291

Telephone: (559) 635-9000

Facsimile: (559) 635-9085

E-mail: brodersen@wbplawyers.com

/s/ Lawson Fite (by JJA with authorization)

Lawson Fite (Ore. Bar #055573), Pro Hac Vice

American Forest Resource Council

5100 S.W. Macadam, Suite 350

Portland, Oregon 97239

Telephone: (503) 222-9505

Fax: (503) 222-3255

lfite@amforest.org

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenor

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Pursuant to the above Stipulation, the Court hereby vacates its September 4, 2015, Order 

to the extent it ordered the Parties to attend a January 4, 2016, Status Conference, and to the 

extent it required the Parties to file a joint status report.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 10, 2015

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on December 9, 2015, I electronically filed the foregoing with the 

Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to all 

parties. 

/s/ Justin Augustine

JUSTIN AUGUSTINE

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