Hepting et al v. AT&T Corp. et al

Filing 333

Letter from Cindy A. Cohn. (Cohn, Cindy) (Filed on 8/10/2006)

Hepting et al v. AT&T Corp. et al

Doc. 333

Electronic
Protecting R;ghls

Frontier
and Promot;ng Freedom

Foundation
on the Electronic Frontier

August 10, 2006

Via Electronic Hon. Vaughn
R.

Filing
Walker

Chief
d e t i n U

Judge
States District Court

for the Northern District of California
Courtroom 6

450 Golden Gate Avenue, 17th Floor
n a S Francisco, CA 94102

RE:
g n i t p e H

v.

AT&T,

C-O6-0672-VRW

r

a

e

D

Judge

Walker:

e

W

write

to

inform

you

that

pursuant

to

28

V.S.C.

§

1407,

the

Judicial

Panel

on

Multi-

District Litigation has transferred the casesknown as In re National Security Agency
s n o i t a c i n u m m o c e l e T Records Litigation (MDL 1791) to the Northern District of a i n r o f i l a C and, with the Court's consent, to this Court. Attached is a copy of the Transfer

,

r

e

d

r

O

which

issued

on

August

9,

2006.

g

n

i

r

u

D

the

hearing

on

August

8.

2006.

the

Court

indicated

that

it

was

inclined

to

issue

a

d

e

t

i

m

i

l

stay

pending

the

MOL

panel

decision.

Since

that

decision

has

now

issued.

Plaintiffs renew their request to issue limited discovery in this case and to take the other
s p e t s outlined during the hearing and in Plaintiffs' Brief on the Order to Show Cause

t

k

O

(

#317).

Additionally.

we

would

ask

that

the

parties

be

allowed

to

take

the

necessary

steps to coordinate the Hepting case along with the other actions that have been
d e r r e f s n a r t so that we may set the

Sincerely,
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~~stage for a speedy resolution of

these

disputes.

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n

i

C

A.

Cohn

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on August 10, 2006, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the e-mail addresses denoted on the attached Electronic Mail Notice List, and I hereby certify that I have mailed the foregoing document or paper via the United States Postal Service to the following nonCM/ECF participants: David W. Carpenter Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP Bank One Plaza 10 South Dearborn Street Chicago, IL 60600 David L. Lawson Sidley Austin Brown & Wood 1501 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Peter D. Keisler USDOJ Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20001 Susan Freiwald University of San Francisco School of Law 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94117 Eric Schneider 1730 South Federal Hwy. #104 Delray Beach, FL 33483 By /s/ Cindy A. Cohn, Esq. (SBN.145997) ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Telephone: [phone] x108 Facsimile: [phone] [e-mail]

PROOF OF SERVICE