Hegar et al v. Panetta

Filing 64

STIPULATION AND ORDER resetting CMC. Case Management Statement due by 11/10/2015. Further Case Management Conference set for 11/19/2015 10:30 AM in Courtroom 5, 17th Floor, San Francisco. Signed by Judge Edward M. Chen on 9/14/15. (bpf, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/14/2015)

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1 ROSEMARIE T. RING (SBN 220769) rose.ring@mto.com 2 MARI OVERBECK (SBN 261707) mari.overbeck@mto.com 3 MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP 560 Mission Street 4 Twenty-Seventh Floor San Francisco, California 94105-2907 5 Telephone: (415) 512-4000 Facsimile: (415) 512-4077 6 MARGARET C. CROSBY (SBN 56812) 7 mcrosby@aclunc.org ELIZABETH O. GILL (SBN 218311) 8 egill@aclunc.org AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 9 FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, INC. 10 39 Drumm Street San Francisco, CA 94111 11 Telephone: (415) 621-2493 Facsimile: (415) 255-8437 12 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 13 BENJAMIN MIZER Acting Assistant Attorney General MELINDA HAAG United States Attorney ALEX TSE Chief, Civil Division ANTHONY J. COPPOLINO Deputy Branch Director CAROLINE LEWIS WOLVERTON caroline.lewis-wolverton@usdoj.gov District of Columbia Bar No. 496433 Senior Trial Counsel Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch U.S. Department of Justice P.O. Box 883 Washington, D.C. 20044 Telephone: (202) 514-0265 Facsimile: (202) 616-8470 Attorneys for Defendant ASHTON B. CARTER 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 16 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 17 18 MARY JENNINGS HEGAR, JENNIFER HUNT, ALEXANDRA ZOE BEDELL, 19 COLLEEN FARRELL, AND SERVICE WOMEN’S ACTION NETWORK, 20 Plaintiffs, 21 vs. 22 ASHTON B. CARTER, Secretary of Defense,1 23 Defendant. 24 Case No. 12-CV-06005 EMC STIPULATED REQUEST AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR CONTINUANCE OF FURTHER CMC and UPDATED CMC STATEMENT Judge: Hon. Edward M. Chen Case Management Conference: Oct. 8, 2015 Time: 10:30 a.m. 25 26 27 1 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(d), Ashton B. Carter has been substituted in his 28 official capacity for Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. CASE NO. 12-6005 EMC STIPULATED REQUEST AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 1 2 STIPULATION Plaintiffs Mary Jennings Hegar, Jennifer Hunt, Alexandra Zoe Bedell, Colleen Farrell and 3 Service Women’s Action Network and Defendant Ashton B. Carter, Secretary of Defense 4 (“Secretary”) (collectively, “the parties”), by and through their respective counsel, submit this 5 Stipulated Request and Proposed Order for a continuance of the deadline for the parties’ updated 6 joint Case Management Conference (CMC) Statement to November 10, 2015, and further CMC to 7 November 19, 2015. The joint CMC Statement is currently due October 1, 2015, and the further 8 CMC is currently scheduled for October 8, 2015. Defendant submits that the following facts and 9 circumstances set forth in the attached Declaration of counsel for Defendant Caroline Lewis 10 Wolverton establish good cause for the requested continuance as follows: 11 1. On July 30, 2015, the Court scheduled a further CMC in this matter for October 8, 12 2015, and ordered the parties to meet and confer regarding Defendants’ accession, assignment and 13 training procedures and policies and thereafter provide an updated joint CMC Statement by 14 October 1, 2015. ECF No. 60 (Aug. 4, 2015). 15 2. September 30, 2015 is the deadline for the Military Departments and U.S. Special 16 Operations Command to present final recommendations on remaining closed occupations and 17 positions to the Secretary of Defense. That date is also the deadline for each Military Department 18 Secretary to certify that all occupational standards in his/her Department are gender-neutral and in 19 compliance with all applicable public laws. 20 3. Defendant expects that the work during the weeks prior to September 30, 2015 21 associated with finalizing recommendations on remaining closed positions and ensuring that all 22 occupational standards are gender-neutral and in compliance with all applicable public laws will 23 be substantial. 24 4. Defendant believes that simultaneously completing the ordered meet-and-confer in 25 order to present a joint CMC statement by October 1, 2015, and if appropriate an accompanying 26 declaration, would strain the resources that the military must devote to the work of finalizing 27 recommendations on remaining closed positions and ensuring that all occupational standards are 28 gender-neutral and in compliance with all applicable public laws. -1CASE NO. C-12-6005 EMC STIPULATED REQUEST AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 1 5. In light of the foregoing, Defendant respectfully requests that the Court continue 2 the deadline for the further CMC to November 19, 2015 and the parties’ updated joint CMC 3 Statement to November 10, 2015. Defendant requested and received Plaintiffs’ stipulation to this 4 request.2 5 6 DATED: September 10, 2015 7 8 9 BENJAMIN MIZER Acting Assistant Attorney General MELINDA HAAG United States Attorney ALEX TSE Chief, Civil Division ANTHONY J. COPPOLINO Deputy Branch Director 10 11 /s/ Caroline Lewis Wolverton CAROLINE LEWIS WOLVERTON U.S. Department of Justice Attorneys for Defendant ASHTON B. CARTER 12 13 14 15 DATED: September 10, 2015 MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP 16 By: 17 /s/ Rosemarie T. Ring ROSEMARIE T. RING 18 Attorneys for Plaintiffs MARY JENNINGS HEGAR, JENNIFER HUNT, ALEXANDRA ZOE BEDELL, COLLEEN FARRELL, AND SERVICE WOMEN’S ACTION NETWORK 19 20 21 Additional Counsel: 22 STEVEN M. PERRY (SBN 106154) 23 MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP 355 South Grand Avenue, 35th Floor 24 Los Angeles, CA 90071-1560 Telephone: (213) 683-9100 25 Facsimile: (213) 687-3702 Email: steven.perry@mto.com 26 27 LENORA M. LAPIDUS [pro hac vice] ARIELA MIGDAL [pro hac vice] AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION WOMEN’S RIGHTS PROJECT 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10004 Telephone: (212) 549-2668 2 November 11, 2015 is Veterans Day, and the parties are in agreement that it would be preferable 28 to have the CMC statement completed before the federal holiday. -2CASE NO. C-12-6005 EMC STIPULATED REQUEST AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 1 Facsimile: (212) 549-2480 Email: Llapidus@aclu.org Email: Amigdal@aclu.org 2 3 4 5 ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO GENERAL ORDER 45 I, Caroline Lewis Wolverton, am the ECF User whose identification and password are 6 being used to file this Stipulated Request and [Proposed] Order for Continuance of Further Case 7 Management Conference and Updated Case Management Statement. In compliance with General 8 Order 45.X.B, I hereby attest that all signatories have concurred in this filing. 9 10 /s/ Caroline Lewis Wolverton 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -3CASE NO. C-12-6005 EMC STIPULATED REQUEST AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 1 [PROPOSED] ORDER 2 Pursuant to the stipulated request, and based on good cause shown, it is hereby 3 ORDERED that the Stipulated Request for Continuance of Further Case Management 4 Conference and Updated Case Management Statement is hereby GRANTED; and it is further 5 ORDERED that the Further Case Management Conference is hereby CONTINUED to 6 November 19, 2015; and it is further ORDERED that the deadline for the parties’ Updated Joint CMC Statement is J ER H 14 15 R NIA . Chen ward M udge Ed RT 13 United States District Judge NO 12 DERED SO OR IT IS HONORABLE EDWARD M. CHEN FO 11 9/14/15 LI 10 Dated: UNIT ED 9 S DISTRICT TE C TA RT U O S 8 CONTINUED to November 10, 2015. A 7 N F D IS T IC T O R C 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -4CASE NO. C-12-6005 EMC STIPULATED REQUEST AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

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