Public.Resource.org v. United States Internal Revenue Service

Filing 79

Order by Hon. William H. Orrick granting 78 Stipulation Extending Plaintiff's Deadline to Move to Recover Attorneys' Fees and Costs. (jmdS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 4/23/2015)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 THOMAS R. BURKE (CA State Bar No. 141930) RONALD G. LONDON (Pro Hac Vice) DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP 505 Montgomery Street, Suite 800 San Francisco, California 94111 Phone: (415) 276-6500/Fax: (415) 276-6599 Email: thomasburke@dwt.com DAN LAIDMAN (CA State Bar No. 274482) DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP 865 South Figueroa Street, Suite 2400 Los Angeles, CA 90017-2566 Phone: (213) 633-6800/Fax: (213) 633-6899 Email: danlaidman@dwt.com 10 DAVID HALPERIN (Pro Hac Vice) 1530 P Street NW Washington, DC 20005 Telephone: (202) 905-3434 Email: davidhalperindc@gmail.com 11 Attorneys for Plaintiff Public.Resource.Org 12 MELINDA HAAG United States Attorney CAROLINE D. CIRAOLO Acting Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division CHRISTOPHER W. SANDERS Trial Attorney, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice Post Office Box 227, Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044 Phone: (202) 616-1840/Fax: (202) 514-6866 Email: Christopher.W.Sanders@usdoj.gov 9 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Attorneys for Defendant United States Internal Revenue Service IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG., a California non- ) profit organization, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE ) SERVICE, ) ) Defendant. ) Case No. 13-cv-02789 WHO STIPULATION AND ORDER EXTENDING PLAINTIFF’S DEADLINE TO MOVE TO RECOVER ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS 28 1 STIPULATION AND ORDER EXTENDING PLAINTIFF’S DEADLINE TO MOVE TO RECOVER ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS Case No. 13-cv-02789-WHO 12643314.1 1 2 3 The parties, through their respective counsel of record, submit the following stipulation and request that the Court issue an order as requested: WHEREAS, on January 29, 2015, this Court granted the Motion for Summary Judgment 4 of Plaintiff Public.Resource.Org, denied the Motion for Summary Judgment of Defendant United 5 States Internal Revenue Service, and entered Judgment in favor of Plaintiff; 6 7 WHEREAS, Plaintiff intends to move to recover attorneys’ fees and costs pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(E); 8 WHEREAS, the Plaintiff’s Fee Motion is currently due by May 5, 2015; 9 WHEREAS, the parties agree that an extension of Plaintiff’s deadline to file a Fee Motion DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP 10 will allow the parties additional time to confer and consider attorneys’ fees and costs issues that 11 could lead to narrowing issues to be presented in a future motion for fees and costs, or to 12 eliminating the need to file such a motion; 13 NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED THAT: 14 Plaintiff’s deadline to file a motion to recover attorneys’ fees and costs shall be 15 extended until June 5, 2015. 16 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 17 DATED this 22nd day of April, 2015. 18 MELINDA HAAG United States Attorney CAROLINE D. CIRAOLO Acting Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division CHRISTOPHER W. SANDERS Trial Attorney, Tax Division By: /s/ Christopher W. Sanders CHRISTOPHER W. SANDERS Attorneys for Defendant United States Internal Revenue Service 19 20 21 22 23 24 DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP By: /s/ Thomas R. Burke THOMAS R. BURKE Attorneys for Plaintiff Public.Resource.Org 25 26 27 28 2 STIPULATION AND ORDER EXTENDING PLAINTIFF’S DEADLINE TO MOVE TO RECOVER ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS Case No. 13-cv-02789-WHO 12643314.1 1 2 3 ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO GENERAL ORDER 45 I, Christopher W. Sanders, hereby attest that concurrences in the filing of this document have been obtained from each of the signatories. 4 /s/ Christopher W. Sanders Christopher W. Sanders 5 6 7 8 9 ORDER Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, and good cause appearing, the foregoing is approved and IT IS SO ORDERED. DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP 10 11 12 13 April 23, 2015 Date: ____________________ _________________________________ United States District Court Judge 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3 STIPULATION AND ORDER EXTENDING PLAINTIFF’S DEADLINE TO MOVE TO RECOVER ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS Case No. 13-cv-02789-WHO 12643314.1

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