Center For Biological Diversity et al v. Export-Import Bank of the United States et al

Filing 18

ORDER, Motions terminated: 17 Joint MOTION to Stay Initial Case Deadlines Pending Resolution of Defendants' Motion to Transfer Venue and Proposed Order filed by Pacific Environment, Turtle Island Restoration Network, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Fred P. Hochberg, Center For Biological Diversity.. Signed by Judge ARMSTRONG on 2/15/13. (lrc, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/19/2013)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Sarah Uhlemann (WA Bar No. 41164) Center for Biological Diversity 2400 NW 80th Street, #146 Seattle, WA 98117 Telephone: (206) 327-2344 Facsimile: (415) 436-9683 suhlemann@biologicaldiversity.org Brendan Cummings (CA Bar No. 193952) Center for Biological Diversity P.O. Box 549 Joshua Tree, CA 92252 Telephone: (760) 366-2232 Facsimile: (760) 366-2669 bcummings@biologicaldiversity.org 10 11 12 13 14 Miyoko Sakashita (CA Bar No. 239639) Center for Biological Diversity 351 California Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: (415) 436-9682 Facsimile: (415) 436-9683 miyoko@biologicaldiversity.org 15 16 17 18 19 Attorneys for Plaintiffs IGNACIA S. MORENO, Assistant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice Environment & Natural Resources Division 26 MEREDITH L. FLAX, Senior Trial Attorney (D.C. Bar No. 468016) Wildlife & Marine Resources Section KRISTOFOR SWANSON, Trial Attorney (CO Bar No. 39378) Natural Resources Section Ben Franklin Station, P.O. Box 7611 Washington, D.C. 20044-7611 Telephone: (202) 305-0404; (202) 305-0248 Facsimile: (202) 305-0275; (202) 305-0506 meredith.flax@usdoj.gov kristofor.swanson@usdoj.gov 27 Attorneys for Defendants 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division 1 2 3 4 5 CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, et al., 6 Plaintiffs, 7 v. 8 9 EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, et al., 10 Defendants. 11 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 4:12-cv-06325-SBA JOINT MOTION TO STAY INITIAL CASE DEADLINES PENDING RESOLUTION OF DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO TRANSFER VENUE 12 13 The parties in the above-captioned action hereby move to stay the current initial case 14 deadlines in this matter until resolution of Defendants’ motion to transfer venue to the United 15 States District Court for the District of Columbia (see ECF No. 15). Specifically, the parties 16 seek to postpone the current deadline for Defendants to answer or otherwise respond to 17 Plaintiffs’ Complaint and the deadlines set forth in the Court’s December 13, 2012, Order Setting 18 Initial Case Management Conference and ADR Deadlines (ECF No. 2) as revised by the Court’s 19 February 13, 2013, Case Management Scheduling Order for Reassigned Civil Cases (ECF No. 20 16). This is the first request for a time modification of any kind in this case. Good cause exists 21 for granting this motion, as follows: 22 1. Plaintiffs filed this action on December 13, 2012, and served Defendants with the 23 Complaint on or around December 20, 2012. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24 12(a)(2), Defendants must answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint on or before February 25 19, 2013. The Court’s Order Setting Initial Case Management Conference and ADR Deadlines 26 set an initial case management conference for March 14, 2013, but the case management 27 conference was rescheduled for May 22, 2013 after the case was reassigned. 28 JOINT MOTION TO STAY 1 Case No. 4:12-cv-06325-SBA 1 2. Counsel for the parties held a conference call to discuss case management on 2 January 24, 2013. At that time, Plaintiffs’ counsel informed Defendants’ counsel that Plaintiffs 3 intend to amend their complaint to add certain additional claims. Because of certain 4 jurisdictional notice requirements that may apply to some of those claims, however, the 5 complaint would not be amended until after March 4, 2013. See 16 U.S.C. § 1540(g). During 6 the call, Defendants’ counsel informed Plaintiffs’ counsel that Defendants intended to move to 7 transfer venue for this action to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. 8 9 10 3. Defendants filed their motion to transfer venue on February 12, 2013 (ECF No. 15). Plaintiffs oppose the transfer, and the motion is set for a hearing on April 23, 2013. 4. Because Plaintiffs intend to amend their complaint after Defendants’ current 11 February 19 response date, that response date should be extended to avoid the duplication of 12 effort and waste of resources in responding to a complaint that will be amended thereafter. In 13 addition, if granted, Defendants’ pending motion to transfer would remove the case from this 14 Court’s docket altogether. Thus, judicial economy favors staying the current initial case 15 deadlines until the Court can resolve the motion to transfer. Rescheduling of Defendants’ 16 answer date, the date for filing the Case Management Statement, the initial case management 17 conference, and the meet and confer and ADR deadlines set forth in the Court’s December 13, 18 2012, scheduling order should therefore not occur until it is certain that this case will proceed in 19 this jurisdiction. Should the court deny the motion to transfer venue, the parties propose to 20 submit a proposed schedule within ten days of such denial. 21 Based upon the foregoing, the parties’ motion to stay current initial case deadlines should 22 be granted. 23 Respectfully submitted this 13th day of February, 2013, 24 /s/ Sarah Uhlemann Sarah Uhlemann (WA Bar No. 41164) Center for Biological Diversity 2400 NW 80th Street, #146 Seattle, WA 98117 Telephone: (206) 327-2344 Facsimile: (415) 436-9683 25 26 27 28 JOINT MOTION TO STAY 2 Case No. 4:12-cv-06325-SBA 1 suhlemann@biologicaldiversity.org 2 Brendan Cummings (CA Bar No. 193952) Center for Biological Diversity P.O. Box 549 Joshua Tree, CA 92252 Telephone: (760) 366-2232 Facsimile: (760) 366-2669 bcummings@biologicaldiversity.org 3 4 5 6 7 11 Miyoko Sakashita (CA Bar No. 239639) Center for Biological Diversity 351 California Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: (415) 436-9682 Facsimile: (415) 436-9683 miyoko@biologicaldiversity.org 12 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 13 IGNACIA S. MORENO, Assistant Attorney General Environment & Natural Resources Division 8 9 10 14 15 /s/ Meredith L. Flax MEREDITH L. FLAX, Senior Trial Attorney D.C. Bar No. 468016 Wildlife & Marine Resources Section Ben Franklin Station, P.O. Box 7611 Washington, D.C. 20044-7611 Telephone: (202) 305-0404 Facsimile: (202) 305-0275 meredith.flax@usdoj.gov 16 17 18 19 20 21 /s/ Kristofor R. Swanson KRISTOFOR R. SWANSON, Trial Attorney Colo. Bar No. 39378 Natural Resources Section Ben Franklin Station, P.O. Box 7611 Washington, D.C. 20044-7611 Telephone: (202) 305-0248 Facsimile: (202) 305-0506 kristofor.swanson@usdoj.gov 22 23 24 25 26 27 Attorneys for Defendants 28 JOINT MOTION TO STAY 3 Case No. 4:12-cv-06325-SBA 1 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: 2 3 4 2/15/13 Date SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG United States District Judge 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 JOINT MOTION TO STAY 4 Case No. 4:12-cv-06325-SBA 1 2 3 ATTORNEY ATTESTATION OF CONCURRENCE I hereby attest that I have obtained concurrence in this filing for the signature of Plaintiffs’ counsel indicated by a “conformed” signature (“/s/”) within this e-filed document. 4 5 DATED: February 13, 2013 6 7 8 9 10 /s/ Meredith L. Flax MEREDITH L. FLAX U.S. Department of Justice Environment & Natural Resources Division Wildlife & Marine Resources Section Ben Franklin Station, P.O. Box 7369 Washington, D.C. 20044-7369 Telephone: (202) 305-0404 Facsimile: (202) 305-0275 meredith.flax@usdoj.gov 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 JOINT MOTION TO STAY 5 Case No. 4:12-cv-06325-SBA

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