Khalid v. DHS et al

Filing 42

ORDER entered GRANTING 39 MOTION for Leave to File Excess Pages (Signed by Judge Lee H Rosenthal) Parties notified.(leddins, 4)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
HOUSTON DIVISION
HAFIZ MATIULLAH KHALID, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
VS.
DHS, USA and USCIS,
Defendants.

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CIVIL ACTION NO. H-12-3492

ORDER
On July 18, 2014, the defendants filed a 56 page summary-judgment motion concurrently
with a motion to exceed the court’s 25 page limit for summary-judgment motions. The plaintiff filed
a response to the motion to exceed the page limit and argued that the motion was excessive and
contained unnecessary facts. The certified administrative record in this case is a voluminous 1,500
pages and the issues involve a detailed and a complex regulatory framework. Due to the complexity
of the record and the legal issues, the court grants the motion to exceed the page limit. See Golden
v. Austin Cnty. Sheriff’s Dep’t, No. 4:09-cv-817, 2009 WL 3734153, at *1 (S.D. Tex. Nov. 5, 2009);
Harris v. Fresenius Med. Care, No. 4:04-cv-4807, 2006 WL 2065313, at *1 n.2 (S.D. Tex. July 24,
2006); Colindres v. Quietflex Mfg., 427 F. Supp. 2d 737, 740 n.2 (S.D. Tex. 2006). The plaintiffs
may move for an extension of time to respond or to exceed the response brief page limit.
SIGNED on August 5, 2014, at Houston, Texas.
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Lee H. Rosenthal
United States District Judge