Electronic Frontier Foundation v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence

MOTION to Appear

N.D. Cal.January 7, 2008

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 No. C. 07-5278 SI – Defendant’s Motion To Participate In Case Management Conference By Telephone 1 JEFFREY S. BUCHOLTZ Acting Assistant Attorney General CARL J. NICHOLS Deputy Assistant Attorney General SCOTT N. SCHOOLS United States Attorney ELIZABETH J. SHAPIRO Assistant Director, Federal Programs Branch ANDREW I. WARDEN (IN Bar No. 23840-49) Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Room 6120 Washington, D.C. 20530 Telephone: (202) 616-5084 Facsimile: (202) 616-8460 Andrew.Warden@usdoj.gov Attorneys for Defendant Office of the Director of National Intelligence UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION __________________________________________ ) No. C 07-5278 SI ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, ) ) DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO Plaintiff, ) PARTICIPATE IN CASE ) MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE v. ) BY TELEPHONE ) OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL ) Case Management Conference INTELLIGENCE, ) Date: January 25, 2008 ) Time: 2:00 p.m. Defendant, ) __________________________________________) Pursuant to Civil L.R. 16-10(a), counsel for Defendant Office of the Director of National Intelligence hereby requests to participate by telephone in the case management conference scheduled to occur at 2:00 p.m. on January 25, 2008 in the above-captioned matter. Counsel for defendants is an attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and believes that the issues to be addressed at the case management conference can be efficiently handled through his participation by telephone rather than requiring the government to incur the expense of Case 3:07-cv-05278-SI Document 30 Filed 01/07/2008 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 No. C. 07-5278 SI – Defendant’s Motion To Participate In Case Management Conference By Telephone 2 providing for counsel’s travel and lodging in San Francisco to attend the conference in person. Defendant’s counsel has conferred with plaintiff’s counsel who has no objections to this request. A proposed order is attached hereto. Dated: January 7, 2008 Respectfully submitted, JEFFREY S. BUCHOLTZ Acting Assistant Attorney General CARL J. NICHOLS Deputy Assistant Attorney General SCOTT N. SCHOOLS United States Attorney ELIZABETH J. SHAPIRO Assistant Director, Federal Programs Branch /S/ Andrew I. Warden ANDREW I. WARDEN (IN Bar No. 23840-49) Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Room 6120 Washington, D.C. 20530 Telephone: (202) 616-5084 Facsimile: (202) 616-8460 E-mail: Andrew.Warden@usdoj.gov Attorneys for Defendant Office of the Director of National Intelligence Case 3:07-cv-05278-SI Document 30 Filed 01/07/2008 Page 2 of 2