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Case 1:07-cv-00232-EJD

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS CHRISTOPHER J. GRUSH, Plaintiff, v. THE UNITED STATES, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

Case No. 07-232C (Chief Judge Damich)

JOINT STATUS REPORT Pursuant to the Order issued by the Court on March 28, 2008, plaintiff and defendant respectfully submit the following joint status report: 1. Since the filing of the parties' last joint status report, the parties have continued to discuss settlement of plaintiff's claims, except for claims based upon time spent driving between home and work in a Government vehicle. Toward this end, the parties agreed that plaintiff would submit to defendant a statement of the hours of Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") hours he claims to have worked during the times in question (other than home-to-work driving time), and defendant would compute the amount of back pay that would be appropriate based upon this submission. The parties would then discuss whether the amount computed by defendant would be adequate to resolve plaintiff's claim other than for home-to-work driving time. 2. On March 27, 2008, plaintiff's counsel forwarded to defendant statements of FLSA hours for plaintiff in this case and 53 other plaintiffs in various other cases. Defendant has completed computations for five plaintiffs in two of the other cases, and has forwarded these computations to plaintiff's counsel. Defendant anticipates completing computations for the plaintiff in this case by May 16, 2006.

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Respectfully submitted, JEFFREY S. BUCHOLTZ Acting General M. HUGHES Deputy Director SHALOM BRILLIANT Senior Trial Counsel Commercial Litigation Branch Civil Division Department of Justice Attn: Classification Unit 1100 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel: (202) 616-8275 Fax: (202) 305-7643 OF COUNSEL: Michael J. Dierberg William Rayel Trial Attorneys Commercial Litigation Branch Civil Division Department of Justice Attorneys for Defendant
Dated: May 2, 2008

JULES BERNSTEIN Bernstein & Lipsett, P.C. 1920 L Street, N.W. Suite 303 Washington, D.C. 20036 OF COUNSEL: LINDA LIPSETT Tel: (202) 296-1798 Fax: (202) 296-7220

JAMES James & Hoffman, P.C. 1101 17th Street, N.W. Suite 510 Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel: (202) 496-0500 Fax: (202) 496-0555 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Dated: May 2, 2008

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CERTIFICATE OF FILING

I hereby certify that on the 2nd day of May, 2008, a copy of the foregoing "JOINT STATUS REPORT" was filed electronically. I understand that notice of this filing will be sent to all parties by operation of the Court's electronic filing system. Parties may access this filing through the Court's system.

s/Shalom Brilliant