Free ADR Certification (ADR L.R. 3-5 b)of discussion of ADR options - District Court of California - California

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1 JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO, CSBN 44332 United States Attorney 2 JOANN M. SWANSON, CSBN 88143 Assistant United States Attorney 3 Chief, Civil Division MELANIE L. PROCTOR, CSBN 228971 4 Assistant United States Attorney 5 6 7 Attorneys for Defendants 8 9 10 11 12 RAJVINDER SINGH, 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Secretary of ) Homeland Security; EMILIO T. GONZALES, ) Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ) Services; ROSEMARY MELVILLE, District ) Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ) Services; FRANCIS D. SICILIANO, Officer in ) Charge of the San Jose Office of the U.S. ) Citizenship and Immigration Services, ) ) Defendants. ) ) No. C 07-4772 JW 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055 San Francisco, California 94102 Telephone: (415) 436-6730 FAX: (415) 436-6927

JOINT REQUEST FOR EXEMPTION FROM THE FORMAL ADR PROCESS; PROPOSED ORDER

Each of the undersigned certifies that he or she has read either the handbook entitled "Dispute

22 Resolution Procedures in the Northern District of California," or the specified portions of the ADR 23 Unit's Internet site , discussed the available dispute resolution options 24 provided by the court and private entities, and considered whether this case might benefit from any of 25 them. 26 Here, the parties agree that referral to a formal ADR process will not be beneficial because this

27 mandamus action is limited to Plaintiff's request that this Court adjudicate the application for 28 naturalization. Given the substance of the action and the lack of any potential middle ground, ADR
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1 will only serve to multiply the proceedings and unnecessarily tax court resources.

Accordingly,

2 pursuant to ADR L.R. 3-3(c), the parties request the case be removed from the ADR Multi-Option 3 Program and that they be excused from participating in the ADR phone conference and any further 4 formal ADR process. 5 Dated: January 14, 2008 6 7 8 9 10 11 Dated: January 14, 2008 12 13 14 15 16 17 Date: 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 I, Melanie L. Proctor, hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures indicated by a "conformed" signature (/S/) within this efiled document.
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Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO United States Attorney /s/ MELANIE L. PROCTOR1 Assistant United States Attorney Attorneys for Defendants

/s/ KANWAL M. SINGH Attorney for Plaintiff ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

JAMES WARE United States District Judge

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