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1 Caren E. Short Christine P. Sun 2 Joseph J. Levin, Jr. 3 Southern Poverty Law Center 400 Washington Avenue 4 Montgomery, AL 36104 5 (334) 956-8200 (telephone) (334) 956-8481 (facsimile) 6 caren.short@splcenter.org 7 christine.sun@splcenter.org joe.levin@splcenter.org 8 9 Matthew D. Benedetto Randall R. Lee 10 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 11 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite 2100 Los Angeles, CA 90071 12 (213) 443-5300 (telephone) 13 (213) 443-5400 (facsimile) matthew.benedetto@wilmerhale.com 14 randall.lee@wilmerhale.com 15 Daniel S. Noble 16 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP 17 399 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 18 (212) 230-8852 (telephone) 19 (212) 230-8888 (facsimile) daniel.noble@wilmerhale.com 20 21 Eugene Marder Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 22 950 Page Mill Road 23 Palo Alto, CA 94304 (650) 858-6000 (telephone) 24 (650) 858-6100 (facsimile) 25 eugene.marder@wilmerhale.com 26 27 28
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Attorneys for Plaintiffs Tracy Cooper-Harris and Maggie Cooper-Harris

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Western Division ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. 2:12-cv-0887-CBM (AJWx)

TRACEY COOPER-HARRIS and 5 MAGGIE COOPER-HARRIS, 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Defendants. v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., Plaintiffs,

STIPULATION RE: PROPOSED BRIEFING SCHEDULE FOR PREDISCOVERY MOTIONS

Hon. Consuelo B. Marshall

WHEREAS, proposed intervenor-defendant the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives (House) has filed on April 2, 2012, an unopposed motion to intervene for the purpose of defending the

19 constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, Pub. L. No. 104-199, 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 (Defendants), plan to file a response to the Houses unopposed motion to U.S.C. 101 (3), (31); and WHEREAS, both Plaintiffs and Defendants, the United States of America, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. and Secretary Eric K. Shinseki III, 110 Stat. 2419 (1996) (DOMA Section 3), codified at 1 U.S.C. 7, and 38

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WHEREAS, if its motion to intervene is granted, the House intends to file a motion to stay these proceedings pending final resolution on the merits by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Golinski v. Office of

5 Personnel Management, et al., Nos. 12-15388 & 12-15409, and/or Torres6 7 8 WHEREAS, Plaintiffs have indicated that they intend to oppose the Houses Barragan v. Holder, et al., No. 10-55768; and

9 motion to stay proceedings and Defendants have indicated that they will consent to 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 request that the Court rule on the motion to intervene as expeditiously as possible NOW THEREFORE, IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREED THAT: Plaintiffs and Defendants will file their responses to the Houses motion to intervene on or before Tuesday, April 10, 2012. The Plaintiffs will respectfully the Houses request for a stay.

17 after the House files its reply; 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 v. Office of Personnel Management, et al., Nos. 12-15388 & 12-15409 and/or the Houses motion to intervene on or before Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The House will file a motion to stay proceedings pending final resolution on the merits by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Golinski The House will file its reply to the Plaintiffs and Defendants responses to

25 Torres-Barragan v. Holder, et al., No. 10-55768, by the later of Monday, April 23, 26 27 28
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1 2012, or seven (7) calendar days after the Court grants the Houses motion to 2 3 4 Plaintiffs will file their response to the Houses motion to stay on or before intervene.

5 twenty-one (21) calendar days after the date the House files its motion to stay. 6 7 8 to stay on or before fourteen (14) calendar days after the Plaintiffs response is The House will file a reply to the Plaintiffs response to the Houses motion

9 filed. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 to stay, the parties will: (i) meet and confer, in accordance with Rule 26, regarding available date. If the Houses motion to stay is denied in whole or in part, then within fourteen (14) calendar days of the entry of the Courts order on the Houses motion The House will request that the Court hear its motion to stay on the first

17 a discovery and dispositive motion briefing schedule; and (ii) file a Rule 26(f)(2) 18 19 20 21 22 23 /s/ Caren E. Short Caren E. Short 24 Christine P. Sun 25 Joseph J. Levin, Jr. 26 Southern Poverty Law Center 27 400 Washington Avenue 28
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report. If necessary, the parties jointly will seek a scheduling conference with the Court as soon as they can be heard. SEEN AND AGREED TO:

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1 Montgomery, AL 36104 (334) 956-8200 (telephone) 2 (334) 956-8481 (facsimile) 3 caren.short@splcenter.org christine.sun@splcenter.org 4 joe.levin@splcenter.org 5 Matthew D. Benedetto 6 Randall R. Lee 7 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 8 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite 2100 9 Los Angeles, CA 90071 (213) 443-5300 (telephone) 10 (213) 443-5400 (facsimile) 11 matthew.benedetto@wilmerhale.com randall.lee@wilmerhale.com 12 13 Daniel S. Noble 14 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP 15 399 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 16 (212) 230-8852 (telephone) 17 (212) 230-8888 (facsimile) daniel.noble@wilmerhale.com 18 19 Eugene Marder 20 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 21 950 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 22 (650) 858-6000 (telephone) 23 (650) 858-6100 (facsimile) eugene.marder@wilmerhale.com 24 25 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Tracy Cooper-Harris and Maggie Cooper-Harris 26 27 28
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1 /s/Jean Lin (with permission) Jean Lin 2 3 U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division Federal Programs Branch 4 20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 5 Washington, D.C. 20530 (202) 514-3716 (telephone) 6 (202) 616-8470 (facsimile) 7 jean.lin@usdoj.gov Attorneys for Defendants the United States of America, Eric H. Holder, Jr. in his 9 official capacity as Attorney General, and Eric K. Shinseki in his official capacity as Secretary of Veterans Affairs 10 11 /s/ Paul D. Clement (with permission) Paul D. Clement 12 H. Christopher Bartolomucci 13 Conor B. Dugan Nicholas J. Nelson 14 15 BANCROFT PLLC 1919 M Street, N.W., Suite 470 16 Washington, D.C. 20036 17 (202) 234-0090 (telephone) (202) 234-2806 (facsimile) 18 pclement@bancroftpllc.com 19 cbartolomucci@bancroftpllc.com cdugan@bancroftpllc.com 20 nnelson@bancroftpllc.com 21 Of Counsel: 22 Kerry W. Kircher, General Counsel 23 William Pittard, Deputy General Counsel Christine Davenport, Senior Assistant Counsel 24 Kirsten W. Konar, Assistant Counsel 25 Todd B. Tatelman, Assistant Counsel Mary Beth Walker, Assistant Counsel 26 27 28
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1 OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2 219 Cannon House Office Building 3 Washington, D.C. 20515 (202) 225-9700 (telephone) 4 (202) 226-1360 (facsimile) 5 Kerry.Kircher@mail.house.gov William.Pittard@mail.house.gov 6 Christine.Davenport@mail.house.gov 7 Kirsten.Konar@mail.house.gov Todd.Tatelman@mail.house.gov 8 MaryBeth.Walker@mail.house.gov 9 Attorneys for Proposed Intervenor-Defendant the Bipartisan Legal Advisory 10 Group of the U.S. House of Representatives 11 April 4, 2012 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on April 4, 2012, I electronically filed the foregoing Stipulation Re: Proposed Briefing Schedule for Pre-Discovery Motions with the

5 Clerk of the Court for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 /s/Caren E. Short Caren E. Short are registered CM/ECF users and will be served by the appellate CM/ECF system. using the appellate CM/ECF system. I further certify that all parties in this case

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Western Division ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. 2:12-cv-0887-CBM (AJWx)

TRACEY COOPER-HARRIS and 5 MAGGIE COOPER-HARRIS, 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Defendants. v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., Plaintiffs,

[PROPOSED] ORDER

The proposed briefing schedule set forth in the joint Stipulation Re: Proposed Briefing Schedule for Pre-Discovery Motions is hereby GRANTED. It is by the Court this ____ day of _________, 2012, SO ORDERED.

HON. CONSUELO B. MARSHALL UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE