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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 EDWARD A. OLSEN, CSBN 214150 4 Assistant United States Attorney 5 6 7 Attorneys for Defendants 8 9 10 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. C 08-2516 JSW PARTIES' JOINT REQUEST TO BE EXEMPT FROM FORMAL ADR PROCESS 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055 San Francisco, California 94102 Telephone: (415) 436-6915 FAX: (415) 436-6927

12 NARINDERJIT KHINDA, RANJIT SINGH, 13 Plaintiffs, 14 v. 15 MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Secretary, 16 Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; 17 EMILIO T. GONZALEZ, Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration; 18 GERARD HEINAUER, Director, USCIS Nebraska Service Center, 19 Defendants. 20 21

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 24 options provided by the court and private entities, and considered whether this case might benefit 25 from any of them. 26 Here, the parties agree that referral to a formal ADR process will not be beneficial in this

27 immigration case. Given the substance of the action and the lack of any potential middle ground, 28 ADR will only serve to multiply the proceedings and unnecessarily tax court resources. Request for ADR Exemption C 08-2516 JSW 1

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Accordingly, pursuant to ADR L.R. 3-3(c), the parties request the case be removed from the

2 ADR Multi-Option Program and that they be excused from participating in the ADR phone 3 conference and any further formal ADR process. 4 Date: August 29, 2008 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Date: August 29, 2008 12 13 14 15 ORDER Pursuant to stipulation and to ADR L. R. 3-3(c), the parties are hereby removed from the ________/s/__________________ ROBERT B. JOBE KATHERINE M. LEWIS Attorneys for Plaintiffs /s/ EDWARD A. OLSEN1 Assistant United States Attorney Attorneys for Defendants Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO United States Attorney

16 ADR Multi-Option Program and are excused from participating in the ADR phone conference and 17 any further formal ADR process. 18 SO ORDERED. _____________________________ JEFFREY S. WHITE United States District Judge

19 Date: September 3, 2008 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

I, Edward Olsen, hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures indicated by a "conformed" signature (/s/) within this efiled document. 28 Request for ADR Exemption C 08-2516 JSW 2

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