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CECILLIA D. WANG (CSB #187782) LUCAS GUTTENTAG (CSB #90208) AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS PROJECT 39 Drumm Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: (415) 343-0775 Facsimile: (415) 395-0950 Email: [email protected] Attorneys for Plaintiffs-Petitioners *Additional counsel listed on following page

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION ALIA AHMADI, VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, IGOR OVCHINNIKOV, BILJANA PETROVIC, SERGEI SAPOZHNIKOV, EIMAN TAKY and YAN WANG, Case No. 07-CV-3455-WHA Plaintiffs-Petitioners, v. MICHAEL CHERTOFF, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security; ROBERT S. MUELLER III, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; PETER KEISLER, Acting Attorney General of the United States; EMILIO T. GONZALEZ, Director, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services; DAVID STILL, District Director, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, San Francisco District, Defendants-Respondents. STIPULATION OF PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG

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Additional counsel: JULIA HARUMI MASS (CSB #189649) ALAN L. SCHLOSSER (CSB #49957) AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 39 Drumm Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: (415) 621-2493 Facsimile: (415) 255-8437 SIN YEN LING* JOREN LYONS (CSB #203403) ASIAN LAW CAUCUS 939 Market Street, Suite 201 San Francisco, CA 94103 Telephone: (415) 896-1701 Facsimile: (415) 896-1702 *Application for admission pro hac vice forthcoming

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TO THE COURT, ALL PARTIES, AND COUNSEL OF RECORD: The parties hereby stipulate and agree as follows: 1. Defendants are prepared to grant the naturalization applications of Plaintiffs

Biljana Petrovic and Yan Wang and to administer the oath of citizenship, contingent upon Plaintiffs' continued eligibility for naturalization, no later than October 24, 2007. 2. Defendants are prepared to grant the naturalization applications of Plaintiffs

Eiman Taky and Vladimir Mikulicic, contingent on Plaintiffs' continued eligibility for naturalization, no later than November 28, 2007. 3. Under the Ninth Circuit's decision in United States v. Hovsepian, 359 F.3d 1144,

1159-1164 (9th Cir. 2004), during the pendency of litigation under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b), the government agency loses authority to act upon the pending naturalization application and the district court has exclusive jurisdiction. Thus, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("CIS") currently may not grant the naturalization applications of Plaintiffs Mikulicic, Petrovic, Taky and Wang. 4. The individual 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b) claims of Plaintiffs Mikulicic, Petrovic, Taky

and Wang as stated in the First Cause of Action in the First Amended Complaint therefore should be dismissed so that they may be naturalized. 5. In agreeing to this Stipulation, Defendants do not concede that this Court has

jurisdiction over the Second, Third and Fourth Causes of Action in the First Amended Complaint. 6. This Stipulation does not affect the claims of Plaintiffs Mikulicic, Petrovic, Taky

and Wang as to the Second, Third and Fourth Causes of Action in the First Amended Complaint. 7. This Stipulation does not affect the claims of Plaintiffs Ahmadi, Ovchinnikov and

Sapozhnikov as to any of the causes of action in the First Amended Complaint.

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Dated: October 11, 2007

Respectfully submitted, CECILLIA D. WANG LUCAS GUTTENTAG AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS PROJECT 39 Drumm Street San Francisco, CA 94111 JULIA HARUMI MASS ALAN L. SCHLOSSER AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 39 Drumm Street San Francisco, CA 94111 SIN YEN LING JOREN LYONS ASIAN LAW CAUCUS 939 Market Street, Suite 201 San Francisco, CA 94103 Telephone: (415) 896-1701 Facsimile: (415) 896-1702 TODD GALLINGER Of Counsel COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS (CAIR) ­ SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 3000 Scott Boulevard, Suite 212 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Telephone: (408) 986-9874 Facsimile: (408) 986-9875 By: _______/s/________________________ CECILLIA D. WANG Attorneys for Plaintiffs-Petitioners

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SCOTT N. SCHOOLS United States Attorney JOANN W. SWANSON Chief, Civil Division EDWARD A. OLSEN Assistant United States Attorney 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055 San Francisco, CA 94102 PETER D. KEISLER United States Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division ELIZABETH J. STEVENS Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation JEFFREY S. ROBINS Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation P.O. Box 878, Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044 By: _______/s/_________________________ JEFFREY S. ROBINS Attorneys for Defendants

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ORDER Based upon the stipulation of the parties, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the individual claims of Plaintiffs Vladimir Mikulicic, Biljana Petrovic, Eiman Taky and Yan Wang under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b), as set forth in the First Cause of Action in the First Amended Complaint, are hereby DISMISSED pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1), so that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("CIS") may grant their naturalization applications, contingent on Plaintiffs' continued eligibility for naturalization and, where appropriate, administer the oath of citizenship. It is further ORDERED that in the event that CIS does not administer the oath of citizenship to Plaintiffs Petrovic and Wang by October 24, 2007, and Mikulicic and Taky by November 28, 2007, those Plaintiffs may reinstate their claims before this Court by amending the pleadings in this matter. This Order does not affect the claims of Plaintiffs Mikulicic, Petrovic, Taky and Wang as to the Second, Third and Fourth Causes of Action in the First Amended Complaint. Nor does this Order affect the claims of Plaintiffs Ahmadi, Ovchinnikov and Sapozhnikov as to any of the causes of action in the First Amended Complaint. SO ORDERED.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Cecillia D. Wang, declare as follows: I hereby certify that today I electronically filed the foregoing STIPULATION OF

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 In addition, I hereby certify that on this 11th day of October 2007, true and correct copies of the STIPULATION OF PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG were served by U.S. Mail on the following non-ECF filers: Sin Yen Ling Todd Gallinger Asian Law Caucus Council on American-Islamic Relations 939 Market Street, Suite 201 3000 Scott Boulevard, Suite 212 San Francisco, CA 94103 Santa Clara, CA 95054 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the above is true and correct. Jeffrey S. Robins United States Department of Justice Via ECF at [email protected] Edward A. Olsen United States Attorney's Office Elizabeth J. Stevens United States Department of Justice Via ECF at [email protected] Via ECF at [email protected] Julia Harumi Mass American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Via ECF at [email protected] Lucas Guttentag American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project Via ECF at [email protected] PARTIAL DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS OF PLAINTIFFS VLADIMIR MIKULICIC, BILJANA PETROVIC, EIMAN TAKY AND YAN WANG with the Clerk of the Court using the ECF system, which will send notification of such filing to the following email addresses: Alan Lawrence Schlosser American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Joren Lyons Asian Law Caucus Via ECF at [email protected] Via ECF at [email protected]

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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 Dated: October 11, 2007 San Francisco, California _________/s/______________ CECILLIA D. WANG