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    STUART F. DELERY

    Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division

    AUGUST FLENTJE

    Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General

    DAVID J. KLINE

    Director, Office of Immigration Litigation

    JEFFREY S. ROBINS

    Assistant Director

    JESI J. CARLSON

    Senior Litigation Counsel

    LANA L. VAHAB (DC Bar No. 97620)

    Trial Attorney

    KATHERINE E.M. GOETTEL (IA Bar No. 23821)

    Trial Attorney

    Department of Justice, Civil DivisionOffice of Immigration Litigation

    District Court Section

    P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station

    Washington, DC 20044

    Tel: (202) 532-4115

    Email: [email protected]

    Attorneys for Defendants

    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

    FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

    WESTERN DIVISION

    MARTIN ARANAS, et al., ) No. 12-cv-1137-CBM (AJWx)

    )

    Plaintiffs, ) DEFENDANTS OPPOSITION TO

    ) PLAINTIFFS EX PARTE

    v. ) APPLICATION TO EXPEDITE

    ) HEARING AND RULING ON THEIRJANET NAPOLITANO, Secretary, ) MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY

    Department of Homeland Security, )

    et al., ) Hon. Andrew J. Wistrich

    Defendants. )

    ______________________________ ) U.S. Magistrate Judge

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    Defendants oppose Plaintiffs Ex Parte Application to Expedite a Hearing or

    ruling on their Motion to Compel Discovery (Ex Parte Application) (See ECF

    Nos. 59 & 60). The urgency Plaintiffs allege in their application is a product of

    their own creation and continuous disregard for the Federal Rules of Civil

    Procedure and Local Rules of this Court. At every turn, Plaintiffs have failed to

    appropriately and expeditiously pursue the discovery they now claim is necessary

    for the consideration of their motions for preliminary injunction and class

    certification (PI and Class Motions) (see ECF Nos. 12 and 13), both of which are

    scheduled for a hearing on November 20, 2012, along with the Bipartisan Legal

    Advisory Groups (BLAG) motion to dismiss (see ECF Nos. 36-37) and

    Defendants Procedural Motion to Dismiss and Partial Motion to Dismiss (see ECF

    No. 46).1

    There are a number of ways Plaintiffs could have handled these issues without

    creating the urgency they now claim and eliminating the need for the instant Ex

    Parte Application. Specifically: (1) Plaintiffs could have sought expedited or early

    discovery by court order when they filed their complaint, Preliminary Injunction or

    Class Certification motions (or at any time shortly thereafter); (2) Plaintiffs could

    have sought a court order after Defendants formally objected to their attempt to

    propound discovery before discovery was permitted under the Federal Rules of

    Civil Procedure, absent a court order; or (3) Plaintiffs could have filed their Motion

    to Compel a mere two days earlier, thereby securing a November 5, 2012 hearing

    date. Plaintiffs did none of these things and have continued to litigate this case as

    if the rules do not apply to them. Such inaction by Plaintiffs does not warrant the

    Courts expedited consideration of their motion to compel discovery. This Courtshould deny Plaintiffs request to expedite the November 19, 2012 hearing

    1 As Defendants stated in their portion of the Joint Stipulation attached to Plaintiffs Motion to

    Compel Discovery, discovery in this case should be stayed in its entirety until the Court resolves

    the pending dispositive motions, in addition to the other arguments concerning the need fordiscovery set forth later in this response and in the Joint Stipulation (see ECF 59-1 at 7-20).

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    regarding Plaintiffs Motion to Compel, and otherwise deny Plaintiffs request for

    expedited review of their Motion to Compel Discovery. In the alternative, to the

    extent this Court deems discovery to be appropriate at all, this Court should stay

    discovery until this Court has ruled on the pending dispositive motions.

    I. Because Plaintiffs Urgency Is a Product of Their Own Creation,They Are Not Entitled to Expedited Discovery or Expedited

    Consideration of Their Motion to Compel.

    Plaintiffs alleged need for ex parte relief and an order compressing the

    normal schedule for a motion to compel is a product of their own creation.

    Plaintiffs contend that the expedited schedule is warranted because they need

    discovery prior to the Courts November 20, 2012 hearing on Plaintiffs

    Preliminary Injunction and Class Motions. Currently, the hearing on Plaintiffs

    Motion to Compel is scheduled for the day before that hearing, on November 19,

    2012. Plaintiffs not only waited to propound discovery, but when they did, they

    did not do so at the proper time under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure nor did

    they seek a Court order to proceed on an expedited time frame until they were up

    against the hearing date on their motions. Such actions do not, and should not,

    require the Court to expedite the Motion to Compel hearing or otherwise expedite

    its consideration of Plaintiffs Motion to Compel.

    Plaintiffs delays in this case are numerous. First, Plaintiffs did not file their

    motion for preliminary injunction until eight months after Plaintiff Jane DeLeons

    I-601 waiver was denied. Plaintiffs filed their Complaint on July 12, 2012. It was

    not until August 23, 2012, that Plaintiffs filed their Preliminary Injunction and

    Class Motions. At that time, they did not seek any discovery, in fact, they noted

    the motions for a September 24, 2012 hearing, which was only about a month after

    filing the motions, thereby signaling that the motions could be decided without

    discovery.

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    Plaintiffs maintain that the compressed briefing schedule is necessary

    because they were not alerted of the need for discovery until Defendants filed their

    oppositions to Plaintiffs motions. That statement cannot be true. In their Ex Parte

    Application, Plaintiffs erroneously stated that Defendants filed their oppositions to

    Plaintiffs Preliminary Injunction and Class Motions on September 9, 2012, and

    that those oppositions include[d] factual claims on which plaintiffs have sought

    relevant discovery. (ECF No. 60 at 2.) Plaintiffs claimed that in response to the

    PI and Class Oppositions, they served defendants with a Notice of Deposition

    under Rule 30(b)(6) the next day. Those representations are not true. While

    Plaintiffs emailed a Notice of Deposition on September 10, 2012, this was done

    four days before Defendants filed their Preliminary Injunction and Class

    Oppositions on September 14, 2012. (See ECF No. 35, 39.) Accordingly,

    Plaintiffs must have determined that discovery was needed prior to reviewing any

    responses to its Class and Preliminary Injunction motions which had not even

    been filed. Accordingly, Plaintiffs representation that their September 10, 2012

    Notice of Deposition was in response to Defendants Oppositions should be

    disregarded entirely. Plaintiffs delay in coming to the realization that they desired

    discovery should not result in substantial prejudice to Defendants and unnecessary

    expedition by this Court.

    Moreover, even after deciding that they wanted discovery, Plaintiffs did not

    act reasonably or promptly to obtain such discovery in accordance with the Federal

    Rules of Civil Procedure. After receiving Plaintiffs deposition notice, counsel for

    Defendants informed counsel for Plaintiffs by email that Defendants would not

    engage in discovery at that time. (Ex. A.) Defendants followed that with a letteron September 24, 2012, to Plaintiffs counsel, explaining their position regarding

    Plaintiffs deposition notice in further detail. (Ex. B.) Defendants noted that the

    parties had not yet conferred as required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f),

    and that, under Rule 26(d)(1), Plaintiffs could not seek discovery without a

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    stipulation or Court Order. Defendants made clear that they did not stipulate to

    early discovery. The next day, instead of seeking a Court Order allowing

    expedited or early discovery, Plaintiffs emailed Defendants written discovery

    requests,2 including requests for admission, production of documents, and

    interrogatories. (Ex. C.)

    On September 27, 2012, counsel for Defendants reiterated to counsel for

    Plaintiffs by telephone that, because the parties had not yet conferred pursuant to

    Rule 26(f) and Plaintiffs had not obtained a court order, discovery was premature

    and that Defendants were not in a position to engage in a formal meet and confer

    concerning such issues that time. Defendants noted, however, that they were

    amenable to scheduling a Rule 26(f) conference. But on September 28, 2012,

    instead of seeking a court order or proposing a Rule 26(f) conference, Plaintiffs

    counsel sent Defendants counsel a Proposed Stipulation Regarding Discovery

    Dispute, invoking the process set forth in Local Rule 37-1. (Ex. D.) In an

    accompanying letter, Plaintiffs request[ed] to confer with defendants in a good

    faith effort to eliminate or narrow the parties dispute regarding discovery and to

    finalize a joint stipulation pursuant to Local Rule 37-2. (Id.) Plaintiffs also noted

    the parties agreed position that under Rule 30(a)(2), plaintiffs may seek leave to

    conduct early discovery. (Id.) Again, however, Plaintiffs opted not to seek a

    Court Order allowing expedited discovery at that time.

    On October 2, 2012, Defendants informed Plaintiffs via letter that, because

    the parties still had not conferred under Rule 26(f) and Plaintiffs had not obtained a

    court order, both discovery and a motion to compel remained inappropriate. (Ex.

    2At that time, the parties had not agreed to electronic service. Plaintiffs re-served their

    discovery requests on October 5, 2012, after the parties agreed to service by email during their

    Rule 26(f) conference. (Ex. I.) Thus, Plaintiffs Motion to Compel concerning written discovery

    is premature because the time has not run for Defendants to respond to Plaintiffs writtendiscovery requests, which, if this Court determines are permitted, would not be due until

    November 5, 2012 at the earliest.

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    E.) Despite Plaintiffs assertion to the contrary in their Ex Parte Application,

    nothing in Defendants October 2 letter references the Administrative Procedure

    Act (APA) as Defendants sole basis for objecting to discovery.3

    Defendants

    suggested in their letter that the parties schedule a prompt Rule 26(f) conference,

    and proposed dates and times for such a conference. On October 3, 2012,

    Plaintiffs sent a revised Proposed Stipulation Regarding Discovery Dispute to

    Defendants. (Ex. F.)

    On October 5, 2012, Plaintiffs, Defendants, and BLAG engaged in a Rule

    26(f) conference via telephone. During that call, the parties also conducted a

    formal meet-and-confer regarding the discovery dispute.4

    Defendants indicated

    that they would respond with their portion of the joint stipulation within seven

    days, in accordance with Local Rule 37-2. Plaintiffs expressed their frustration

    with the timeline for submission (as set forth in the rules) and likely resolution of

    the Joint Stipulation and indicated they would file an Ex Parte Application instead.

    The next week, Plaintiffs reversed course, deciding not to file an Ex Parte

    Application and deciding to properly engage in the Motion to Compel Discovery

    process outlined in Local Rule 37. The parties complied with Local Rule 37-2 and

    prepared a joint stipulation, which Plaintiffs filed as an attachment to their Motion

    to Compel on October 17, 2012. (See ECF No. 59-1.) The same day that

    Plaintiffs filed their Motion to Compel, Plaintiffs filed the instant Ex Parte

    Application. (ECF No. 60.)

    3 Defendants merely preserved their prior objection contained in their September 24, 2012 letter,

    which included an objection based on the applicability of the APA.

    4This was the only formal meet-and-confer conference regarding the present discovery dispute.

    Plaintiffs assertion that they conducted several meet and confers is not accurate. While the

    parties engaged in conversations and exchanged correspondence concerning these issues, theonly formal meet and confer was on October 5, 2012. (Ex Parte App. at 3, ECF No. 60.)

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    Yet again, Plaintiffs own actions created their perceived need for urgency at

    this time. Plaintiffs could have avoided the need to expedite their Motion to

    Compel by merely filing the motion two days earlier, on October 15, 2012, as they

    originally intended.5 If they had filed the Motion to Compel on October 15, 2012,

    Plaintiffs could have noticed the hearing for November 5, 2012, more than two

    weeks before the hearing on the Preliminary Injunction and Class Motions,

    eliminating the need for the Court to expedite the hearing date or to rush its

    decision. Instead, Plaintiffs filed the motion on October 17, 2012, which made the

    next available motion day November 19, 2012, one day before the Preliminary

    Injunction and Class motions hearing. Notably, Defendants were prepared to sign-

    off on the stipulation on October 15, 2012 but Plaintiffs failed to deliver the final

    motion packet to Defendants for review until October 16, 2012. (See Ex. G, Email

    Exchange Between Defendants Counsel and Plaintiffs Counsel.) Once again,

    Plaintiffs own actions have created the alleged exigency.

    II. If Plaintiffs Discovery Was Essential to Their PreliminaryInjunction and Class Certification Motions, They Should Have

    Sought Expedited Discovery Early in the Case.

    Plaintiffs crisis is self-created. If Plaintiffs truly believed that discovery is

    needed to support their motions, they should have filed a motion for expedited or

    early discovery at the same time they filed their Preliminary Injunction and Class

    Motions nearly two months ago, see ECF Nos. 12-13 (filed August 23, 2012).

    Plaintiffs did not do so. Instead, Plaintiffs sought to invoke the local rules

    governing discovery disputes. Plaintiffs should not be exempt from the rules that

    they have invoked. Because the compressed schedule that Plaintiffs seek is a

    product of their own failure to properly seek the opening of discovery when they

    should have, this Court should deny Plaintiffs ex parte relief.

    5 Defendants provided Plaintiffs with their portion of the Joint Stipulation on October 12, 2012,

    but asked to see the final package (including the Notice of Motion) prior to filing.

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    Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(d) provides an expedited discovery

    mechanism that Plaintiffs could have invoked upon a showing of good cause.

    See, e.g.,Apple Inc. v. Samsung Elecs. Co., 768 F. Supp. 2d 1040, 1043 (N.D. Cal.

    2011) (noting the grant of one partys request for expedited discovery, while

    denying the request of the other party). Plaintiffs did not do so. Under this

    mechanism, Plaintiffs could have sought a Court Order as soon as they filed their

    complaint on July 12, 2012, even before filing their Preliminary Injunction Motion.

    Such expedited discovery could have begun before the meet and confer

    requirement outlined in Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f). While expedited discovery would

    not have condensed the parties normal response times allowed for discovery

    requests under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, it would have allowed

    discovery to begin much earlier in the litigation process, and would have provided

    an appropriate amount of time in which to litigate such issues.

    III. Plaintiffs Have Improperly Used The Ex Parte Process.Not only is Plaintiffs ex parte application to expedite their motion to

    compel unwarranted, but their use of the ex parte process is inappropriate. This

    Court has previously made clear that ex parte relief is not justified unless the

    moving party is without fault in creating the crisis that requires ex parte relief, or

    that the crisis occurred as a result of excusable neglect. Mission Power Engg Co.

    v. Contl Cas. Co., 883 F. Supp. 488, 492 (C.D. Cal. 1995). Indeed, [e]x parte

    applications are not intended to save the day for parties who have failed to present

    requests when they should have. Id. at 493 (quotations omitted). Because

    Plaintiffs created their own emergency, they are not allowed to pass that

    emergency on to the Court and opposing parties.Furthermore, Plaintiffs have violated their obligations under Local Rule 7-

    19.1. Under that rule, Plaintiffs must advise the other parties about the substance

    of the ex parte application and ascertain the parties position on the application.

    C.D. Cal. L.R. 7-19.1. The ex parte applicant must then accurately articulate the

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    opposing parties position on the ex parte motion. Id. For purpose of the instant

    Ex Parte Application, Plaintiffs made inaccurate representations regarding

    Defendants position. On October 16, 2012, counsel for Plaintiffs indicated their

    intent to file an ex parte application. In response, counsel for Defendants inquired

    about the date on which Plaintiffs would seek to move the November 19, 2012

    hearing and when Plaintiffs intended to file such an application. (See Ex. H.)

    Counsel for Defendants did not receive a response to that email. Instead,

    Plaintiffs represented that Defendants opposed the instant Ex Parte Application.

    While Defendants ultimately oppose the relief Plaintiffs seek, it is worth noting

    that Plaintiffs failed to accurately depict Defendants position before confirming

    the position, as is required pursuant to Local Rule 7-19.1.6

    IV. No Discovery is Proper at this Time and Should be Stayed Pendingthe Outcome of the Dispositive Motions.

    As laid out in great detail in Defendants Portion of the Stipulation filed in

    conjunction with Plaintiffs Motion to Compel Discovery (ECF 59-1, at 7-20),

    Discovery is not proper and should be stayed. In support of this position

    Defendants have offered numerous reasons, not the least of which is the fact that

    there currently are pending two dispositive motions to dismiss (Defendants and

    BLAGs) which are based on purely legal arguments and have the potential to

    dispose of the entire case. (See ECF 59-1 at 12-14.) In the Joint Stipulation,

    Defendants also explained that Plaintiffs Motion to Compel with regard to any

    written discovery requests is entirely premature. While Defendants believe

    6Local Rules 7-19.1 states:

    It shall be the duty of the attorney so applying [for an ex parte application] (a) tomake reasonable, good faith efforts orally to advise counsel for all other parties, if

    known, of the date and substance of the proposed ex parte application and (b) to

    advise the Court in writing and under oath of efforts to contact other counsel andwhether any other counsel, after such advice, opposes the application.

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    discovery should be stayed in its entirety, to the extent any deadline currently

    applies to Plaintiffs written discovery requests, Defendants construe such written

    responses/objections to be due no earlier than November 5, 2012 (thirty days after

    Plaintiffs re-served the requests and the 26(f) conference took place). Now

    Plaintiffs are asking this Court to expedite its decision on their already premature

    motion to compel.

    Defendants have raised numerous arguments showing why discovery is

    inappropriate, and showing why if the Court deems it to be appropriate at all, it is

    not appropriate on a truncated schedule. These arguments are spelled out between

    pages 7 and 20 of the Joint Stipulation re: Discovery Disputes (ECF 59-1) andinclude:

    Defendants and BLAGs pending motions to dismiss are based onpurely legal arguments and have the potential to dispose of the entire

    litigation. As such, they should be decided before Defendants are

    ordered to produce information pertaining to a nationwide class of

    individuals on a truncated schedule. (ECF 59-1, at pp. 12-14)

    Discovery is not needed (nor have Plaintiffs sought it) for theresolution of the merits of their claims. Indeed, the merits of

    Plaintiffs claims i.e., that Section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional

    are questions of law for which there are no issues of fact to be elicited

    through discovery. (ECF 59-1, at pp. 14-15)

    Discovery is not needed to resolve Plaintiffs preliminary injunctionmotion because, in opposing it, Defendants assumed the facts as laid

    out by Plaintiffs in the preliminary injunction motion and relied only

    legal argument (as opposed to facts) in their Opposition to the Motion

    for a Preliminary Injunction. (ECF 59-1, at pp. 12-14)

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    Discovery is not warranted regarding the class certification prior tothe November 20, 2012 hearing because nationwide class-wide

    discovery on an extremely compressed timetable would be highly

    burdensome and unfair to Defendants. (ECF 59-1, at 17-20)

    Plaintiffs delay in seeking the discovery they now claim is needed toresolve their motions for preliminary judgment and class certification

    underscores the fact that no such need exists. (ECF 59-1 at 12-20)

    Defendants welcome the opportunity to submit further briefing on the issue

    as the Court sees fit, as well as the opportunity explain their position at oral

    argument currently set for November 19, 2012.

    DATED: October 18, 2012 Respectfully submitted,

    STUART F. DELERY

    Acting Assistant Attorney General

    Civil Division

    AUGUST E. FLENTJE

    Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General

    DAVID J. KLINE

    Director

    Office of Immigration Litigation

    JESI J. CARLSON

    Senior Litigation Counsel

    s/ Lana L. Vahab

    LANA L. VAHAB

    DC Bar No. 976203Trial Attorney

    Department of Justice, Civil Division

    Office of Immigration Litigation

    District Court Section

    P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station

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    Washington, DC 20044

    Tel: (202) 532-4067

    Fax: (202) 305-7000

    Email: [email protected]

    s/ Katherine E.M. GoettelKATHERINE E.M. GOETTEL

    IA Bar No. 23821

    Trial Attorney

    Department of Justice, Civil Division

    Office of Immigration Litigation

    District Court Section

    P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station

    Washington, DC 20044

    Tel: (202) 532-4115Fax: (202) 305-7000

    Email: [email protected]

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