It is with great sorrow that the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences shares that James Taylor, Ralph S. O’Connor Professor of Biology and Professor of Computer Science, died on Thursday, April 2, 2020. He was 40.
Professor Taylor was a trailblazer in computational biology and genomics research. He had an enormous impact as a scientist, teacher, and colleague, and his loss is devastating to many – both here in our Hopkins community and around the globe.
As one of the original developers of the Galaxy platform for data analysis, Professor Taylor and his lab group focused on extending the Galaxy platform as well as on understanding genomic and epigenomic regulation of gene transcription through integrated analysis of functional genomic data. The ultimate goal is to achieve a complete understanding of the structure and function of genomes.
The Galaxy platform serves as software for the entire genomics community worldwide, giving a powerful boost to researchers’ ability to process data and make groundbreaking connections across organisms. But Professor Taylor was also involved with many other projects; for example, he developed a strategy to support the health of the Chesapeake Bay by detecting microorganisms in the Baltimore Harbor and monitoring their levels continuously using newly developed, portable, and rapid DNA sequencing technologies.
Vince Hilser, chair of the biology department, describes Professor Taylor as a bedrock of the department. “He came in 2014, and it was transformational. He was this catalyst for change, with a huge positive impact.” His presence in the department opened up many areas for research, as he was able to help other faculty members uncover new insights by revealing similarities between the proteins they were studying and those in other organisms.
What Professor Taylor did for the department, he also did for the broader research community. In addition to his crucial involvement with Galaxy, he collaborated broadly, and was cited with great frequency.
A familiar figure on the Homewood campus, riding his skateboard, Professor Taylor was a beloved teacher and mentor who treated his students as equals. He approached his work with passion and energy, and was a friend and colleague to many in our community, who share in mourning his loss deeply.
Biology Assistant Professor Rajiv McCoy says he counted Professor Taylor as a mentor and friend. “He blazed a trail for computational research within the Department of Biology and is one of the main reasons that I came to Hopkins. James was a selfless advocate for trainees and junior faculty, working tirelessly in the background on our behalf. James was also an outspoken proponent of reproducibility in computational research. His work to highlight this issue and develop tools for addressing it has been invaluable to the scientific community. I am shocked and heartbroken by this loss and its impact on his family, friends, and colleagues.”
John Kim, associate professor in Biology, shared adjoining offices and labs with Professor Taylor in the UTL building. He wrote, “For the past five years, we had grown very close as colleagues with common scientific interests but more importantly, as friends. He was such a passionate advocate for collaborative research and his influence went well beyond the university to the broader scientific community. His is an incalculable loss. James was soft-spoken, kind, and compassionate. His office door was always wide open, inviting anyone to come in to talk. He furnished it sparsely, with just a small round table in the middle and speakers by the windows playing a broad and eclectic selection of music while he worked on his laptop. It was an open, inviting space where I and many others would stop in to talk about science or just to say hello. He was a great listener, so thoughtful and generous with his time. We have lost a brilliant scientist and a great friend to the many lives he touched and made better.”
Michael Schatz, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology, spoke of Professor Taylor’s far-reaching scientific and personal impact. “James was an exceptional scientist, colleague, mentor, and community builder,” Professor Schatz wrote. “His life’s pursuit was to understand how genomic information is used in normal development and how changes in the genome can dysregulate this process in disease. Further, through co-leading the Galaxy project and the Anvil project, a major thrust of James’ career has been to support the work of other scientists, especially to empower those with limited resources. His impact is immeasurable, with thousands of scientists that have benefited from his leadership and contributions. On a personal level, James was always kind, friendly, and generous, and we will miss him dearly.”
Professor Taylor earned his BS in computer science from the University of Vermont in 2000, and his PhD in computer science in 2006 from Penn State University, where he was involved in several vertebrate genome projects and the ENCODE project. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins, he was an associate professor in the departments of biology and mathematics and computer science at Emory University from 2008 until 2013. At Hopkins, he also held an appointment in the Whiting School’s Department of Computer Science.
He was a member of the Science Gateways Institute Steering Committee, and had been a member of the National Center for Genome Analysis Scientific Advisory Board from 2014 to 2016; a member of the iPlant Scientific Advisory Board member from 2013 to 2016; a member of the XSEDE Project User Advisory Committee from 2012 to 2014; and co-chair of the International Arabadopsis Informatics Consortium: Engineering, Architecture and Infrastructure Working Group in 2011.
Professor Taylor is survived by his wife, Meredith Greif, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. We send our deepest condolences to her as well as to his colleagues in the Department of Biology and far beyond.
It always starts with the children because no one cares.
I would like the public to honor the beauty of heraldry, where The Detroit Free Press is the keeper of the timeless immemorials, the great repository of the public square, for those who wish preserve their claims to challenge the right to bear arms, by bearing witness, in public testimony, of the founding of this great nation.
All children should read this story and watch this video, so when they grow up, they can make sure this never happens again.
That is why I tell tales, for no one else will.
This is but one example of the failed child welfare system, in the life of a girl growing up in Michigan, where, I pray, the Free Press will continue with this series, to go into the Public Private Partnerships and identify "The Elected Ones" whose campaigns were funded by the foreign interests who planned for the collapse of a civil society, and it all started in Michigan.
This is what you call modern day human trafficking because this should never have ever been allowed to happen under a duly elected government.
Consider this the first in my new series on Socioeconomic Tiny Human Lab Rat Experiments, or as I enjoy to so adoringly call it stealin' the children, land and votes because it was all very well planned and I watched them plan it.
That is why I like to get into the Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare NGO trust funds and the Social Impact Bond Program predictive modeling crap.
She was prostituting, pregnant, doing drugs by 14. Now, Taylor girl fights to save her own life.
MATURE CONTENT WARNING: This story explores drug abuse, sexual abuse and prostitution; it is not suitable for children.
Sitting on plastic chairs arranged in a circle at the edge of the woodsy yard, the girls were barely into their meeting when the 16-year-old from Taylor with welts and scars up and down her arm started to fidget.
It's not the first time the Girl from Taylor has been here, at this camp where teenagers wear uniforms and can't talk without permission. It's not the first time she's gone to bed knowing a minder is sitting across the half-lit dormitory style room, watching her and the others sleep. Or the first time she's pretended not to be upset that her mother seldom visits.
Addicted teen looks for path to survival in tiny Michigan town
It's interesting the way people picture drug addicts, almost always conjuring an image of an adult. Hardly anyone ever thinks of kids.
MANDI WRIGHT, DETROIT FREE PRESS
The kids here do that a lot, put on a tough face; it's easier than dealing with disappointment. They've had plenty of that in their lives so far. Caused plenty of it, too. And yet, deep down, most of them have a certain childlike quality they've yet to outgrow. How else do you explain that a girl who became a prostitute at 14 to pay for drugs, still gets excited at the thought of, maybe, someday, going to prom?
Vassar, Michigan
Part juvenile detention center, part residential drug rehab, the goal here at the Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center in Vassar — a tiny farm town about two hours north of Detroit — is to save young people ages 12-17 by getting them off weed and opioid pills before they graduate to heroin and end up dead.
It's a race against time.
Because that's the trajectory these days: weed, pills, heroin, which is almost certainly laced with fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid responsible for most of the overdose deaths in Michigan and across the nation. And because 18- to 25-year-olds are more likely than anyone else to use heroin.
The Girl from Taylor
I've done enough stuff to put 50-year-olds in the dirt.
The Girl from Taylor — one of about 40 teens here over the summer — is ahead of schedule on that front. She's already used heroin. "I've done enough stuff to put 50-year-olds in the dirt," she said. Once, she mixed heroin with pills and Molly, also known as the party drug Ecstasy, and overdosed, waking up in the hospital with no idea where she was or what had happened. For a few minutes, she thought she might be dead.
She was more engaged in the group therapy circle now, sharing a bit of her background with the other girls: "Once you hear ... like, something so much from one person, you begin to believe it. ... 'You're ugly. You're worthless,' " she said, sounding breathless, from upset or asthma or maybe both.
"I was a kid ...
"He was supposed to be a father."
Her voice disappeared into the rustle of leaves and chatter of branches brought on by a strong, late summer wind. A storm was coming.
Soon she and the other girls — there were eight in the group that day — would be in their cabin, waiting for dinner, maybe engaging in small talk about home and family and life on the outside or, as they call it, "in the community." Nobody wants to be here; they've been sent over by juvenile court judges for violating probation. They're here to serve their sentence — usually between 6 and 9 months — and to get used to living without drugs.
To do that, though, they need to confront the incredible forces, the dysfunction, the hate, the lies and the awful, awful truths that led them to drugs. The Girl from Taylor didn't do that the first time she was here. She completed her sentence, which ran from September 2017 to June 2018. Then she went home to her mother's house, relapsed, returned for two weeks of respite care in December, went home, relapsed again, ran away, got caught and was locked up for a time in the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility in Detroit before being sent back to Vassar in February 2019.
She wants things to be different this time.
But if there's one thing circumstances have taught her, it's that wanting something to happen doesn't mean it will.
Age and gender conspire to addict
It's interesting the way people picture drug addicts, almost always conjuring an image of an adult, often a man, stumbling along the street or rushing furtively into a trap house or passed out under a freeway viaduct with a needle in his arm. Hardly anyone ever thinks of kids. Even kids don't think of their peers, let alone themselves, as addicts. "They hold that as a kind of denial," said James Tumidanski, who spent more than a decade working as a therapist at the Vassar center. They think, " 'I'm too young to be an addict.' "
The Girl From Taylor sits in a chair by her bed Thursday, July 25, 2019, she along with other clients were court ordered to Wolverine Growth and Recovery Services in Vassar, a program designed to intervene with alcohol, drug and behavioral issues.
And yet, adolescents — awkward from growth spurts, insecure about fitting in and finding their place, sensitive, impatient for independence — are wired for addiction.
The teenage brain is a work in progress. Doctors compare it to a car without brakes because the part of the brain that processes emotions and feelings of pain and registers the satisfaction of feeling good is fully developed. But the portion that regulates those emotions, that puts them into perspective and makes people stop and think before acting — the prefrontal cortex — is not. It doesn't mature until about age 25.
Because of that, teenagers and young adults are more likely to be impacted by stress, anxiety, depression and peer pressure. They're also more likely to participate in risky behavior — including using drugs to quiet doubts, soothe feelings and numb emotional pain. Last year, according to a study by the federal government, 38.7% of the nation's 18- to 25-year-olds used illicit drugs, compared with 16.7% of people age 26 and over.
Assault, domestic violence, abuse and rape increase the likelihood a teenager will seek out drugs. "The girls just have so much trauma." said Rebecca Lutz, a therapist at Vassar. And "it's not usually just one incident. It's usually a pattern."
Neglected by her meth-addled father, raped repeatedly by another relative, whipped on the back of her legs with a belt swung by her drug-using stepmother and forced to kneel on uncooked grits and rice spread over the floor, a 17-year-old girl from Livonia put it this way: On drugs, "I was on the top of the world, like nobody could take anything from me." Otherwise, "I would try to commit suicide. I was always really depressed because of stuff that happened to me."
There's a lot of that here: depression, anxiety, anger management problems and other mental health issues. Many of the girls acknowledge past suicide attempts and episodes of self-harm. The scars on the Girl from Taylor's arm — she counts 33 — are from the time she dug into her flesh with the jagged stem of a broken wine glass. She wanted to kill herself. “I felt like there was nothing for me," she explained. Even at the camp, girls sometimes sneak pencils into the bathroom so they can cut themselves with the sharp point. Or they use a paper clip. Or their fingernails. Mostly, they'll use whatever they can find, even the bottom corner of a toothpaste tube.
Drug addiction and mental illness are intertwined. One study of teenagers in drug treatment found that more than 60% had a co-occurring mental illness; other experts believe the figure is closer to 75%. And at no time is that connection more apparent than just before bedtime when a member of the Vassar staff pushes the medical cart into the girls' dormitory cabin. One at a time, the girls approach the cart and lean their heads back and open their mouths so the attendant can drop in the pills; they look like baby birds being fed by their mother. (They are not allowed to touch the medication.) The girls then take a sip of water, swallow and open their mouths again to show that they aren't hiding anything under their tongue or inside their cheeks.
"Trazodone, Abilify, Trileptal, Zoloft ... " the Livonia girl said, naming the mood-stabilizing medications she takes every day. "I have a personality disorder, it's where my moods switch up really quick and I can be one person one day and I will be another person the next. ... I do have bipolar issues. I have anger, anxiety, depression ..." She sighed. "I have so much."
The Girl from Taylor, who started drinking when she was 10.
My mom's an addict, my dad's an addict, I'm an addict.
The earlier users start drugs, the more likely, and more quickly, they are to become addicts. A family history of drug use or addiction — there's a great deal of that in the families of the young people here — also plays a role. Experts say genetics count for 40%-60% of a person's addiction risk. Gender has a part in this, too: research suggests females become addicted faster than males.
"My mom's an addict, my dad's an addict, I'm an addict," said the Girl from Taylor, who started drinking when she was 10. Her oldest sister, who is living somewhere on the streets, is an addict. She said she will rip off her 18-year-old sister's toenails if she discovers that she, too, is using drugs. "She's seen what I had to go through and what Mom had to go through and my dad had to go through. If she would make that course of action, I would be so upset."
Not homey, but home for now
Not homey, but home for now
Dinner was over and the Girl from Taylor, back in her dormitory cabin for the night, slipped off her white New Balance sneakers and placed them on a shelf in the tall cabinet where they'd be locked up until morning. The camp confiscates everyone's shoes at night — the kids are allowed to wear slide-on rubber sandals, similar to those worn in locker room showers and some jails, until they get them back. The protocol, the camp staff says, is to deter anyone from escaping into the darkness of night. It's more difficult to run in slide-ons.
Uniform issued New Balance tennis shoes get locked up at night so clients are less likely to run during the night at the Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center in Vassar Monday, August 12, 2019.
Uniform issued New Balance tennis shoes get locked up at night so clients are less likely to run during the night at the Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center in Vassar Monday, August 12, 2019.
MANDI WRIGHT, DETROIT FREE PRESS
Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center is situated on several woodsy lots at the bottom of a dead-end road. The campus includes a half dozen or so unassuming single story-buildings that house dormitories, classrooms, a cafeteria and offices. A gymnasium sits across a parking lot. In some ways, the setting feels like Up North, with perennials lining the sidewalks, tamarack trees scattered across the grounds and at least a gentle breeze even in the dead of summer. It's not unusual to see deer darting through the woods at the edge of the camp, their white tails bobbing up and down as they leap over brush.
The idea is to get the kids, most of whom come from metro Detroit, away from their home environments, their friends and families and anyone or anything else that might be a distraction to their rehab — the pot shop and liquor store down the road and around the corner, closer to downtown Vassar, population slightly more than 2,500, notwithstanding.
About 75% of the kids at the facility —which is run by Wolverine Human Services, the largest foster care, adoption and independent living agency in Michigan — are boys. They and the girls are not allowed any contact. Each group has its own classrooms, its own cafeteria times, its own therapy schedules — the boys tend to be less likely to open up and also less likely to have been victims of extreme trauma. And, of course, they have their own dormitory cabins.
The institutional beige paneled walls of the girls cabin are decorated with motivational posters promoting recovery, the 12 steps from Alcoholics Anonymous and a reminder that sexual abuse is never OK. Raincoats hang on pegs by the door. Twin beds on metal frames, with headboards against the walls, are arranged in the shape of a block U and covered with identical blue bedspreads.
Staff members searched the cabin the first part of August after getting a tip one of the girls was holding notes from a boy. They unmade beds, flipped mattresses, looked everywhere but didn't find any notes or anything actionable. The girls were off-kilter the rest of the day. No one likes being wrongly accused, especially girls trying to do the right thing after a long time of doing wrong.
Wake-up is at 6 a.m., 7 a.m. on weekends. The girls wash, make their beds and walk across the courtyard to breakfast. They're allowed 10 minutes for each meal. They eat in silence; they aren't allowed to talk without permission at the camp and there's no time for conversation during meals. A minder keeps track of the time.
"Six minute napkin check!" the minder yelled during lunch one day. The girls showed her their napkins.
"Three minutes!" she yelled, as the clock wound down.
"Fifteen seconds, last drink!"
When they were done, the girls scraped their plates over a trash can, lined up an arm's length apart from each other and walked out of the cafeteria building single file, with their hands behind their backs as if they were wearing handcuffs. Camp staff says the posture is a security measure.
There's school five days a week from about 8 a.m. to about 2:20 p.m. The teenagers do their lessons — chemistry, history, English and the rest — on computers; the camp has an online classroom arrangement with the local intermediate school district. A teacher supervises and is available for questions.
For many of the girls, it's the first time they've been to school in ages. They have big dreams. One girl wants to be a chef before turning her attention to a degree in social work. The Girl from Taylor wanted to join the military but figured her post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis would be a red flag to recruiters and that her asthma might be a liability.
Now she wants to be an obstetrician-gynecologist, though she thinks she might like to start out as a phlebotomist. Some days she thinks about becoming a social worker, but only for kids; she doesn't want to deal with adults. She has a nephew with special needs and might want to adopt him. That way she can protect him — maybe because no one was able to protect her — from the world and all of its badness.
"She has a tendency to want to save everybody but herself," Lutz, her therapist, said.
Parents can visit the camp every other week, though many do not. The Girl from Taylor said her mother doesn't visit often because she is without reliable transportation and can't get to the designated meeting spot to catch a Wolverine shuttle to Vassar.
The kids are allowed a weekly 10-minute phone conversation with an authorized family member, usually a parent or guardian but sometimes siblings, too; cellphones are forbidden.
Clients line up in a regimented way to be escorted across campus at the Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center in Vassar Monday, Aug. 28, 2019. Each client has to remain at arms length and hold their hands in a "diamond" shape behind their backs.
They can receive letters from an authorized family member; Vassar staff members watch the kids read their letters to make sure they aren't getting notes from boyfriends or girlfriends back in the community. Hey, are you holding my mail, the kids sometimes ask staff members. No one is holding their mail. But it's easier for them to think someone is keeping it. That way they don't have to admit their people aren't willing to take the time to write. The Girl from Taylor said she's pretty sure her mother is writing but forgetting to put the letters in the mailbox.
There's therapy every day. The girls write in journals. They discuss the things they did well during the day and the things they didn't do so well. Sometimes, their therapist asks them to list their positive attributes, something many of the girls have difficulty doing because they've grown to despise themselves. Five days a week, usually after school, they have group therapy.
In the evening, after giving up their shoes, the girls take turns using the dormitory bathroom, each getting 13 minutes to undress, shower, wash their hair, dry off, dress for bed in a T-shirt and shorts and brush their teeth. A minder sitting outside the shower times them. The bathroom and shower are the only places the kids are allowed to be out of a monitor's direct line of sight.
There's no jewelry — the Girl from Taylor stuck a staple she found into her ear lobe to keep the piercing from closing. There's also no nail polish, makeup or cologne. No hand sanitizer either because last year one of the kids drank some to get high.
Hair has to be off the shoulders.
Uniforms — sweatpants and shirts in black for newcomers, blue for kids at the beginning of their 12-step program and gray for those who are well along in recovery and free of disciplinary problems — must be worn at all times. "The color," the Girl from Taylor said, "defines who you are."
Drugs lead to prostitution
Drugs lead to prostitution
At the beginning of July, the Girl from Taylor found something on the floor by her bed. She was elated. Wrapped in plastic, her gray uniform. That her therapist, caseworker and some of the staff members had approved her request for the new uniform only made the achievement sweeter. It meant they'd noticed she was doing well and that was something wonderfully new. Few people, it seemed, ever took her side.
She'd returned to the Vassar camp feeling awful about herself. It's unusual for girls to do a second stretch here — they either age out of the juvenile justice system and go to jail or end up on the streets — but police found her holed up at a friend's house and the judge sent her back. She called herself disgusting, selfish and an incredible disappointment. She sounded like her father.
He was abusive; he drank and used drugs and told her she was ugly and worthless and fat. He wasn't always that way, she remembers. He was sober when she was 7 or so. He made crepes for her and her siblings every weekend and dropped her off at latchkey and was calm and for awhile, she had a childhood. She'd give almost anything to go back to that. "It's almost a sacred time," her therapist said. But before long — a few months, maybe more, maybe less — her dad slid back into his addiction. He smacked the Girl from Taylor when he was angry, which was often. Even so, when he and her mom split up, she stayed with him; she disliked her mother's boyfriend and besides, at her father's house, she could pretty much do whatever she wanted.
She started drinking when she was 10. Her father gave her a strawberry margarita, one of those premixed drinks that comes in a foil pouch. Didn't he know she's allergic to strawberries? Or didn't he care? Either way, what the Girl from Taylor remembers most about that day is she had she had to chase her drink with a dose of Benadryl. Before long, she was his weekend drinking buddy. And after that, he started touching her breasts and sticking his hands between her legs. "He wouldn’t put anything in me," she said all these years later. "Now that’s one thing I was conscious enough not to let him do."
Signs coaching life skills on the classroom wall at Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center in Vassar, July 25, 2019.
By 11, she was drinking every day. After smoking a joint with her dad, she added marijuana to her repertoire. And after that, opioid pills, cocaine, and, ultimately, on occasion, heroin. She felt prettier that way, drunk and high. She was more lovable and smarter. To prove it, she sought out attention from romantic partners. Sometimes she picked girls (she identifies as bisexual). But most often, she went after boys, usually losers and usually — as is the pattern with girls who start drugs young — considerably older. One day, her 15-year-old boyfriend paid her the ultimate compliment: You're more mature than most 11-year-olds, he said.
The Girl from Taylor
People might say, 'Yeah, I have enough willpower.' But when there's a bag of pot lying there and you know that, don't tell me you're not tempted. ...There's something in you that flips if you're an addict and just takes complete and full control.
Drugs betrayed her the way they betray everyone who falls for them. They made her skip school and run away from home — even after she moved back in with her mother when she was 11½. Once she was gone so long that the authorities, fearing she might be dead, requested her dental records.
Drugs made her steal a car and crash it into a house, another suicide attempt.
Drugs turned her into a prostitute.
She was 14 the first time she had sex with a stranger for money. An ex-boyfriend, who acted as a pimp for other young girls, recruited her.
"I know you need money and I know you like attention from guys," he said. "I can help you with that."
"Sure," she replied without hesitation because, the way she figured it, she didn't have anything to lose.
The money was good. The base rate: $250, of which she kept about 65%. Sometimes, her ex-boyfriend-turned-pimp would instruct her to charge extra — $500 or more — because it turns out men who like to have sex with children are willing to pay a premium. The Girl from Taylor dressed the way the guys liked — in short and skimpy skirts or dresses, no bra or panties. Except for anal sex, she did everything they wanted. She worked in Detroit and Dearborn, in motel rooms with mold around the toilets and no soap in the showers or cases on the pillows. One guy, who always wore a light-colored shirt and stained jeans, insisted she meet him in the front — and only — seat of his green pickup. There was garbage on the floor and the inside of the truck smelled like McDonald's and flatulence and when the man was done with her, he'd clean himself off with a red rag, the kind mechanics use. You make me want to put you in a sack and keep you in my closet forever, he told her once. He never tried to kidnap her. But she was glad she carried pepper spray.
She had other repeat clients. She saw a guy who warned her not to tell his wife what they were doing, though she hadn't a clue as to his wife's identity. She also saw a guy on whom she had a crush and probably still does because she still giggles when she mentions his name. He was maybe 30, not too fat and not too slim. And cute. And nice. I know what we're doing is wrong, he told her. If you were just a little bit older, we could have something real. "I think we both equally enjoyed each other's company," the Girl from Taylor said.
But, God, she hated herself for what she was doing. She hated herself so much she took a razor to her bare thighs every day she worked as a hooker. Seeing the blood trickle down her legs made her feel like a real person, not the zombie for drugs and sex she'd become.
In 2017, the girl from Taylor cut herself with the jagged stem of a broken wine glass. She said she was trying to kill herself. Recently, she counted the scars; there were 33.
Even now, doing well in treatment, earning the confidence of the staff, she remained haunted by her past, paralyzed, almost, by all the bad. She heard the taunts in her mind — fat, ugly, stupid. She cried about her best friend, who cut his wrist and died, and how she found him in his bedroom and tried to scream but couldn't make a sound and how maybe, if she'd answered his texts from the night before instead of hanging out with her new boyfriend, he would still be alive. She thought about the times she overdosed. About the boyfriend who put her in cold water instead of calling an ambulance. "He claimed he loved me a lot," she said, "but the thing is, if I would have seen him overdosing, I would have been on the phone, like, 'Yeah, my boyfriend is overdosing. I need some help right now.' "
She thought about the miscarriage she had when she was 14. She thought about her father and how much she wanted to hate him for what he did to her but couldn't because sometimes she blamed herself for what happened. Sometimes she wondered: What if I hadn't taken that first drink from him? What if I'd worn different clothes around him? What if I'd told someone what was going on instead of keeping it to myself, thinking he'd stop if I stayed quiet?
The Girl from Taylor
I almost died a whole bunch, a lot, probably more than I can count on all of my body parts. I'm not ready to die yet.
She thought, too, about where she would end up once her time at Vassar was over. As much as she missed her mother, as much as she longed to crawl into her lap — "even though I'm a little bit fatter than I used to be and a little bit taller, she still lets me" — the Girl from Taylor knew she couldn't live with her. At least not yet. She'd come to that conclusion on her own; her therapist thought it showed great maturity because it meant she was finally putting her sobriety first. There's just too much going on at her mother's house. Her sister's ex-boyfriend is in and out and he brings drugs with him. "People might say, 'Yeah, I have enough willpower,' " she said. "But when there's a bag of pot lying there and you know that, don't tell me you're not tempted. ...There's something in you that flips if you're an addict and just takes complete and full control." And if that happens, if she uses again, she knows she will fall quickly into the depths of her addiction. "I almost died a whole bunch, a lot, probably more than I can count on all of my body parts," she said. "I'm not ready to die yet."
She'd wanted to get into a semi-independent living program where she'd stay in a group home, finish her high school degree, work on her recovery and learn to live on her own. But her application was rejected because of her extensive history of drug use; she is further along in her addiction than most of the girls at Vassar.
Sometimes, the Girl from Taylor — who took medication for mood disorders — still thought about killing herself.
At the beginning of August, her funk started to lift. Feeling better, she joined the other girls in a gym class soccer game. It was fun, so much fun being part of a group, so much fun acting like a kid.
But then, while trying to get the ball, she accidentally touched another one of the girls. And the other girl accused her of doing it on purpose, of trying to grope her.
The Girl from Taylor felt someone shove her and it reminded her of the way her father used to shove her, though later the others would say no one pushed her, that she'd imagined it. She reached for the other girl's neck and the two ended up on the floor fighting. The Girl from Taylor got kicked on the side of her forehead and for awhile, she had a mark on her face.
"My head hurts; I feel kind of tired," she said afterward.
But something hurt even more: the idea that someone might think of her as a predator.
As punishment for the fight, she lost her gray uniform.
Childhood chased by adult things
Childhood chased by adult things
At group therapy near the end of August, one of the girls brought up her mostly absent father. She'd learned from her mother that he was being swallowed alive by his addiction She was terrified he was going to overdose and die and that if he did, it'd be all her fault because, as his daughter, she should be doing more to help him. She should be spending time with him and not settling for him only coming around a couple times a year. She should be taking care of him. If anyone could make him change, she could. "I think he cares about me the most, just out of everything," she said. Except as soon as she heard herself, she stopped. "Meth and cocaine," she acknowledged, (are) probably first" on his list. But still, his situation is all her fault.
It wasn't, of course. Lutz was trying to make her understand that. Shame and guilt will only hurt you, she said. Shame and guilt will make you relapse. Did he ask you for help? Did he keep in touch with you? He's your father. Isn't it a father's job to have a relationship with his child? Has he tried having a relationship with you?
The girl didn't answer.
The girl from Taylor, left, hugs her therapist Rebecca Lutz at Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center in Vassar Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. The girl was court ordered to this facility which is part juvenile detention center and part residential drug rehabilitation.
It is profound, the amount of guilt and worry the girls carry with them from all the lying, stealing and cheating that accompanies addiction. And from the hurt they inflicted on family members — even family members who hurt them first. Because as bad as it gets, everyone wants to belong to a family. Families are supposed to be about love. And the girls here are desperate for that.
Which is why the Girl from Taylor, sitting in the therapy circle with the others, was so concerned about her mother. In frail health, living on disability payments, working on her own recovery, her mother was under orders to move out of the house where she'd been living; the landlord had other plans for it. Where would she end up? Where would she find the money for a move? What would the stress of relocating do to her?
"My (probation officer) tells me all the time not to worry about adult things, but that’s hard because that’s where my brain goes," the Girl from Taylor said. "It's just first nature for me to worry about how (my mother's) feeling and money issues and the house being clean and stuff like that. ... I did have to grow up fast. I did have to learn how to do certain things. … I did have to learn how to shut off emotions when I didn't want to feel them. I did have to learn how to say, 'I'm OK' when I feel like crying deep down inside. Everyone says, 'Cherish your childhood.' But I never felt like I had one until it was too late to go back."
And now something else was weighing on her mind: A foster family wanted to give her a home. Moving in with them would mean being able to call her mother on the phone anytime she wanted. Plus, she'd go to a public high school, participate in an extracurricular activity and, maybe best of all, go to prom. "I didn’t get to have a childhood like I should have. ... I'm definitely going to prom, now that I've missed every other thing," she said, her voice giddy about the possibility of hair extensions and pink or red lipstick and eyeliner and red heels and a red dress that's tight, but not too tight. Of all the kids out there who need a place to live, the foster family wanted her. She couldn't believe her luck. She was on the verge of a happy ending.
But after two getting-to-know-each-other visits with the foster family, the
Girl from Taylor started to feel uncomfortable. The foster mother had insisted on buying her a pair of Nike sneakers so kids at the public school wouldn't make fun of her for wearing no-name shoes. And while the Girl from Taylor was grateful, she felt guilty accepting them. Her mother had never been able to afford logos or labels. Growing up, "I didn't care what I was wearing," she told Lutz after spending the weekend with the foster family. "I always had a winter coat, whether it was my sister's winter coat or it was my brother's winter coat. I was happy with what I had."
She couldn't help but worry that moving in with another family — and accepting the shoes and whatever else they might provide — would amount to a betrayal of her own mother. She thought about her father and how he'd eventually signed away his parental rights to her and how hurt she'd been because signing those papers meant he didn't want her. Would her mother feel the same way, unwanted because living with another family is different than living in a facility or a group home. Or would her mother understand the Girl from Taylor needed to stay with the other family in order to stay alive?
The girl in group therapy was still talking about her own father when, suddenly, the Girl from Taylor spoke up. She told the group that she, too, used to blame herself for everything her father did but that she'd been wrong to do so.
"Part of me had to realize my dad is a grown-ass man and he's never changing," she said. "He wasn't caring about me when I was 10 years old and needed my medicine or he molested me. ... I was a kid, what was I doing that was so wrong?"
She sounded angry.
'Do good'
'Do good'
On Aug. 28, the Girl from Taylor left the Vassar camp.
She said her goodbyes to the girls in the classroom.
"Have fun, do everything right. I'll be out there soon," one of the girls said.
"Don't come back," another said.
"I love you guys. Do good," the Girl from Taylor said.
She said goodbye to some of the staff members, who also told her they hope not to see her again.
The Girl from Taylor, dances with joy through her residents hall at the Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center, before she leaves the program Monday, Aug. 28, 2019. "I am really excited" I really want to go to prom" she said of getting out.
Her belongings — a couple of books, plants she'd tried to grow, some paperwork — had been packed in a cardboard box, which was waiting for her on her bed.
She caught up with Lutz, the therapist.
"I'm scared," the Girl from Taylor said.
She was still shaken by the incident at the soccer game, how that other girl had accused her of touching her on purpose. And how quickly her temper had turned and how she'd ended up in a fight. "That's something my dad would have done," she said. "I'm scared because I feel like I'm becoming a little bit more like him. When I get into an argument and I get petty, my dad used to do that. I just have a real short temper, like my dad. It's like that with him. I feel like I'm becoming my dad. I do stupid things just like him." She looked like she might cry.
"Do you want him to continue controlling your life or do you want to take charge?" Lutz asked.
"I try so hard not to be like him," the Girl from Taylor said.
Shortly before noon, she climbed into the back seat of a sedan and rode to start a new life with the foster family.
No one likes a tattle-tale leaker, particularly the DOJ.
Ok, I may need someone to clarify my interpretation of this ongoing case.
On second thought, probably not.
From what I have gathered, Twitter sued DOJ for not being able to tell a small group of its Twitter users that they were under FISA surveillance.
Oh, and Twitter was represented by the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) over at Perkins Coie, who probably conspired with its defendants to let the Clinton, et al. crew know they were being sureveilled.
It is also my belief that someone, or perhaps more than just a someone from the FBI, leaked to the crew that they were being surveilled.
The "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) at Perkins Coie argue that the Espionage Act does not apply to their clients in disclosing if they are under investigation by saying that they have a First Amendment right of free speech to put out aggregate information on how many FISAs have been issued and claim it would be unconstitutional to prosecute them if they snitch, or rather, let their specific Twitter users know they are being surveilled for leaking national security information.
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Twitter prays for the following relief:
A. A declaratory judgment that: i. FISA does not prohibit publication of Twitter’s draft Transparency Report
with respect to FISA orders received or not received; ii. Any interpretation of FISA that prohibits publication of the unredacted
Transparency Report with respect to FISA orders received or not received
is unconstitutional; iii. The FISA secrecy provisions are facially unconstitutional under the First
Amendment because they do not require nondisclosure orders to contain a
defined duration; iv. The FISA secrecy provisions are unconstitutional under the First
Amendment as applied to Twitter; v. FISA does not restrict reporting aggregate numbers of FISA orders
received with no further detail concerning such orders; vi. Any interpretation of FISA that prohibits reporting aggregate numbers of
FISA orders received with no further detail concerning such orders is
unconstitutional; and vii. Prosecution of Twitter under the Espionage Act for disclosing the
aggregate number of FISA orders it has received, if any, or any other
information in its draft Transparency Report that has been redacted by
Defendants, would be an unconstitutional violation of Twitter’s First
Amendment rights.
Sessions has inherited the case and is now the named defendant.
Well, it may be very well possible the reason why certain Twitter users were being surveilled is because of their history of using Facebook for manipulating political campaign messaging and political campaign fundraising on behalf of the DNC, or shall I be more specific and just call it out as Clinton, et al.
Something tells me the approximately 250 Twitter users under FISA surveillance may just possibly hail from media outlets, defense contractors, any other political and personal, domestic & foreign, entities associated with Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, and the rest of her crew, including the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) over there at Perkins Coie and certain persons over at the FBI, who are doing really naughty things that the DOJ and I do not like.
In summation, this is why former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and current U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions cannot say anything in public about FISAgate or the investigation of the 2016 election, because this entire investigation seems to have started in 2010, according to legal filings.
So, once again, the moral of the story is: "Do not be mean to my Sweetie, Period."
Twitter, Inc. v. Sessions et al
Assigned to: Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
Cause: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgement
Date Filed: 10/07/2014
Jury Demand: None
Nature of Suit: 440 Civil Rights: Other
Jurisdiction: U.S. Government Defendant
Plaintiff
Twitter, Inc.
represented by
Eric David Miller
Perkins Coie LLP
1201 Third Avenue, Ste 4900
Seattle, WA 98101
206-359-3773
Fax: 206-359-4773
Email: EMiller@perkinscoie.com LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amanda Lindsay Andrade
Perkins Coie LLP
700 Thirteenth Street NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005-3960
202-654-6356
Fax: 202-654-6211
Email: AAndrade@perkinscoie.com ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Andrew John Pincus
Mayer Brown LLP
1999 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 263-3220
Fax: (202) 263-3300
Email: apincus@mayerbrown.com PRO HAC VICE ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Donald M. Falk
Mayer Brown LLP
Two Palo Alto Square
Suite 300
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2112
650-331-2030
Fax: 650-331-2060
Email: dfalk@mayerbrown.com ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Hayley Lara Berlin
Perkins Coie LLP
700 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005-3960
202-654-6291
Fax: 202-654-9123
Email: HBerlin@perkinscoie.com PRO HAC VICE ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
James G. Snell
Perkins Coie LLP
3150 Porter Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1212
650-838-4367
Fax: 650-838-4567
Email: jsnell@perkinscoie.com ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Lee H. Rubin
Mayer Brown LLP
Two Palo Alto Square
Suite 300
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2112
(650-331-2000
Fax: (650) 331-2060
Email: lrubin@mayerbrown.com ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Michael A Sussmann
Perkins Coie LLP
700 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005-3960
202-654-6333
Fax: 202-654-9127
Email: MSussmann@perkinscoie.com PRO HAC VICE ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
V.
Defendant
Eric H. Holder, Jr. Attorney General of the United States TERMINATED: 05/22/2015
represented by
Julia Alexandra Berman
United States Department of Justice
Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch
20 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washigton, DC 20530
949-350-8719
Email: julia.berman@usdoj.gov LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Steven Yale Bressler
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch
P.O. Box 883
Washington, DC 20044
(202) 305-0167
Fax: (202) 616-8470
Email: steven.bressler@usdoj.gov LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Defendant
United States Department of Justice
represented by
Julia Alexandra Berman
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Steven Yale Bressler
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Eric Joseph Soskin
US Dept of Justice
Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division
RFK Main Justice Building
Room 3416
Washington, DC 20530
202-514-1500
Email: Eric.Soskin@usdoj.gov TERMINATED: 08/24/2017
Defendant
James B. Comey Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
represented by
Julia Alexandra Berman
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Steven Yale Bressler
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Eric Joseph Soskin
(See above for address) TERMINATED: 08/24/2017
Defendant
Federal Bureau of Investigation
represented by
Julia Alexandra Berman
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Steven Yale Bressler
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Eric Joseph Soskin
(See above for address) TERMINATED: 08/24/2017
Defendant
Loretta Lynch Attorney General of the United States TERMINATED: 07/06/2017
represented by
Julia Alexandra Berman
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Steven Yale Bressler
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Eric Joseph Soskin
(See above for address) TERMINATED: 08/24/2017
Defendant
Jefferson Sessions Attorney General of the United Staes
represented by
Julia Alexandra Berman
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Steven Yale Bressler
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
represented by
Townsend KatieLynn
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
1156 15th St. NW
Suite 1250
Washington, DC 20005
202.795.9300
Email: ktownsend@rcfp.org LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Corporations 1 & 2 NSL Recipients
represented by
Kurt Bradford Opsahl
Electronic Frontier Foundation
815 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-436-9333
Fax: 415-436-9993
Email: kurt@eff.org LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Andrew Gellis Crocker
Electronic Frontier Foundation
815 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 436-9333
Fax: (415) 436-9993
Email: andrew@eff.org ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
David A Greene
Electronic Frontier Foundation
815 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-436-9333 x105
Fax: 415-436-9993
Email: davidg@eff.org ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
BuzzFeed, Inc.
represented by
Deborah A. Adler
Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
505 Montgomery St., Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94111-6533
415-276-6565
Fax: 415-276-6599
Email: deborahadler@dwt.com ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Peter Karanjia
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
1919 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006
202-973-4200
Fax: 202-973-4499
Email: PeterKaranjia@dwt.com ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Thomas R. Burke
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
505 Montgomery Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94111-6533
415/276-6500
Fax: 415/276-6599
Email: thomasburke@dwt.com ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
First Look Media, Inc.
represented by
Deborah A. Adler
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Peter Karanjia
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Thomas R. Burke
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Guardian News & Media
represented by
Deborah A. Adler
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Peter Karanjia
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Thomas R. Burke
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
National Public Radio, Inc.
represented by
Deborah A. Adler
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Peter Karanjia
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Thomas R. Burke
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
PEN American Center
represented by
Deborah A. Adler
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Peter Karanjia
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Thomas R. Burke
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
WP Company LLC dba: The Washington Post
represented by
Deborah A. Adler
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Peter Karanjia
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Thomas R. Burke
(See above for address) ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
CloudFlare, Inc.
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
Zeitgeist Law PC
25 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-830-6664
Email: marcia@marciahofmann.com LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
CREDO Mobile, Inc.
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
Law Office of Marcia Hofmann
25 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-830-6664
Email: marcia@marciahofmann.com LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
A Medium Corporation
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Wickr, Inc.
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Wikimedia Foundation
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Automattic Inc.
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Sonic.net, Inc.
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Freedom of the Press Foundation
represented by
Joseph Charles Gratz
Durie Tangri LLP
217 Leidesdorff Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-362-6666
Fax: 415-236-6300
Email: jgratz@durietangri.com ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Reddit, Inc.
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Mapbox, Inc.
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
Amicus
Wickr Foundation
represented by
Marcia Clare Hofmann
(See above for address) LEAD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED
COMPLAINT against James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice (Filing fee $ 400, receipt number 0971-8977026.). Filed by Twitter, Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Exhibits 1 through 5, # 2 Civil Cover Sheet)(Miller, Eric) (Filed on 10/7/2014) Modified on 10/8/2014 (slhS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 10/07/2014)
MOTION of Michael A. Susmann for leave to appear in Pro Hac Vice (Filing fee $ 305, receipt number 0971-8977180) filed by Twitter, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Certificate of Good Standing)(Sussmann, Michael) (Filed on 10/7/2014) Modified on 10/8/2014 (slhS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 10/07/2014)
MOTION of Hayley L. Berlin for leave to appear in Pro Hac Vice (Filing fee $ 305, receipt number 0971-8977283) filed by Twitter, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Certificate of Good Standing)(Berlin, Hayley) (Filed on 10/7/2014) (Entered: 10/07/2014)
10/07/2014
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Case assigned to Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley.
Counsel for plaintiff or the removing party is responsible for serving the Complaint or Notice of Removal, Summons and the assigned judge's standing orders and all other new case documents upon the opposing parties. For information, visit E-Filing A New Civil Case at http://cand.uscourts.gov/ecf/caseopening.
Standing orders can be downloaded from the court's web page at www.cand.uscourts.gov/judges. Upon receipt, the summons will be issued and returned electronically. Counsel is required to send chambers a copy of the initiating documents pursuant to L.R. 5-1(e)(7). A scheduling order will be sent by Notice of Electronic Filing (NEF) within two business days. (sv, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/7/2014) (Entered: 10/07/2014)
ORDER by Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley granting 3 Motion for Pro Hac Vice as to Michael Sussmann (ahm, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/8/2014) Modified on 1/30/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 10/08/2014)
ORDER by Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley granting 4 Motion for Pro Hac Vice as to Hayley Berlin (ahm, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/8/2014) (Entered: 10/08/2014)
*posted in error - please see doc. 14 * Summons Issued as to Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice. (slhS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/8/2014) Modified on 10/9/2014 (slhS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 10/08/2014)
*posted in error - please see doc. 15 * Summons Issued as to James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation. (slhS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/8/2014) Modified on 10/9/2014 (slhS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 10/08/2014)
Initial Case Management Scheduling Order with ADR Deadlines: Case Management Statement due by 1/8/2015. Case Management Conference set for 1/15/2015 01:30 PM in Courtroom F, 15th Floor, San Francisco. (slhS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/8/2014) (Entered: 10/08/2014)
CONSENT/DECLINATION to Proceed Before a US Magistrate Judge by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice.. (Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 10/17/2014) (Entered: 10/17/2014)
ORDER REASSIGNING CASE. Case reassigned to Judge Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for all further proceedings. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley no longer assigned to the case. Signed by Executive Committee on 10/20/14. (sv, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/20/2014) (Entered: 10/20/2014)
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE by Twitter, Inc. re 14 Summons Reissued, 15 Summons Reissued, 1 Complaint, (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A - Service on Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States, # 2 Exhibit B - Service on United States Department of Justice, # 3 Exhibit C - Service on James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, # 4Exhibit D - Service on Federal Bureau of Investigation, # 5 Exhibit E - Service on Deputy Attorney General, James M. Cole, # 6 Exhibit F - Service on United States Attorney for the Northern District of California)(Miller, Eric) (Filed on 11/6/2014) (Entered: 11/06/2014)
CLERK'S NOTICE SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE. Case Management Statement due by 1/19/2015. Initial Case Management Conference set for 1/26/2015 02:00 PM before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland. (Attachments: # 1 Standing Order) (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/7/2014) (Entered: 11/07/2014)
NOTICE Regarding Classified Document by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice re 1 Complaint, (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1. Unclassified, Redacted Version of Plaintiff's Proposed "Transparency Report", # 2 Exhibit 2. October 8, 2014 Letter from Steven Bressler to Michael Sussmann)(Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 11/17/2014) Modified on 11/18/2014 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 11/17/2014)
STIPULATION to Extend Time to Respond to Complaint filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice., Twitter Inc (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 12/3/2014) Modified on 12/4/2014 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 12/03/2014)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER Requesting to Set a Briefing Schedule filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice, Twitter Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order, # 2 Declaration)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 12/3/2014) Modified on 12/4/2014 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 12/03/2014)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 24 Stipulation re Briefing Schedule (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 12/5/2014) (Entered: 12/08/2014)
12/05/2014
Set/Reset Deadlines as to File Motion to Dismiss Complaint by 1/9/15;Responses due by 2/6/2015. Replies due by 2/20/2015. Motion Hearing set for 3/10/2015 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 12/5/2014) (Entered: 12/08/2014)
MOTION to Dismiss (Partial) filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice. Motion Hearing set for 3/10/2015 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Responses due by 2/6/2015. Replies due by 2/20/2015. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 1/9/2015) (Entered: 01/09/2015)
JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice, Twitter. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 1/20/2015) Modified on 1/21/2015 (vlkS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 01/20/2015)
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Initial Case Management Conference held on 1/26/2015.Court Reporter : Raynee Mercado. Plaintiff Attorney James Snell and Michael Sussmann. Defendant Attorney Steven Bressler and Julia Berman. Attachment Minutes.(fs, COURT STAFF) (Date Filed: 1/26/2015) Modified on 1/30/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 01/29/2015)
TRANSCRIPT ORDER by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice for Court Reporter Raynee Mercado. (Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 1/30/2015) (Entered: 01/30/2015)
Transcript of Proceedings held on January 26, 2015, before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Court Reporter Raynee H. Mercado, CSR, Telephone number 510-502-6175, cacsr8258@gmail.com, raynee_mercado@cand.uscourts.gov. Per General Order No. 59 and Judicial Conference policy, this transcript may be viewed only at the Clerks Office public terminal or may be purchased through the Court Reporter until the deadline for the Release of Transcript Restriction.After that date it may be obtained through PACER. Any Notice of Intent to Request Redaction, if required, is due no later than 5 business days from date of this filing. (Re 30 Transcript Order, 32 Transcript Order ) Release of Transcript Restriction set for 5/4/2015. (Related document(s) 30 , 32 ) (rhm) (Filed on 2/3/2015) (Entered: 02/03/2015)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER to Set a Revised Briefing Schedule filed by Twitter, Inc., Eric H. Holder, Jr.. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration, # 2 Proposed Order)(Snell, James) (Filed on 2/12/2015) Modified on 2/12/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 02/12/2015)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 35 Stipulation Setting Revised Briefing Schedule (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/13/2015) (Entered: 02/13/2015)
02/13/2015
Set/Reset Deadlines as to 28 MOTION to Dismiss (Partial). 2/17/15 for amicus briefs, if any;Replies due by 3/4/2015. Motion Hearing set for 3/31/2015 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/13/2015) (Entered: 02/13/2015)
MOTION to File Amicus Curiae Brief filed by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Responses due by 3/3/2015. Replies due by 3/10/2015. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Amicus Brief)(KatieLynn, Townsend) (Filed on 2/17/2015) (Entered: 02/17/2015)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER for [Proposed] Amici Corps. 1 & 2 to Proceed Under Pseudonym filed by Corporations 1 & 2. (Opsahl, Kurt) (Filed on 2/17/2015) (Entered: 02/17/2015)
NOTICE by BuzzFeed, Inc., First Look Media, Inc., Guardian News & Media, National Public Radio, Inc., PEN American Center, WP Company LLC dba: The Washington Post RULE 7.1 DISCLOSURE STATEMENT FOR MEDIA AND WRITERS AMICI (Burke, Thomas) (Filed on 2/17/2015) (Entered: 02/17/2015)
MOTION to File Amicus Curiae Brief filed by BuzzFeed, Inc., First Look Media, Inc., Guardian News & Media, National Public Radio, Inc., PEN American Center, WP Company LLC dba: The Washington Post. Responses due by 3/3/2015. Replies due by 3/10/2015. (Attachments: # 1 Brief for Media and Writers Amici, # 2 Proposed Order)(Burke, Thomas) (Filed on 2/17/2015) (Entered: 02/17/2015)
MOTION for leave to appear in Pro Hac Vice ( Filing fee $ 305, receipt number 0971-9294676.) filed by BuzzFeed, Inc., First Look Media, Inc., Guardian News & Media, National Public Radio, Inc., PEN American Center, WP Company LLC dba: The Washington Post. (Adler, Deborah) (Filed on 2/17/2015) Modified on 2/18/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 02/17/2015)
NOTICE of Appearance by Joseph Charles Gratz for Amicus Curiae Freedom of the Press Foundation (Gratz, Joseph) (Filed on 2/17/2015) (Entered: 02/17/2015)
MOTION to File Amicus Curiae Brief filed by Freedom of the Press Foundation. Responses due by 3/3/2015. Replies due by 3/10/2015. (Attachments: # 1 Amicus Brief, # 2 Proposed Order)(Gratz, Joseph) (Filed on 2/17/2015) (Entered: 02/17/2015)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers GRANTING 41 Stipulation for Proposed Amici Corps. 1 & 2 to Proceed Under Pseudonym (ygrlc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/18/2015) (Entered: 02/18/2015)
ORDER GRANTING LEAVE TO FILE AMICUS CURIAE BRIEFS by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 37 Motion to File Amicus Curiae Brief; granting 42Motion for Leave to File; granting 46 Motion for Leave to File; granting 49 Motion to File Amicus Curiae Brief; granting 52 Motion to File Amicus Curiae Brief. The briefs submitted with the motions and requests are DEEMED FILED as of February 17, 2015, and no additional filing is necessary. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/18/2015) (Entered: 02/19/2015)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 50 Motion for Pro Hac Vice as to Peter Karanjia representing Amicus parties: Buzz Feed Inc.; First Look Media Inc.; Guardian News & Media; National Public Radio, Inc.; PEN American Center; WP Company LLC dba the Washington Post. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/19/2015) (Entered: 02/19/2015)
REPLY (re 28 MOTION to Dismiss (Partial) ) filed byJames B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice. (Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 3/4/2015) (Entered: 03/04/2015)
NOTICE of Errata re: Amicus Curiae Brief of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 37 -1 by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Attachments: # 1 Errata Corrected Brief Amicus Curiae of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)(KatieLynn, Townsend) (Filed on 3/10/2015) Modified on 3/11/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 03/10/2015)
03/18/2015
59
CLERK'S NOTICE CONTINUING HEARING DATE ON DEFENDANTS' PARTIAL MOTION TO DISMISS, Set/Reset Deadlines as to 28 MOTION to Dismiss (Partial). Motion Hearing set for 3/31/2015 is CONTINUED to Tuesday, 4/14/2015 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
(This is a text only docket entry, there is no document associated with this notice.)(fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/18/2015) (Entered: 03/18/2015)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER to Request to Continue Hearing on Defendants' Partial Motion to Dismiss filed by Twitter, Inc.., Eric H. Holder, Jr. (Attachments: # 1Declaration, # 2 Proposed Order)(Sussmann, Michael) (Filed on 3/27/2015) Modified on 3/30/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 03/27/2015)
ORDER CONTINUING HEARING ON DEFENDANTS' PARTIAL MOTION TO DISMISS;, Set/Reset Deadlines as to 28 MOTION to Dismiss (Partial). Motion Hearing set for 4/14/2015 is CONTINUED to 5/5/2015 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.. Signed by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on 3/30/15. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/30/2015) (Entered: 03/30/2015)
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Motion Hearing held and submitted on 5/5/2015 re 28 MOTION to Dismiss (Partial) filed by James B. Comey, Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation Court Reporter Diane Skillman. Plaintiff Attorney Eric Miller. Defendant Attorney Steven Bressler. Attachment Minutes.(fs, COURT STAFF) (Date Filed: 5/5/2015) (Entered: 05/06/2015)
Transcript of Proceedings held on May 5, 2015, before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Court Reporter Diane E. Skillman, Telephone number 510-451-2930, Diane_Skillman@cand.uscourts.gov. Per General Order No. 59 and Judicial Conference policy, this transcript may be viewed only at the Clerks Office public terminal or may be purchased through the Court Reporter until the deadline for the Release of Transcript Restriction.After that date it may be obtained through PACER. Any Notice of Intent to Request Redaction, if required, is due no later than 5 business days from date of this filing. (Re 63 Transcript Order ) Release of Transcript Restriction set for 8/17/2015. (Related documents(s) 63 ) (Skillman, Diane) (Filed on 5/18/2015) (Entered: 05/18/2015)
TRANSCRIPT ORDER by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice for Court Reporter Diane Skillman. (Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 5/18/2015) (Entered: 05/18/2015)
RESPONSE to Plaintiff's "Claims Tracking Table" by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric H. Holder, Jr, United States Department of Justice. (Attachments: # 1Exhibit Copy of Plaintiff's "Claims Tracking Table", # 2 Exhibit Notice Regarding Classified Exhibit 2)(Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 5/22/2015) (Entered: 05/22/2015)
NOTICE by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice Regarding Enactment of the USA FREEDOM Act (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit The USA FREEDOM Act of 2015)(Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 6/3/2015) (Entered: 06/03/2015)
NOTICE by Twitter, Inc. Regarding Enactment of USA Freedom Act (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2)(Snell, James) (Filed on 6/9/2015) (Entered: 06/09/2015)
ORDER DIRECTING FURTHER BRIEFING RE: EFFECT OF RECENT LEGISLATION. Signed by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on 6/11/15. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 6/11/2015) (Entered: 06/11/2015)
MOTION for leave to appear in Pro Hac Vice of Amanda L. Andrade ( Filing fee $ 305, receipt number 0971-9605206.) filed by Twitter, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Certificate of Good Standing)(Andrade, Amanda) (Filed on 6/16/2015) (Entered: 06/16/2015)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 70 Motion for Pro Hac Vice as to Amanda L. Andrade representing Plaintiff Twitter Inc. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 6/19/2015) (Entered: 06/19/2015)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER to Set a Revised Briefing Schedule filed by Twitter, Inc., Loretta E. Lynch. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration, # 2 Proposed Order)(Snell, James) (Filed on 6/23/2015) Modified on 6/24/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 06/23/2015)
Supplemental Brief Regarding the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 re 69 Order filed byJames B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Related document(s) 69 ) (Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 7/17/2015) Modified on 7/20/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 07/17/2015)
Defendants' Reply Addressing Plaintiff's Supplemental Brief Regarding the USA FREEDOM Act filed byJames B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1)(Related document(s) 75 ) (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 8/7/2015) Modified on 8/10/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 08/07/2015)
NOTICE by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice of Recent Authority (Attachments: # 1 Recent Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)(Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 8/28/2015) (Entered: 08/28/2015)
09/04/2015
79
CLERK'S NOTICE SETTING HEARING RE SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING.Hearing re Supplemental Briefing [Order at Dkt. No. 73 ] is set for Tuesday, 9/22/2015 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
(This is a text-only entry generated by the court. There is no document associated with this entry.) (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/4/2015) (Entered: 09/04/2015)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER to Continuing Hearing on Effect of Recent Legislation filed by Twitter, Inc., Loretta E. Lynch. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Michael A. Sussmann, # 2 Proposed Order)(Sussmann, Michael) (Filed on 9/10/2015) Modified on 9/11/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 09/10/2015)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 80 Stipulation/Request to Continue Hearing re: Effect of USA Freedom Act; Directing the Filing of Supplemental Briefing. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/11/2015) (Entered: 09/11/2015)
09/11/2015
Set/Reset Deadlines as to 28 MOTION to Dismiss (Partial). Motion Hearing set for 9/22/2015 is CONTINUED to 10/13/2015 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/11/2015) (Entered: 09/11/2015)
Response to Court's Four Questions on Effect of Recent Legislation filed byTwitter, Inc.. (Sussmann, Michael) (Filed on 9/28/2015) Modified on 9/29/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 09/28/2015)
Supplemental Brief in Response re 81 Order on Stipulation filed byJames B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Related document(s) 81 ) (Bressler, Steven) (Filed on 9/28/2015) Modified on 9/29/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 09/28/2015)
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Motion Hearing held and submitted on 10/13/2015 re 28 MOTION to Dismiss (Partial) filed by James B. Comey, Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Court Reporter Name Raynee Mercado. Plaintiff Attorney Michael Sussman. Defendant Attorney Steven Bressler. Attachment MINUTES.(fs, COURT STAFF) (Date Filed: 10/13/2015) (Entered: 10/14/2015)
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO DISMISS AS MOOT AND, ON THE COURT'S OWN MOTION, ORDERING FILING OF AMENDED COMPLAINT IN LIGHT OF RECENT LEGISLATION by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ; denying 28 Motion to Dismiss. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/14/2015) (Entered: 10/14/2015)
Transcript of Proceedings held on October 13, 2015, before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Court Reporter Raynee H. Mercado, CSR, telephone number 510-502-6175, cacsr8258@gmail.com, raynee_mercado@cand.uscourts.gov. Per General Order No. 59 and Judicial Conference policy, this transcript may be viewed only at the Clerk's Office public terminal or may be purchased through the Court Reporter until the deadline for the Release of Transcript Restriction. After that date it may be obtained through PACER. Any Notice of Intent to Request Redaction, if required, is due no later than 5 business days from date of this filing. (Re 86 Transcript Order ) Release of Transcript Restriction set for 1/19/2016. (Related document(s) 86 ) (rhm) (Filed on 10/21/2015) (Entered: 10/21/2015)
AMENDED COMPLAINT for Declaratory Judgment and Injunctive Relief 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202 against All Defendants. Filed byTwitter, Inc.. (Snell, James) (Filed on 11/13/2015) (Entered: 11/13/2015)
11/16/2015
89
CLERK'S NOTICE VACATING THE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015 AT 9:01AM COMPLIANCE HEARING.
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MOTION for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply as to 88 Amended Complaint filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 11/19/2015) Modified on 11/20/2015 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 11/19/2015)
ORDER by Judge Gonzalez Rogers granting 90 Motion for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply 88 Amended Complaint Response to Amended Complaint due by 1/15/2016. (ygrlc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/23/2015) (Entered: 11/23/2015)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER Requesting to Set a Briefing Schedule filed by Twitter, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Michael A. Sussmann, # 2 Proposed Order)(Snell, James) (Filed on 1/14/2016) (Entered: 01/14/2016)
ORDER GRANTING IN PART STIPULATED REQUEST TO SET BRIEFING SCHEDULE, AS MODIFIED BY THE COURT. Set/Reset Deadlines as to Defendants' Anticipated Motion to Dismiss: Responses due by 2/5/2016. Replies due by 2/26/2016. Motion Hearing set for 3/15/2016 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Signed by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on 1/15/16. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 1/15/2016) (Entered: 01/15/2016)
MOTION to Dismiss the Amended Complaint filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice. Motion Hearing set for 3/15/2016 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Responses due by 2/5/2016. Replies due by 2/26/2016. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 1/15/2016) (Entered: 01/15/2016)
NOTICE of Change of Law Practice Name by A Medium Corporation, Automattic Inc., CREDO Mobile, Inc., CloudFlare, Inc., Wikimedia Foundation, Reddit, Inc., Mapbox, Inc., Wickr Foundation (Hofmann, Marcia) (Filed on 2/5/2016) Modified on 2/8/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 02/05/2016)
MOTION for Leave to File Brief as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiff and for 3-day Extension of Time for Government's Reply filed by BuzzFeed, Inc., First Look Media, Inc., Guardian News & Media, National Public Radio, Inc., PEN American Center, WP Company LLC dba: The Washington Post. (Attachments: # 1 Brief for Media and Writers Amici, # 2Proposed Order)(Karanjia, Peter) (Filed on 2/19/2016) (Entered: 02/19/2016)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 98 Motion for Leave to File Brief of Media and Writers AMICI and for 3-day Extension of Time for Government's Reply. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/23/2016) (Entered: 02/23/2016)
Brief for Media and Writers Amici filed byBuzzFeed, Inc., First Look Media, Inc., Guardian News & Media, National Public Radio, Inc., PEN American Center, WP Company LLC dba: The Washington Post. (Karanjia, Peter) (Filed on 2/24/2016) Modified on 2/25/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 02/24/2016)
MOTION for leave to appear in Pro Hac Vice of Andrew J. Pincus ( Filing fee $ 305, receipt number 0971-10258174.) filed by Twitter, Inc.. (Pincus, Andrew) (Filed on 3/2/2016) (Entered: 03/02/2016)
REPLY (re 94 MOTION to Dismiss the Amended Complaint ) filed byJames B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 3/2/2016) (Entered: 03/02/2016)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 103 Motion for Pro Hac Vice as to Andrew J. Pincus representing Plaintiff Twitter, Inc. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/3/2016) (Entered: 03/03/2016)
03/10/2016
106
CLERK'S NOTICE MOVING MOTION HEARING.The Motion to Dismiss [Dkt. no. 94] previously set for Tuesday, March 15, 2016 is ADVANCED to MONDAY, March 14, 2016 at 2:30pm. The 3/15/16 hearing date is VACATED.
Motion Hearing is set for 3/14/2016 02:30 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Set/Reset Deadlines as to 94 MOTION to Dismiss the Amended Complaint. Motion Hearing set for Monday, 3/14/2016 02:30 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
(This is a text-only entry generated by the court. There is no document associated with this entry.) (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/10/2016) (Entered: 03/10/2016)
Clerk's Notification of Request for Video Recording re 3/14/2016 hearing. Parties are to submit the attached form via email only to cameras@cand.uscourts.gov by 5:00 p.m. Pacific on March 11, 2016. (Attachments: # 1 Party Response to Request for Video Recording) (zml, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/10/2016) (Entered: 03/10/2016)
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Motion Hearing held and submitted on 3/14/2016 re 94 MOTION to Dismiss the Amended Complaint filed by Loretta E. Lynch, James B. Comey, United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation.Total Time in Court 1:08. Court Reporter Name Raynee Mercado. Attachment Minutes.(fs, COURT STAFF) (Date Filed: 3/14/2016) (Entered: 03/14/2016)
TRANSCRIPT ORDER by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice for Court Reporter Raynee Mercado. (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 3/17/2016) (Entered: 03/17/2016)
Transcript of Proceedings held on March 14, 2016, before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Court Reporter Raynee H. Mercado, CSR, telephone number 510-502-6175, cacsr8258@gmail.com, raynee_mercado@cand.uscourts.gov. Per General Order No. 59 and Judicial Conference policy, this transcript may be viewed only at the Clerk's Office public terminal or may be purchased through the Court Reporter until the deadline for the Release of Transcript Restriction. After that date it may be obtained through PACER. Any Notice of Intent to Request Redaction, if required, is due no later than 5 business days from date of this filing. (Re 110 Transcript Order, 111 Transcript Order ) Release of Transcript Restriction set for 6/28/2016. (Related document(s) 110 , 111 ) (rhm) (Filed on 3/30/2016) (Entered: 03/30/2016)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting in part and denying in part 94 Motion to Dismiss Amended Complaint. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 5/2/2016) (Entered: 05/02/2016)
AMENDED COMPLAINT Second Amended Complaint for Declaratory Judgment and Injunctive Relief Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sections 2201 and 2202 against All Defendants. Filed byTwitter, Inc.. (Pincus, Andrew) (Filed on 5/24/2016) (Entered: 05/24/2016)
MOTION for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply as to 114 Amended Complaint filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 6/13/2016) (Entered: 06/13/2016)
Letter from Defendants pursuant to Paragraph 9(a) of the Courts Standing Order for Civil Cases . (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 6/13/2016) (Entered: 06/13/2016)
Letter from Andrew J. Pincus, for Twitter, Inc. Responding to the Government's June 13, 2016 letter requesting a pre-filing conference. (Pincus, Andrew) (Filed on 6/16/2016) (Entered: 06/16/2016)
RESPONSE (re 115 MOTION for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply as to 114 Amended Complaint ) filed byTwitter, Inc.. (Pincus, Andrew) (Filed on 6/17/2016) (Entered: 06/17/2016)
ORDER DENYING GOVERNMENT'S REQUEST FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT CONFERENCE; SETTING DEADLINE FOR RESPONSIVE PLEADING by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting in part 115 Motion for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 6/17/2016) (Entered: 06/17/2016)
ANSWER to Second Amended Complaint byJames B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta E. Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 7/5/2016) Modified on 7/6/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 07/05/2016)
08/23/2016
121
CLERK'S NOTICE SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE. Case Management Statement due by 9/26/2016. Case Management Conference set for Monday, 10/3/2016 02:00 PM before Hon. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland.
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08/24/2016
122
CLERK'S NOTICE CONTINUING CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE DATE TO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2016. Case Management Statement due by 9/28/2016. Further Case Management Conference set for 10/3/2016 is CONTINUED to specially set date of WEDNESDAY, 10/5/2016 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland.
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*******FILED IN ERROR. RE-FILED AT DOCUMENT # 124 *******
ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION for an Order Directing Defendants to Initiate an Expedited Security Clearance Process for Plaintiff's Counsel filed by Twitter, Inc.. Responses due by 9/26/2016. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Andrew John Pincus, # 2 Declaration of Lee H. Rubin, # 3 Proposed Order)(Pincus, Andrew) (Filed on 9/21/2016) Modified on 9/22/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 09/21/2016)
MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel (CORRECTION OF DOCKET # 123) filed by Twitter, Inc.. Motion Hearing set for 11/8/2016 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Responses due by 10/6/2016. Replies due by 10/13/2016. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration by Andrew John Pincus, # 2 Declaration by Lee H. Rubin, # 3 Proposed Order)(Pincus, Andrew) (Filed on 9/22/2016) Modified on 9/22/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 09/22/2016)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER continue the case management conference currently scheduled for October 5, 2016 filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice, Twitter Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 9/23/2016) Modified on 9/26/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 09/23/2016)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 125 Stipulation to Continue Case Management Conference to October 24, 2016. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/27/2016) (Entered: 09/27/2016)
09/28/2016
Set/Reset Hearing re 126 Order on Stipulation. Further Case Management Conference set for 10/24/2016 02:00 PM. (cpS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/28/2016) (Entered: 09/28/2016)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER requesting to extend the deadlines for the response to and reply in support of Plaintiffs Motion for an Order Directing Defendants to Initiate and Expedited Security Clearance Process for Plaintiffs Counsel filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice, Twitter Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 10/3/2016) Modified on 10/4/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 10/03/2016)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 127 Stipulation. Hearing currently set for 11/8/16 is CONTINUED to 11/22/16 at 9:00AM. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/5/2016) (Entered: 10/05/2016)
10/05/2016
Set/Reset Deadlines as to 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel. Responses due by 10/18/2016. Replies due by 10/28/2016. Motion Hearing set for 11/22/2016 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/5/2016) (Entered: 10/05/2016)
ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION for a 3-Day Extension of Time to Respond to the Plaintiff's Motion for an Order Directing Defendants to Initiate an Expedited Security Clearance Process for Plaintiffs Counsel filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. Responses due by 10/18/2016. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 10/14/2016) (Entered: 10/14/2016)
NOTICE of Non-Opposition by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice re 129 ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION for a 3-Day Extension of Time to Respond to the Plaintiff's Motion for an Order Directing Defendants to Initiate an Expedited Security Clearance Process for Plaintiffs CounselNotice of Plaintiff's Non-Opposition to Defendants' Administrative Motion (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 10/15/2016) Modified on 10/17/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 10/15/2016)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 129 Administrative Motion for Three Day Extension. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/17/2016) (Entered: 10/17/2016)
10/17/2016
Set/Reset Deadlines as to 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel. Responses due by 10/21/2016. Replies due by 11/2/2016. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/17/2016) (Entered: 10/17/2016)
10/17/2016
Set/Reset Deadlines as to 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel. Motion Hearing set for 11/22/2016 09:00 AM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/17/2016) (Entered: 11/04/2016)
Updated Joint Case Management Statement filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice, Twitter Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Julia Berman Regarding October 17, 2016 Technical Failure, Submitted Pursuant to Local Rule 5-1(e)(5))(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 10/18/2016) Modified on 10/19/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 10/18/2016)
RESPONSE (re 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel ) filed byJames B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 10/21/2016) (Entered: 10/21/2016)
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Further Case Management Conference held on 10/24/2016. Government shall file Motion for Summary Judgment by 11/15/2016. Responses due by 12/6/2016. Replies due by 12/20/2016. Motion Hearing set for 1/17/2017 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.FTR Time 2:20pm-3:01pm. Attachment Minutes.(fs, COURT STAFF) (Date Filed: 10/24/2016) (Entered: 10/28/2016)
TRANSCRIPT ORDER for proceedings held on 10/24/16 before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers by Twitter, Inc., for Court Reporter FTR - Oakland. (Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 10/28/2016) (Entered: 10/28/2016)
REPLY (re 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel ) filed byTwitter, Inc.. (Pincus, Andrew) (Filed on 11/2/2016) (Entered: 11/02/2016)
Transcript of Proceedings of the official sound recording held on 10/24/16, before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. FTR/Transcriber Echo Reporting, Inc., telephone number (858) 453-7590.;echoreporting@yahoo.com. Tape Number: FTR 2:20 - 3:01. Per General Order No. 59 and Judicial Conference policy, this transcript may be viewed only at the Clerk's Office public terminal or may be purchased through the Court Reporter/Transcriber until the deadline for the Release of Transcript Restriction. After that date it may be obtained through PACER. Any Notice of Intent to Request Redaction, if required, is due no later than 5 business days from date of this filing. (Re 135 Transcript Order ) Redaction Request due 11/28/2016. Redacted Transcript Deadline set for 12/8/2016. Release of Transcript Restriction set for 2/6/2017. (Related documents(s) 135 ) (tgb, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/7/2016) (Entered: 11/07/2016)
TRANSCRIPT ORDER for proceedings held on 10/24/2016 before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice, for Court Reporter FTR - Oakland. (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 11/9/2016) (Entered: 11/09/2016)
ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION for a 2-Day Extension of Time for Defendants to Submit their Motion for Summary Judgment filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. Responses due by 11/14/2016. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 11/9/2016) (Entered: 11/09/2016)
ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION for Extension of Time to Submit Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. Responses due by 11/18/2016. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 11/14/2016) (Entered: 11/14/2016)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 141 Administrative Motion Extension of Time. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/15/2016) (Entered: 11/15/2016)
11/15/2016
Set/Reset Deadlines as to Defendants file Motion for Summary Judgment by 11/22/16. Responses due by 12/13/2016. Replies due by 12/27/2016. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/15/2016) (Entered: 11/15/2016)
11/16/2016
143
CLERK'S NOTICE CONTINUING THE NOVEMBER 22, 2016 MOTION HEARING TO JANUARY 17, 2017. The Motion set 11/22/2016, Dkt. no. 124 is CONTINUED to 1/17/2017 at 2:00pm for hearing along with Government's Motion for Summary Judgment to be set for hearing same date and time. See Minutes Dkt. No. 134.
Set/Reset Deadlines as to 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel.. (This is a text-only entry generated by the court. There is no document associated with this entry(fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/16/2016) (Entered: 11/16/2016)
NOTICE by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice of Lodging of Classified Declaration of Michael Steinbach for In Camera, Ex Parte Review (Soskin, Eric) (Filed on 11/22/2016) (Entered: 11/22/2016)
MOTION for Summary Judgment filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. Motion Hearing set for 1/17/2017 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Responses due by 12/13/2016. Replies due by 12/27/2016. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 11/22/2016) (Entered: 11/22/2016)
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STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER to Continue Case Management Conference filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 11/23/2016) Modified on 11/23/2016 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 11/23/2016)
ERRATA re 145 MOTION for Summary Judgment by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Attachments: # 1Appendix 1)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 12/1/2016) (Entered: 12/01/2016)
STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER To Extend Deadlines For Opposition To And Reply In Support Of Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgment filed by Twitter, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 12/8/2016) (Entered: 12/08/2016)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 148 Stipulation re Extension of Briefing Dates and Continuing Hearings. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 12/9/2016) (Entered: 12/09/2016)
12/09/2016
Set/Reset Deadlines as to 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel, 145 MOTION for Summary Judgment . Responses due by 12/19/2016. Replies due by 1/5/2017. Motion Hearing set for 1/24/2017 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 12/9/2016) (Entered: 12/09/2016)
Request for Judicial Notice re 150 Opposition/Response to Motion in Support of Opposition to Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment filed byTwitter, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, Part 1, # 5 Exhibit D, Part 2, # 6 Exhibit D, Part 3, # 7 Exhibit D, Part 4, # 8 Exhibit E)(Related document(s) 150 ) (Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 12/19/2016) (Entered: 12/19/2016)
Declaration of Lee H. Rubin in Support of 150 Opposition/Response to Motion in Support of Opposition to Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment filed byTwitter, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D)(Related document(s) 150 ) (Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 12/19/2016) (Entered: 12/19/2016)
MOTION for Protective Order and [Proposed] Protective Order filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. Motion Hearing set for 1/31/2017 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Responses due by 1/5/2017. Replies due by 1/12/2017. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Soskin, Eric) (Filed on 12/22/2016) Modified on 12/23/2016 (cjlS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 12/22/2016)
Declaration of Eric Soskin in Support re 153 MOTION for Protective Order filed byJames B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3)(Related document(s) 153 ) (Soskin, Eric) (Filed on 12/22/2016) Modified on 12/23/2016 (cjlS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 12/22/2016)
Notice of Withdrawal of Motion Re: ECF No. 153 (Motion for Protective Order) (Soskin, Eric) (Filed on 12/28/2016) (Entered: 12/28/2016)
01/04/2017
156
CLERK'S NOTICE Continuing Time of Motion Hearing on Tuesday January 24, 2017 to 1:00 PM.
Set/Reset Deadlines as to 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel, 145 MOTION for Summary Judgment. Motion Hearing set for 1/24/2017 will be held at 01:00 PM (instead of at 2:00 PM ) in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
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STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER to Extend Deadline for Reply in Support of Defendants Motion For Summary Judgment and to Continue the Hearing Currently Set for January 24, 2017, filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice, Twitter, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 1/4/2017) Modified on 1/5/2017 (jlmS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 01/04/2017)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Granting 157 Stipulated Request to Extend Deadline for Reply and Continue Hearing. Reply due 1/10/17. Motion Hearing CONTINUED to 2/14/2017 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.. (ygrlc1S, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 1/5/2017) (Entered: 01/05/2017)
01/06/2017
159
CLERK'S NOTICE Continuing Motion Hearing on Motion for Order Directing Defendants to Initiate an Expedited Security Clearance Process to 2/14/2017. Set/Reset Deadlines as to 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel. Motion Hearing set for 2/14/2017 02:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers; now set for same time and date as Motion for Summary Judgment 145 .
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REPLY (re 145 MOTION for Summary Judgment ) filed byJames B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 1/10/2017) (Entered: 01/10/2017)
ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION Nunc Pro Tunc Administrative Motion to Extend Time for Defendants to Submit their Separate Statement of Undisputed Facts filed by James B. Comey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Loretta Lynch, United States Department of Justice. Responses due by 1/17/2017. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order, # 2 Exhibit 1)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 1/10/2017) (Entered: 01/10/2017)
OPPOSITION/RESPONSE (re 161 ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION Nunc Pro Tunc Administrative Motion to Extend Time for Defendants to Submit their Separate Statement of Undisputed Facts ) filed byTwitter, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 1/17/2017) (Entered: 01/17/2017)
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Motion Hearing held and submitted on 2/14/2017 re 124 MOTION For An Order Directing Defendants To Initiate An Expedited Security Clearance Process For Plaintiff's Counsel filed by Twitter, Inc., 145 MOTION for Summary Judgment filed by Loretta Lynch, James B. Comey, United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Total Time in Court 1:22. Court Reporter Name Raynee Mercado. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Date Filed: 2/14/2017) (Entered: 02/15/2017)
Joint Discovery Letter Brief filed by Twitter, Inc., Loretta Lynch, et al. (Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 2/17/2017) Modified on 2/21/2017 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 02/17/2017)
Proposed Protective Order by Twitter, Inc., James B. Comey, et al. (Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 3/10/2017) Modified on 3/13/2017 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 03/10/2017)
TRANSCRIPT ORDER for proceedings held on 2/14/17 before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers by Twitter, Inc., for Court Reporter Raynee Mercado. (Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 3/20/2017) (Entered: 03/20/2017)
STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER granting re 168 Proposed Order filed by James B. Comey, Twitter, Inc., United States Department of Justice, PROTECTIVE ORDER. Signed by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on 3/27/17. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/27/2017) Modified on 3/28/2017 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 03/27/2017)
Transcript of Proceedings held on February 14, 2017, before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Court Reporter Raynee H. Mercado, CSR, telephone number 510-502-6175, cacsr8258@gmail.com, raynee_mercado@cand.uscourts.gov. Per General Order No. 59 and Judicial Conference policy, this transcript may be viewed only at the Clerk's Office public terminal or may be purchased through the Court Reporter until the deadline for the Release of Transcript Restriction. After that date it may be obtained through PACER. Any Notice of Intent to Request Redaction, if required, is due no later than 5 business days from date of this filing. (Re 169 Transcript Order ) Release of Transcript Restriction set for 7/10/2017. (Related document(s) 169 ) (rhm) (Filed on 4/10/2017) (Entered: 04/10/2017)
ORDER by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granting 124 Twitter's Motion for Order Directing Defendants to Expedite Security Clearance; denying without prejudice 145Motion for Summary Judgment. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 7/6/2017) (Entered: 07/06/2017)
ORDER SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE AND DISCOVERY STATUS CONFERENCE. Further Case Management Conference set for Monday, 8/14/2017 01:00 PM in Courtroom 1, 4th Floor, Oakland. Updated Case Management Statement and Joint Supplemental Statement re discovery dispute filed by 8/7/2017. Signed by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on 7/6/2017. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 7/6/2017) (Entered: 07/06/2017)
UPDATED JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT and Statement Regarding Discovery Dispute filed by United States Department of Justice, Twitter Inc. (Soskin, Eric) (Filed on 8/7/2017) Modified on 8/8/2017 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 08/07/2017)
NOTICE by United States Department of Justice of Filing of Declaration of Carl Ghattas (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Carl Ghattas)(Soskin, Eric) (Filed on 8/8/2017) (Entered: 08/08/2017)
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Further Case Management Conference held on 8/14/2017. Discovery Hearing held on 8/14/2017.Total Time in Court 43 minutes. Court Reporter Name Raynee Mercado. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Date Filed: 8/14/2017) (Entered: 08/23/2017)
AMENDED Exhibit A to Joint Letter Brief Filed February 17, 2017 by Twitter, Inc.. . (Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 8/24/2017) Modified on 8/25/2017 (cpS, COURT STAFF). (Entered: 08/24/2017)
NOTICE by Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jefferson B. Sessions, III, United States Department of Justice Notice of Filing of Declaration of EAD Ghattas (Attachments: # 1Declaration of EAD Ghattas)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 8/28/2017) (Entered: 08/28/2017)
MOTION for Reconsideration re 172 Order on Motion for Miscellaneous Relief, Order on Motion for Summary Judgment filed by Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jefferson B. Sessions, III, United States Department of Justice. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order)(Berman, Julia) (Filed on 9/5/2017) (Entered: 09/05/2017)
09/07/2017
***See dkt. # 176 . Set/Reset Deadlines as to 180 MOTION for Reconsideration. Responses due by 9/26/2017. Replies due by 10/10/2017. Motion Hearing set for 10/24/2017 02:00 PM before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. (cpS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/7/2017) (Entered: 09/07/2017)
TRANSCRIPT ORDER for proceedings held on 8/14/17 before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers by Twitter, Inc., for Court Reporter Raynee Mercado. (Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 9/7/2017) (Entered: 09/07/2017)
Transcript of Proceedings held on August 14, 2017, before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Court Reporter Raynee H. Mercado, CSR, telephone number 510-502-6175, cacsr8258@gmail.com. Per General Order No. 59 and Judicial Conference policy, this transcript may be viewed only at the Clerk's Office public terminal or may be purchased through the Court Reporter until the deadline for the Release of Transcript Restriction. After that date it may be obtained through PACER. Any Notice of Intent to Request Redaction, if required, is due no later than 5 business days from date of this filing. (Re 181 Transcript Order ) Release of Transcript Restriction set for 12/21/2017. (Related document(s) 181 ) (rhm) (Filed on 9/25/2017) (Entered: 09/25/2017)
OPPOSITION/RESPONSE (re 180 MOTION for Reconsideration re 172 Order on Motion for Miscellaneous Relief, Order on Motion for Summary Judgment ) filed byTwitter, Inc.. (Rubin, Lee) (Filed on 9/26/2017) (Entered: 09/26/2017)
REPLY (re 180 MOTION for Reconsideration re 172 Order on Motion for Miscellaneous Relief, Order on Motion for Summary Judgment ) filed byFederal Bureau of Investigation, Jefferson B. Sessions, III, United States Department of Justice. (Berman, Julia) (Filed on 10/10/2017) (Entered: 10/10/2017)
ORDER VACATING HEARING ON MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION. Signed by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on 10/19/2017. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/19/2017) (Entered: 10/19/2017)
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers: Telephone Conference held on 2/6/2018.Total Time in Court: 7 minutes. Court Reporter: NOT REPORTED. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Date Filed: 2/6/2018) (Entered: 02/07/2018)
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART TWITTER'S REQUEST TO COMPEL FURTHER RESPONSES TO DISCOVERY; SETTING FURTHER CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE re 167 Joint Discovery Letter Brief filed by Loretta Lynch, Twitter, Inc., Federal Bureau of Investigation.. Signed by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on 2/12/2018. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/12/2018) (Entered: 02/12/2018)
02/12/2018
Set/Reset Hearing re 188 Order, Further Case Management Conference set for 4/9/2018 02:00 PM in Oakland, Courtroom 1, 4th Floor. (fs, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/12/2018) (Entered: 02/12/2018)
Clients line up in a regimented way to be escorted across campus at the Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center in Vassar Monday, Aug. 28, 2019. Each client has to remain at arms length and hold their hands in a "diamond" shape behind their backs.
