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Case 1:06-cv-01983-ESH Document 10 Filed 03/26/2007 Page 1 of 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TAX ANALYSTS and ALLEN KENNEY, Plaintiffs, v.
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
Defendant.
No. 1:06-CV-1983(ESH) STIPULATION Plaintiffs and defendant hereby stipulate and agree, subject to the approval of the Court:
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Plaintiffs shall serve on defendant no more than 25 interrogatories pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 33 on or before March 30, 2007.
Defendant shall answer or object to the interrogatories within 30 days of service as provided by Fed.R.Civ.P. 33(b) and 26(b)(5).
2. In order to permit the parties to proceed as provided in ¶ 1 above, plaintiffs’ time to file and serve their opposition to defendant’s motion for summary judgment shall be continued to 30 days after plaintiffs receive defendant’s responses to plaintiffs’ interrogatories; but subject to ¶¶ 3 and 4 below. 3(a).
If plaintiffs deem defendants’ responses to their Rule 33 interrogatories insufficient to permit them effectively to oppose defendant’s motion for summary judgment, plaintiffs may move the Court, within the 30 day period specified in ¶ 2 above, for a further continuance, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(f), in order to take further discovery.
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Case 1:06-cv-01983-ESH (b).
Document 10 Filed 03/26/2007 Page 2 of 3 The discovery that plaintiffs may so request shall be limited to (1) a Vaughn index, (2) Rule 34 requests for production of documents and (3) no more than three depositions: one deposition of defendant’s declarant, Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mark W. Everson; one deposition of defendant’s declarant, Brad Bouton, and one deposition of a member of defendant’s Senior Executive Team (“SET”).
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Defendant may oppose any motion for a continuance that plaintiffs may file pursuant to ¶ 3 above.
Defendant may oppose or object to plaintiffs’ proposed Vaughn index, plaintiffs’ proposed Rule 34 requests for production of documents and/or -2- 2348934.1
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Case 1:06-cv-01983-ESH Document 10 Filed 03/26/2007 Page 3 of 3 plaintiffs’ proposed depositions, or any of them, or may move for a protective order under Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(c). Dated: March __, 2007 Respectfully submitted, William A. Dobrovir WILLIAM A. DOBROVIR D.C. Bar No. 030148 P.O. Box 198 Sperryville, VA 22740-0198
(540) 987-9114 David M. Katinsky DAVID M. KATINSKY D.C. Bar No.
Trial Attorney, Special Litigation Tax Division U.S. Department of Justice P.O. Box 227 Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044 Counsel for Defendant IRS CORNISH F. HITCHCOCK D.C. Bar No. 238824 Suite 350 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20015
(202) 364-1050 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Approved:
______________________________ UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Dated: _______________________ -3- 2348934.1
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