Subject: Response to Your January 29, 2015 Letter

Subject: Response to Your January 29, 2015 Letter Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:49:29 +0000 Importance: Normal Paul and Brad, The government opposes your motion to amend the victims' petition. The existence of the non-prosecution agreement was made known to petitioners in August 2008, the month after the CVRA action was filed, yet the petitioners want to amend their petition more than six years into the action. Also, in paragraph 1 of the proposed amended petition, the petitioners presuppose that Jane Doe No. 3 and Jane Doe No. 4 have been added to the action, which has not occurred. More fundamentally, the government believes that the CVRA intended assertions of alleged violations should be done promptly, so the court can resolve the issue expeditiously. The government opposes the motion to add two new parties, Jane Doe No. 3 and No. 4, for the same reasons stated in the government's opposition to the motion to join. When 28 U.S.C. 2401(a) was enacted in 1948, the "beyond the s