STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER FOR CONTINUANCE OF SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

KENDALL J. NEWMAN, Magistrate Judge.

Under Local Rules 143 and 270, the parties, through their counsel of record, agree and request that the settlement conference scheduled for May 4, 2015 be continued to June 11, 2015 at 10 a.m. (See ECF No.218.) Good cause exists to grant this stipulation because the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) requires additional time to obtain settlement authority. Due to the amount of authority being requested in anticipation of the settlement conference, CDCR must obtain authority at various levels of the State government. Without a continuance, CDCR will not have the level of authority to have a meaning settlement conference. Thus, a continuance is needed.

The parties also agree and request that the deadline to submit their confidential settlement conference statements be continued to June 9, 2015. Geri Green, counsel for Plaintiffs, will be out of the country from May 13 to June 8, 2015, and will not have access to a computer to submit Plaintiffs' statement seven days before the settlement conference as previously ordered. (See ECF No. 218.)

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

Good cause appearing, the parties' stipulated request to continue the May 4, 2015 Settlement Conference is GRANTED.

The Settlement Conference is continued to June 11, 2015, at 10:00 a.m., in Courtroom 25 before Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman. The parties are directed to submit confidential settlement conference statements, pursuant to the provisions of Local Rule 270(d) and (e), by no later than June 9, 2015.

IT IS SO ORDERED.