STIPULATED REQUEST TO EXTEND TIME TO COMPLETE SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

EDWARD M. CHEN, District Judge.

The current scheduling order in this matter requires completion of the settlement conference before the end of February 2013. A settlement conference before the Honorable Laurel Beeler has been scheduled for this matter to occur on February 22, 2012. However, two of the plaintiffs in this matter are scheduled to go to trial beginning February 19, 2013, in a matter pending in this district before the Honorable Paul Grewal. A continuance of the current settlement conference is necessary to avoid the potential conflict that would arise if the trial before Judge Grewal proceeds through February 22, 2012.

The parties have contacted Judge Beeler's courtroom, which has informed the parties that March 8, 2013 is available for a rescheduled conference date. All parties are available on that date. However, because the current scheduling order requires that the settlement conference be completed before February 2013, an order of this Court extending the deadline by which the conference must be completed is necessary in order to permit the parties to move the settlement conference to that date.

For the foregoing reasons, all parties jointly request that the Court issue an order extending the deadline to complete the settlement conference to include March 2013, to allow the parties to confirm a March 8, 2013 settlement conference date before Judge Beeler.

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Good cause having been shown, the parties' Stipulated Request to Extend Time to Complete Settlement Conference is GRANTED. The deadline for the parties to complete the Settlement Conference in this matter is extended to include March 15, 2013. The Further CMC is reset from March 7, 2013 to March 28, 2013 at 10:30 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.