Filed: Mar. 17, 2014
Latest Update: Mar. 17, 2014
Summary: ORDER JERRY W. CAVANEAU, Magistrate Judge. This case is set for a settlement conference on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. I note the parties have scheduled a private mediation in Memphis for March 26, 2014, one week earlier. (CM/ECF doc. 60) If the private mediation is unsuccessful, it seems unlikely that a settlement conference a week later, with no additional discovery, would bear fruit. Settlement conferences in this district are not mandatory, and are set only on request of the parties. I cer
Summary: ORDER JERRY W. CAVANEAU, Magistrate Judge. This case is set for a settlement conference on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. I note the parties have scheduled a private mediation in Memphis for March 26, 2014, one week earlier. (CM/ECF doc. 60) If the private mediation is unsuccessful, it seems unlikely that a settlement conference a week later, with no additional discovery, would bear fruit. Settlement conferences in this district are not mandatory, and are set only on request of the parties. I cert..
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ORDER
JERRY W. CAVANEAU, Magistrate Judge.
This case is set for a settlement conference on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. I note the parties have scheduled a private mediation in Memphis for March 26, 2014, one week earlier. (CM/ECF doc. 60)
If the private mediation is unsuccessful, it seems unlikely that a settlement conference a week later, with no additional discovery, would bear fruit. Settlement conferences in this district are not mandatory, and are set only on request of the parties. I certainly do not want to preclude a conference, but am reluctant to subject the parties to unproductive expense, or counsel and the Court to the expenditure of time and effort, unless there is a reasonable possibility of success.
Counsel must confer and inform the Court no later than Thursday, March 20, 2014, whether all parties want to proceed with the settlement conference on April 2, 2014. If not, I will cancel the conference. If all wish to proceed, I will be glad to hold the conference as scheduled. I would also stand ready to reschedule if you feel a later conference would have a better chance of success.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
