MAXINE M. CHESNEY, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Restoration Hardware, Inc. and RH US, LLC ("Plaintiffs") and Defendant Houzz Inc. ("Defendant") stipulate and respectfully request the Court to extend certain dates in the schedule set by the Court in its Pretrial Preparation Order (Dkt. No. 27) and in its Order to Extend Certain Pretrial Dates (Dkt. No 41). In support of their request, the parties state as follows:
WHEREAS, the parties appeared before this Court for a scheduling conference on May 6, 2016;
WHEREAS, the Court set certain dates for the parties' pretrial schedule;
WHEREAS, the parties have held on-going discussions regarding settlement and attended a mediation on September 15, 2016 to discuss settlement;
WHEREAS, the parties stipulated to extend certain pretrial dates and the Court granted the extension on September 22, 2016 (Dkt. No. 41);
WHEREAS, since that time the parties have continued to discuss settlement and have agreed to arrange a second session with a private mediator;
WHEREAS, due to scheduling conflicts the parties cannot hold this mediation session until later in November;
WHEREAS, the parties are actively engaged in discovery;
WHEREAS, the parties have agreed to extend certain pretrial dates to permit the parties to engage in further settlement discussions with a private mediator and, if necessary, to complete fact and expert discovery; and
WHEREAS, there have been three previous extensions of time in this matter extending (i) Defendant's time to answer (Dkt. No. 10), (ii) the Parties' deadline by which to complete mediation (Dkt. No. 31), and (iii) certain pretrial dates (Dkt. No. 41) and the stipulated extension does not affect the scheduled trial date,
Based on the foregoing, the parties stipulate and respectfully request that this Court extend certain pretrial dates as follows:
I, Jennifer Lee Taylor, am the ECF user whose ID and password are being used to file this Joint Stipulation to Extend Time to Respond to Complaint. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest that Jennifer A. Golinveaux has concurred in this filing.
The Parties' stipulated request to extend certain pretrial deadlines is hereby GRANTED: