STIPULATION REQUESTING REFERRAL TO THE NOTHERN DISTRICT COURT ADR MEDIATION PROGRAM AND DECLINING SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE WITH MAGISTRATE JUDGE and ORDER

SAUNDRA B. ARMSTRONG, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Sandra Hatfield and Maureen Patricia Murphy ("Plaintiffs") and Defendant Renal Treatment Centers — California, Inc., erroneously sued as DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. ("Defendant"), by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate and request as follows:

1. WHEREAS, the parties attended a telephone case management conference on Wednesday, September 10, 2014;

2. WHEREAS, this Court recommended that the parties attend a settlement conference with a Northern District Magistrate Judge and ordered the parties to submit a joint statement indicating their preference for a magistrate judge by September 17, 2014;

3. WHEREAS, the parties have carefully considered the settlement conference process and concluded they would prefer to attend mediation with either ADR panelist mediator Kathryn Dickson or Judith Droz Keyes;

4. WHEREAS, the parties respectfully request that this Court refer the parties back to the Northern District ADR Program for mediation and request that the ADR Program appoint one of the parties' agreed upon mediators;

THEREFORE,

The parties hereby submit this stipulation and respectfully request that this Court refer the parties back to the Northern District ADR Program to participate in mediation before ADR panelist mediator Kathryn Dickson or Judith Droz Keyes, and respectfully decline to participate in a settlement conference before a Magistrate Judge.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

The Court, having considered the Parties' stipulation, hereby grants the parties' request and refers the parties back to the Northern District ADR Program to participate in mediation before ADR panelist mediator Kathryn Dickson or Judith Droz Keyes. The Parties' December 15, 2014 deadline to submit a joint case management statement remains unchanged.

IT IS SO ORDERED.