STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RESCHEDULING MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE AND EXTENDING CASE SCHEDULE

EDWARD J. DAVILA, District Judge.

The parties hereto, by and through their undersigned counsel, stipulate and agree as follows:

1. The parties are currently scheduled to appear for a settlement conference with Magistrate Judge Maria Elena James on December 17, 2014. However, the claims representative for the County of Santa Cruz has had an unresolvable conflict arise on that date, in that he is required to appear at an all-day mediation in another large, multi-party case.

2. The parties have met and conferred on this issue, and have agreed to request a continuance of the settlement conference in this matter in light of the aforementioned conflict. Judge James' calendar clerk is holding the date of February 6, 2015 for the parties, pending approval of this stipulation. This date is the first available date on Judge James' calendar, and it has been pre-cleared by the undersigned counsel as well as their respective clients and client representatives.

3. The parties also request that the current case schedule (Docket #50) be extended by 60 days. The reason for the requested extension is to allow the parties to preserve resources prior to the settlement conference, but still allow some time to conduct additional discovery to prepare for dispositive motions and trial in the event the case does not settle. This is the parties' second request for an extension of the case schedule. The new proposed schedule is set forth in the order below.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

The Court having considered the parties' stipulation, and good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the parties' settlement conference with Magistrate Judge Maria Elena James be rescheduled to February 6, 2015, at 10:00 a.m.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the current case schedule be extended 60 days. The new case schedule shall be as follows: