STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO EXTEND DEADLINE TO COMPLETE MEDIATION AND TO WITHDRAW FROM THE COURT'S MEDIATION PROGRAM AND PARTICIPATE IN PRIVATE MEDIATION

JON S. TIGAR, District Judge.

Plaintiff Ervan Darnell ("Plaintiff") and Defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("MetLife" or "Defendant") (collectively, "the Parties"), through their respective attorneys, hereby jointly stipulate to extend the deadline to complete mediation from April 20, 2018 until May 31, 2018 and to withdraw from the court's mediation program and instead participate in private mediation. As grounds for this order, the Parties stipulate as follows:

1. Good cause exists for an extension of the mediation deadline. The current deadline to complete mediation is April 20, 2018. The parties scheduled the mediation session for April 16, 2018 with R. Bradford Huss, Esq., a panel mediator, a date MetLife's representative located in New York is only available by telephone. The Court denied MetLife's request for leave to participate in the mediation by telephone.

2. The Parties have now decided that they would prefer to participate in a mediation with a private mediator. They have scheduled a mediation for May 9, 2018 with Adrienne Publicover, Esq., of JAMS.

FILER'S ATTESTATION-Local Rule 5.1(i)(3)

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that (1) the deadline to complete the mediation is extended from April 20, 2018 to May 9, 2018 and (2) the case is withdrawn from the court's mediation program.