JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

EDMUND F. BRENNAN, District Judge.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED BY THE PARTIES. Joel H. Siegal representing Plaintiff. TAKIYA CHANDLER, GAL for minor K.D., and Jeremy Schroeder representing Defendant AMTRAK that the settlement conference initially scheduled for June 19, 2018 should be continued due to a scheduling conflict. Plaintiff's counsel is scheduled for mandatory settlement conference in another matter (17-CIV-00527) on the same date in Superior Court in San Mateo county. Please see attached notice. Counsel inadvertently only calendared the trial date, which was provided on the same notice, and failed to calendar the settlement conference date. Counsel apologizes for the inconvenience this has caused the court and on opposing counsel. As soon as counsel became aware of the scheduling conflict, he notified opposing counsel who then agreed to move the matter to a later date. Good cause exists because the case which involves the scheduling conflict has an upcoming trial date scheduled for July 2, 2018. The only opportunity to settle the matter before trial is on June 19, 2018 at the settlement conference. The matter at hand will not be prejudiced by this continuance since enough time exists to have a settlement conference being that a trial date is scheduled eight months away, on February 25, 2019. Furthermore, two months ago the court directed counsel to obtain medical records, counsel was diligent in requesting said records from Zuckerberg General Hospital but due to an issue with the hospital, such records are still being processed by the hospital. Without those records, a settlement conference may not be as helpful. Parties hereby stipulate to continue settlement conference for September 6, 2018 to be held before Magistrate Brennan.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

PROPOSED ORDER TO CONTINUE SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

ORDER

Good cause appearing, and based upon the stipulation of the parties, the requested continuance of the settlement conference scheduled for June 19, 2018 is granted. The new settlement conference is scheduled for September 6, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.