JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO POSTPONE MOTION TO DISMISS HEARING DATE

ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE, District Judge.

Plaintiff Stamatia Marr ("Plaintiff") and Defendant Troella Tyznik ("Defendant") (collectively, the "Parties") hereby stipulate and agree, and request the Court to order, as follows.

This case involves a dispute between two sisters. Plaintiff filed her complaint in Napa County Superior Court on August 29, 2013. Defendant removed the case to this Court on January 21, 2014. Defendant filed her motion to dismiss the Complaint on January 28, 2014. The motion to dismiss is fully briefed and scheduled to be heard before this Court on March 11, 2014.

The Parties wish to explore early settlement. The parties have agreed to mediation and are in the process of selecting a mediator.

The Parties are thus in agreement that postponing the motion to dismiss hearing until after the Parties mediate is both cost-effective and in the interests of judicial efficiency. The Parties further agree that postponing the hearing by at least 60 days will be beneficial to potentially reaching an early settlement.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, by and between the undersigned counsel for the Parties, that:

The motion to dismiss hearing currently scheduled for March 11, 2014 be postponed at least 60 days from that date.

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Motion to Dismiss hearing currently scheduled for March 11, 2014 is continued to May ___,6 2014 at 9:00 a.m.