JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE MEDIATION PROCESS, MEDIATION COMPLETION DATE AND NEXT CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG, District Judge.

1. The parties hereto - Plaintiffs Stuart and Caroline Titus and Defendants Humboldt County Fair Association, John Burger, Jeff Farley and Cindy Olsen - join in this Stipulation to request that the Court allow them to opt in to the Court-sponsored mediation program, move the date for completion of the mediation, and reschedule the Case Management Conference to allow them to first complete initial depositions and the mediation.

2. Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on March 6, 2014. The parties initially agreed to opt out of the Court-sponsored mediation program and proceed with private mediation. By Minute Order dated July 3, 2014, the Court ordered that private mediation be completed by November 7, 2014, that a telephonic Case Management Conference be held on November 9, 2014, and that an updated joint Case Management Statement be filed by November 17, 2014 (Ex. A).

3. The parties have consulted and agreed to complete written discovery over the next six weeks and have set a preliminary deposition schedule for dates during the first two weeks of November. The parties have also discussed mediation, including the costs involved in private mediation, and have decided that they would be best served, if the Court allows it, by opting back into the Court-sponsored mediation program. In order to complete the depositions before the mediation, they would respectfully request that the Court reset the mediation completion date to December 19, 2014. The parties also request that the Court reset the Case Management Conference until after the mediation.

4. Accordingly, the parties hereby respectfully request that: (1) The Court allow them to opt into the Court's mediation program; (2) the Court revise the mediation completion date to December 19, 2014; and (3) the Court delay the Case Management Conference presently scheduled for November 9, 2014 until after the deposition and the mediation.

ORDER

Having considered the Stipulation of the parties, the Court orders that: (1) The parties may opt back into the Court's mediation program; (2) the mediation completion date is reset to December 19, 2014; and (3) the Case Management Conference is rescheduled for January 8, 2015, at 2:45 p.m. The parties shall meet and confer prior to the conference and shall prepare a joint Case Management Conference Statement which shall be filed no later than seven (7) days prior to the Case Management Conference that complies with the Standing Order For All Judges Of The Northern District Of California and the Standing Order of this Court. Plaintiffs shall be responsible for filing the statement as well as for arranging the conference call. All parties shall be on the line and shall call (510) 879-3550 at the above indicated date and time.

IT IS SO ORDERED.