STIPULATION REGARDING PRETRIAL DATES AND ORDER

HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, Jr., District Judge.

TO THE HONORABLE COURT AND ALL PARTIES AND THEIR COUNSEL OF RECORD:

Pursuant to the Court's Order dated March 18, 2015, Plaintiffs Richard Weil and Soodabeh Shakerin (collectively, "Plaintiffs") and Defendants Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and Raissa Demay (collectively, "Defendants"), by and through the parties' respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate as follows:

WHEREAS, the Hon. Vince Chhabria of this Court previously set the following pretrial and trial schedule:

WHEREAS, on February 18, 2015, the Court reassigned this case to Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. as the presiding judge in this matter;

WHEREAS, the parties have been diligent in conducting discovery, including without limitation serving and responding to multiple sets of written discovery, exchanging various sets of documents and scheduling depositions of the parties and certain witnesses;

WHEREAS, due to the parties' and their counsels' scheduling issues (including the fact that Defendants' lead counsel was unavailable due to a family health emergency and a trial in another matter and that Defendants' new lead counsel, who appeared in this matter to prevent undue delay, needed some time to familiarize himself with this matter), the parties need additional time to conduct remaining discovery, prepare motions and otherwise prepare this matter for trial;

WHEREAS, the parties also have scheduled a private mediation for April 24, 2015, and the date has been confirmed by all parties and the private mediator;

WHEREAS, the parties intend to focus their time and resources toward that mediation—including without limitation conducting key discovery (including depositions), resolving certain (but not all) discovery issues, and preparing mediation briefs—all in a good faith effort to resolve this matter informally; and

WHEREAS, the current deadlines will interfere with the parties' ability to focus the remaining discovery issues toward a good faith mediation and will force the parties to expend resources that could be dedicated toward that mediation, and the unnecessary expenditure of such resources could create roadblocks to an informal resolution.

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereby stipulate and request that, based on good cause set forth above, the Court continue all pretrial and trial dates to the following proposed dates, or to dates thereafter based on the Court's availability:

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

Pursuant to the parties' Stipulation and good cause having been established, the Court grants the parties' request to continue the current discovery and motion deadlines and sets the case schedule as follows:

All other deadlines in this matter set by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local Rules shall be based on the dates above, as applicable.

IT IS SO ORDERED.