STIPULATION AND ORDER TO RESCHEDULE HEARING ON MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT AND TO SET BRIEFING SCHEDULE

HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, Jr., District Judge.

STIPULATION

The parties stipulate to the following.

Plaintiffs filed the Complaint in this action on July 24, 2014. Defendant answered the Complaint on August 29, 2014.

On December 1, 2014, the Court (Hon. J. White) granted Defendant's former counsel's motion to withdraw and ordered Defendant to file a substitution of counsel form by February 13, 2015. On June 11, 2015, Plaintiffs filed a Motion for Default Judgment ("Motion"), pursuant to an order by this Court to do so because Defendant had not filed a substitution of counsel by February 13, 2015. The initial deadline to file the Motion by April 1, 2015, was extended to April 15, 2015, and then extended to June 11, 2015. The Motion is set for hearing on August 13, 2015.

Defendant retained new counsel to advise it regarding this action in approximately March 2015 and that counsel filed a Notice of Appearance on June 25, 2015. Defendant, if necessary, will oppose the Motion.

The parties have agreed that it would be helpful to their efforts to exchange information and to have productive discussions about resolving this matter if they could focus their time and attention to those efforts over approximately the next month, instead of on further briefing of the Motion. The parties also wish to avoid unnecessarily asking this Court to review briefing on the Motion and to hear argument on the Motion.

The parties therefore request that this Court reschedule the hearing on the Motion to September 17, 2015, or to the next soonest date that is convenient to the Court. The parties also request that this Court set August 3, 2015, as the due date for any opposition to the Motion and set August 17, 2015, as the due date for any reply in support of the Motion.

ORDER

On Stipulation of the parties, dated June 26, 2015, and for good cause shown, the Court orders the following: