FIFTH STIPULATION TO EXTEND DEFENDANT'S TIME TO RESPOND TO COMPLAINT PURSUANT TO N.D. L.R. 6-1

JOSEPH C. SPERO, District Judge.

Plaintiff GEORGE VON BOZZAY ("Plaintiff") and Defendant NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC ("Defendant") hereby stipulate and agree as follows:

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed the complaint initiating the above-referenced action on July 22, 2015;

WHEREAS, Plaintiff served the complaint on Defendant on July 24, 2015;

WHEREAS, based on the July 24, 2015 service date, Defendant's deadline to respond to the complaint was originally August 14, 2015;

WHEREAS, on or about August 14, 2015, the parties stipulated to extend Defendant's deadline to respond to the complaint to August 28, 2015;

WHEREAS, on August 14, 2015, the Court issued an Order referring the case to the ADR Unit for an assessment telephone conference on September 11, 2015;

WHEREAS, August 25, 2015, the parties stipulated to extend Defendant's deadline to respond to the complaint to September 28, 2015.

WHEREAS, on September 11, 2015, the parties attended the ADR teleconference and in light of the parties existing efforts to determine whether there may be the potential for an informal resolution, a further teleconference was scheduled for October 29, 2015. The parties appeared but the ADR Program representative did not join.

WHEREAS, on or about September 15, 2015 the parties stipulated to extend Defendant's deadline to respond to the complaint to October 28, 2015;

WHEREAS, on or about October 21, 2015, the parties stipulated to extend Defendant's deadline to respond to the complaint to November 27, 2015;

WHEREAS, on November 6, 2015, the parties attended a case management conference at which time the Court referred the parties to another ADR Program phone conference to occur within sixty (60) days and set a further case management conference for February 12, 2016.

WHEREAS, an ADR Program phone conference has been scheduled for December 16, 2015.

WHEREAS, no trial schedule has been set.

WHEREAS, the parties continue to explore whether there may be the potential for an informal resolution;

WHEREAS, in order to continue in these informal resolution discussions, reduce the costs of litigation for all parties, and unburden the Court's docket, counsel for the parties' have met and conferred and agreed to a further thirty (30) day extension of the deadline for Defendant to respond to the complaint. This is the parties' fifth such stipulation.

Based on the foregoing and pursuant to N.D. Local Rule 6-1, it is hereby STIPULATED: Defendant shall have up to and including December 28, 2015 to respond to the complaint.