STIPULATED REQUEST TO EXTEND DEADLINES IN THIS ACTION OTHER THAN THE TRIAL DATE

SUSAN ILLSTON, District Judge.

WHEREAS, the parties are interested in exploring settlement options for this litigation;

WHEREAS, the parties requested referral to a magistrate judge for settlement conference pursuant to ADR L.R. 7-1, and were assigned to Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu;

WHEREAS, due to the schedules of the parties and Judge Ryu, the first available settlement conference date is May 9, 2016;

WHEREAS, the parties hope to resolve this matter prior to filing summary judgment motions and therefore seek to move the April 29, 2016 dispositive motion deadline to after the settlement conference date;

WHEREAS, the parties have recently taken physician depositions relevant to the case and have not yet received the transcripts of those depositions, which need to be reviewed by expert witnesses in this action;

WHEREAS, the parties therefore also seek to move out the expert witness deadlines to permit the deposition transcripts to be used by the witnesses;

WHEREAS. Plaintiff's counsel will be out of the country on the scheduled date of the pretrial conference, July 19, 2016 and the parties therefore ask the Court to continue that conference;

WHEREAS, the parties have twice stipulated to move the trial date in this action; however this stipulation does not seek to reschedule the August 15, 2016 trial date;

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED between the parties, by and through their respective counsel of record, that the parties respectfully ask this Court adopt the following schedule:

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

The filer of this document attests that concurrence in this filing has been obtained from all signatories.

IT IS SO ORDERED.