RICHARD SEEBORG, District Judge.
Plaintiffs MICHELE SMITH, acting on her own behalf and as Guardian ad Litem for M.M., ("Plaintiffs") and Defendants TOBINWORLD, SARA FORGHANI, ANDREW ALTES, and ANTIOCH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (hereinafter "AUSD"), through their undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate as follows:
WHEREAS, counsel for Plaintiffs and the counsel for Defendants AUSD, SARAH FORGHANI, and TOBINWORLD are also involved in a similar case currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entitled Calloway, et al. v. Oakland Unified School District, et al., USDC Case No. 3:16-cv-6942-CRB (hereinafter the "Calloway matter");
WHEREAS, all parties wish to schedule a settlement conference before a Magistrate Judge wherein both this matter and the Calloway matter may be mediated together;
WHEREAS, in the Calloway matter, on April 7, 2017, the court issued a minute order directing counsel to submit a stipulation and proposed order referring both Calloway matter and the instant case to a Magistrate Judge for a settlement conference (Doc No. 55);
WHEREAS, the parties have met and conferred by email and have agreed that they would like to participate in a settlement conference before Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley;
Thus, the parties jointly respectfully request that the Court refer this matter to a settlement conference before a Magistrate Judge Corley wherein the parties may also discuss settlement of the Calloway matter.
Having read and considered the Joint Stipulation and [Proposed] Order For Referral to Magistrate Judge for Settlement Conference and good cause appearing, it is hereby ordered that this matter be referred to a settlement conference before Magistrate Judge Corley. At the settlement conference, counsel should also be prepared to discuss the parties' settlement positions in Calloway matter, per the April 7, 2017, minute order of Judge Breyer.