EDWARD M. CHEN, District Judge.
Pursuant to Civil Local Rules 6-2 and 7-12, the parties — lead plaintiff KBC Asset Management NV ("Lead Plaintiff") and defendants LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc., John Barbour, and Raymond L. Arthur ("Defendants") — by and through their undersigned counsel of record, submit the following stipulation and proposed order:
WHEREAS, on multiple occasions the Court has granted the parties' stipulated request to continue the scheduled Initial Case Management Conference so that it was held at the same time as hearings on Defendants' motions to dismiss (Dkt. Nos. 49, 69, 96, 99, 108), and on April 18, 2017, the Court granted the parties stipulated request to extend the deadline to submit a proposed premediation discovery plan (Dkt. No. 124);
WHEREAS, the parties have agreed to engage the Honorable James Ware (Ret.) to preside over a private mediation of this action;
WHEREAS, Judge Ware is unavailable during the last two weeks of June and the month of July;
WHEREAS, the parties and third parties are currently in the process of gathering documents for production in accordance with the Joint Pre-Mediation Discovery Plan submitted on April 27, 2017 (Dkt. No. 127);
WHEREAS, the parties have conferred and agreed, subject to Court approval, that: (i) the deadline to conduct private mediation should be continued to September 7, 2017; (ii) the deadline to file an updated joint case management statement should be extended to September 7, 2017; and (iii) the case management conference should be continued to September 14, 2017 at 1:30 p.m., or to another time convenient to the Court;
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree and stipulate that:
(i) the deadline to conduct private mediation is continued to September 7, 2017;
(ii) the deadline to file an updated joint case management statement is continued to September 7, 2017; and
(iii) the case management conference is continued to September 14, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m., or to another time convenient to the Court.
I, Matthew S. Melamed, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this Stipulation and [Proposed] Order to Extend the Mediation Deadline and Continue the Case Management Conference. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest that Mark R.S. Foster has concurred in this filing.
PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.