STIPULATION TO ALTER SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

CAM FERENBACH, Magistrate Judge.

WHEREAS, a settlement conference has been scheduled in the above referenced case to take place at 10:00 a.m. on November 10, 2016; and

WHEREAS, all litigation for Defendant RALHS GROCERY COMPANY d/b/a FOOD 4 LESS is overseen and controlled by the home office of The Kroger Co. (a "grandparent" corporation to RALPHS) from its office in Cincinnati, Ohio and has advised that it does not have a representative available to attend the conference at the scheduled time but could make a person available to participate telephonically from its home office;

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between JERRY S. BUSBY, ESQ., of COOPER LEVENSON, P.A., as counsel for Defendant RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY d/b/a FOOD 4 LESS, and CHRISTIAN M. MORRIS, ESQ. of the NETTLES LAW FIRM, as counsel for Plaintiff DEBRA ROCHA that Defendant be allowed to participate telephonically in the settlement conference.

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED that if this Court deems it necessary to have Defendant attend in person, the parties jointly request that the conference be continued to take place on December 6, 2016, December 8, 2016 or December 13, 2016.

(initial one)

__________ IT IS ORDERED that the settlement conference proceed as scheduled on November 10, 2016 and that Defendant be allowed to participate telephonically. 10:00 a.m.,

✓ IT IS ORDERED that the settlement conference be continued to December 6, 2016 so that Defendant must have a representative present at the conference.