JOINT STIPULATION FOR AN ORDER CONTINUING THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT A PROPOSED JOINT PRETRIAL ORDER; [PROPOSED] ORDER; CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

RICHARD F. BOULWARE, II, District Judge.

Plaintiff United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") and Defendant Wynn Las Vegas, LLC ("Wynn"), by and through their undersigned counsel, stipulate to the following:

1. On September 16, 2016, Plaintiff EEOC filed a complaint alleging that Defendant Wynn violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended by the ADA Amendment Act of 2008 by unlawfully discriminating and retaliating against EEOC's Claimant Soloman Hussey. (ECF No. 1). On November 14, 2016, Defendant Wynn filed its Answer. (ECF No. 5). Subsequently, Defendant filed its Motion for Summary Judgment; and the EEOC filed its Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. (ECF No. 26, 27)

2. On July 10, 2018, the Court denied Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment and the EEOC's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. (Order 17, ECF No. 38). The Court ordered both Parties to be referred to the Magistrate Judge for the purposes of scheduling a settlement conference. (Id.). The Court also ordered the Parties to submit a Proposed Joint Pretrial Order by August 31, 2018.

3. The EEOC and Defendant request for an extension of the deadline to submit a Proposed Pretrial Order for two months from August 31, 2018 to October 31, 2018.

4. The EEOC and Defendant request for an extension of the deadline due to the respective leave schedule of counsel for the remainder of July and August 2018. Defense counsel represents that he will be on leave starting on July 17, 2018 for around two weeks. EEOC's counsel represents that he will be on leave for a week from August 9 through 16, 2018. Factoring in time to allow both Parties to prepare for settlement, including the preparation of the respective settlement briefs, the Parties estimate that a reasonable scheduling of a settlement conference would be no earlier than September 2018.

5. The EEOC and Defendant also request for an extension of the deadline to conserve resources to maximize the chances of settlement. The settlement conference is likely to be scheduled no earlier than September 2018. With the current deadline for the submission of a Proposed Joint Pretrial Order by August 31, 2018, resources and the Parties' attention would need to be diverted to prepare a Proposed Joint Pretrial Order. Such resources may be better served to attempt to settle the case first before preparing for trial.

6. Thus, the Parties request for an Order extending the deadline to submit a Proposed Joint Pretrial Order from August 31, 2018 to October 31, 2018.

[PROPOSED] ORDER UPON STIPULATION

For good cause shown, IT IS SO ORDERED.