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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EUREKA DIVISION

KELVIN ALLEN, No. 1:09- CV-00729 LJO (NJV) 

Plaintiff, NOTICE AND ORDER SETTING

SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE IN 

v. PRO SE PRISONER EARLY 

SETTLEMENT PROGRAM, REQUIRING

MEYER, et al., MEET AND CONFER, AND SETTING

STATUS CONFERENCE

Defendants.

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TO ALL PARTIES AND COUNSEL OF RECORD:

You are hereby notified that a settlement conference is scheduled in this case for 10:00 a.m.

on October 29, 2015, in Courtroom D of the United States Federal Courthouse at 450 Golden Gate

Avenue in San Francisco. Plaintiff's counsel shall arrange for Plaintiff to be available by telephone. 

Plaintiff shall call into the settlement conference by dialing 888-684-8852 and entering access code

1868782.

Counsel are ORDERED to meet and confer telephonically to discuss settlement of this case

no later than three weeks prior to the settlement conference. The legal representative of the CDCR

must be present at this telephonic meeting.

The matter is HEREBY SET for a telephonic status conference on October 20, 2015, at 1:00

p.m. The parties shall dial 888-684-8852, enter access code 1868782. At the status conference,

Counsel shall report on the outcome of their meeting regarding settlement. 

Lead trial counsel shall appear at the settlement conference, with the parties and persons

having full authority to negotiate and settle the case. A person who needs to call another person

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not present before agreeing to any settlement does not have full authority. To the extent that

such consultations are necessary, they must be made in advance of the settlement conference. 

Personal attendance of a party representative will rarely be excused by the Court, and then

only upon separate written application demonstrating substantial hardship served on opposing

counsel and lodged as early as the basis for the hardship is known.

Confidential settlement conference statements shall be mailed or emailed

(NJVpo@cand.uscourts.gov) to and received by chambers no later than two weeks prior to the

settlement conference. In their settlement conference statements, the parties shall report on the

outcome of their meeting regarding settlement.

Any request to continue the settlement conference shall state the reason therefor and be

submitted in writing as soon as possible well in advance of the scheduled conference date. Requests

to vacate the settlement referral must be made to the referring Judge, not Magistrate Judge Vadas. 

The parties shall notify the undersigned's Chambers immediately at (707) 445-3612 if this

case settles prior to the date set for the settlement conference. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 5, 2015 ________________________________

NANDOR J. VADAS

United States Magistrate Judge

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