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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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ORDER RE SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE 

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UNITED 

STATES 

DISTRICT 

COURT

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

MALAQUIAS REYNOSO, et al.,

Plaintiff(s),

v.

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN

FRANCISCO, et al.,

Defendant(s).

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No. C 10-00984 SI (LB)

ORDER REGARDING SETTLEMENT

CONFERENCE

The parties have a settlement conference set for Friday, January 11, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. The

court directs them to submit the following information required by the court’s order on settlement

conference statements. See Order, ECF No. 88. The information may be submitted by email to the

court’s orders box at lbpo@cand.uscourts.gov, and it must be submitted by the deadlines set forth

below.

First, the court has no updated settlement papers by Plaintiffs even though the court’s order

required those papers by Friday, January 4, 2012. Plaintiffs may rely on their previous submissions

in 2011 but they must submit an updated statement with any new information as soon as possible

and no later than Monday, January 7, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., directly to chambers or by email to the

orders box. Plaintiffs need not reiterate any information in the previous statements from 2011. 

Plaintiffs must include their fees and costs to date and projected through trial, and they must make a

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specific demand to each defendant as discussed below. Fees and costs may be submitted

confidentially (and so may any other information that Plaintiffs want to share confidentially). 

Second, the defendants must submit their fees and costs to date and projected through trial by

Monday, January 7, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., and they may do so confidentially by email to the orders

box.

Third, Plaintiffs must ensure that someone is available at the settlement conference to translate

real-time to Plaintiffs. 

Fourth, Plaintiffs must make a demand to each defendant no later than close of business on

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 and must cc the court by email to the court’s orders box. Before

making that demand, Plaintiffs’ counsel must meet in person with Plaintiffs, review the discovery to

date (including that from the depositions), and translate the defendants’ settlement papers to them

starting with the United States’ papers (which contain a chronology of the evidence). 

Fifth, the defendants must respond to the demand (and it is not enough to reject it) with a

specific amount (whatever it is) by 3 p.m. on Thursday, January 10, 2013, and must cc the court’s

orders box.

Sixth, the court observes that the deadline for filing dispositive motions is January 11, 2013,

which is the date of the settlement conference. Both defendants have reiterated in their publiclyfiled case management conference statements their intent to file dispositive motions. The court

urges them to provide even courtesy copies of any filings as soon as possible to Plaintiffs (even if

the filings are later finalized in slightly different form). Plaintiffs’ counsel must translate these

documents to the clients as soon as possible and preferably (depending upon receipt of them) before

making the demand contemplated by this order. If the timing does not permit a pre-demand

translation, then Plaintiffs must do it before the settlement conference. If it is not possible to do the

translation before Friday, January 11, 2013, then Plaintiffs are ordered to meet in the federal

building on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 9:00 a.m., either in a private conference room in the

attorney’s lounge on the 18th floor, or in the court’s witness room across from the courtroom on the

15th floor. Any logistical questions may be posed to the undersigned’s courtroom deputy, Lashanda

Scott, at 415-522-3140.

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Seventh, failure to comply with any of these requirements will result in the court’s vacating and

resetting the settlement conference now set for January 11, 2013. The public record reveals that the

parties are contemplating consent to a magistrate judge for trial (and possibly dispositive motions),

and that means that there is sufficient time to conduct a settlement conference. Conversely, a

settlement conference will not be productive unless Plaintiffs comply with these modest

requirements.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 6, 2013 

LAUREL BEELER

United States Magistrate Judge

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