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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MARK DAVID PERCIN, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF 

AMERICA, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:14-cv-2899 JAM AC (PS) 

ORDER 

 The parties have stipulated to have this matter referred to the court’s Voluntary Dispute 

Resolution Program (“VDRP”), pursuant to E.D. Cal. R. (“Local Rule”) 271. See ECF No. 17. 

However, the VDRP procedures are not generally used where, as here, a party is proceeding pro 

se. See Local Rule 271(a)(2) (VDRP rule “presumptively applies to all civil actions” except 

“actions in which one of the parties is appearing pro se”). 

 Accordingly, the court will not approve the stipulation. Instead, the scheduled status 

conference, scheduled for May 20, 2015, at 10:00 a.m., will go forward. The parties shall be 

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prepared to discuss at that conference the possibility of an early settlement conference before a 

magistrate judge. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: May 6, 2015 

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