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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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APPLICATION & [PROPOSED] ORDER EXCUSING PLAINTIFF RAYMOND A. GREEN’S 

PERSONAL ATTENDANCE FROM SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE; Case No. 3:12-cv-05933-JSC

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LAW OFFICES

COTCHETT, PITRE 

& MCCARTHY, LLP

Steven N. Williams (175489)

Elizabeth Tran (280502)

COTCHETT PITRE & McCARTHY LLP

840 Malcolm Road, Suite 200

Burlingame, CA 94010

Telephone: (650) 697-6000

Facsimile: (650) 697-0577

swilliams@cpmlegal.com

etran@cpmlegal.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff Raymond A. Green

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

RAYMOND A. GREEN, E68189,

Plaintiff,

v.

B. AGUIRRE, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 3:12-cv-05933-JSC

APPLICATION & [PROPOSED] ORDER 

EXCUSING PLAINTIFF RAYMOND A. 

GREEN’S PERSONAL ATTENDANCE

FROM SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

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Counsel for Plaintiff Raymond A. Green submits this application to excuse Mr. Green’s 

personal attendance from the settlement conference before Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero on 

March 9, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Pursuant to Magistrate Judge Spero’s Notice of Settlement Conference 

and Settlement Conference Order, “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 but 

no later than the Settlement Conference Statement” (ECF No. 95). 

Counsel for Plaintiff previously discussed this issue with defense counsel and requested 

Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley waive the attendance requirement for Mr. Green given 

that Plaintiff is currently a prisoner at Wasco State Prison in Wasco, California and attendance 

would pose a substantial hardship (ECF No. 94). Counsel for Plaintiff has coordinated with Wasco 

State Prison’s Litigation Coordinator, however, to make Plaintiff available by phone during the 

settlement conference, if necessary. The Litigation Coordinator, Tracy Jackson, represented to 

counsel for Plaintiff that counsel for Plaintiff may call her during the settlement conference, and she 

can connect counsel for Plaintiff to Mr. Green. She stated that Mr. Green cannot attend the entire 

settlement conference by phone due to limited staffing and resource issues at Wasco State Prison.

Counsel for Plaintiff therefore renew their request to excuse Mr. Green’s personal attendance 

from the settlement conference before Magistrate Judge Spero.

Dated: March 3, 2016 Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Elizabeth Tran

Joseph W. Cotchett (36324)

Elizabeth Tran (280502)

Joyce Chang (300780)

COTCHETT PITRE & McCARTHY LLP

840 Malcolm Road, Suite 200

Burlingame, CA 94010

Telephone: (650) 697-6000

Facsimile: (650) 697-0577

jcotchett@cpmlegal.com

etran@cpmlegal.com

jchang@cpmlegal.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff Raymond A. Green

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

The above APPLICATION EXCUSING PLAINTIFF RAYMOND A. GREEN’S

PERSONAL ATTENDANCE FROM SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE is approved.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March __, 2016 _________________________________

JOSEPH C. SPERO 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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Judge Joseph C. Spero

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