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Nature of Suit Code: 310
Nature of Suit: Airplane Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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Richard G. Grotch, Esq. - SBN 127713

CODDINGTON, HICKS & DANFORTH

A Professional Corporation, Lawyers

555 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 300

Redwood City, California 94065-2133

Telephone: (650) 592-5400

Facsimile: (650) 592-5027

E-mail: rgrotch@chdlawyers.com

ATTORNEYS FOR Defendant

JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORPORATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

PATRICE MORSE,

Plaintiff,

vs.

JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORPORATION,

and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive,

Defendants.

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Case No. C 09-2036 JW (PVT)

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER REGARDING ADR

WHEREAS counsel for the parties met and conferred in advance of the ADR Phone

Conference to discuss the form of ADR which might best facilitate a resolution of this case; and

WHEREAS counselfor the parties agreed that an early settlement conference with a Magistrate

Judge appeared to be the most likely ADR process to facilitate a resolution of the case, particularly

given the nature of the claims and, even more so, the claimant; and

WHEREAS counsel for the parties participated in an ADR Phone Conference on December

28, 2009, in which Howard A. Herman, Director of the Court’s ADR Unit, concurred with counsel’s

assessment that an early settlement conference with a Magistrate Judge was appropriate in this case;

and,

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Stipulation Regarding ADR

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

AS MODIFIED

Judge James Ware

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CODDINGTON, HICKS

& DANFORTH

A Professional Corp., Lawyers

555 Twin Dolphin Drive, #300

Redwood City, CA 94065

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WHEREAS counsel for the parties discussed those Magistrate Judges they had identified as

being particularly well-suited to resolution of this controversy and to the personalities of the parties,

if the Court were to order an early settlement conference with a Magistrate Judge, that either Chief

Magistrate Judge James or Magistrate Judge Laporte be considered to conduct the early settlement

conference;

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between plaintiff PATRICE MORSE and defendant

JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORPORATION, through their counsel of record, that the Court be asked

to enter an order referring this matter for an early settlement conference with a Magistrate Judge,

to be conducted in approximately three to four months, and to request that if such an order were to

be entered, that either Chief Magistrate Judge James or Magistrate Judge Laporte be considered to

conduct the early settlement conference.

SO STIPULATED.

Dated: December 29, 2009 LAW OFFICE OF ARKADY ITKIN

/s/ Arkady Itkin

By:

Arkady Itkin

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Patrice Morse

Dated: December 29, 2009 CODDINGTON, HICKS & DANFORTH

/s/ Richard G. Grotch

By:

Richard G. Grotch (*)

Attorneys for Defendant

JetBlue Airways Corporation

(*) I hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures

for any signatures indicated by a “conformed” signature (/s/)

within this e-filed document.

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Stipulation Regarding ADR

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CODDINGTON, HICKS

& DANFORTH

A Professional Corp., Lawyers

555 Twin Dolphin Drive, #300

Redwood City, CA 94065

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

This matter shall be referred to Magistrate Judge _________________________, for an

early settlement conference to be conducted on a date determined to be convenient for the Court,

which date is in or about March or April of 2010.

Dated: _________________________________________

Honorable James Ware

United States District Judge

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Stipulation Regarding ADR

 The Court finds good cause to refer the parties to a Magistrate Judge for an early settlement 

conference. However, although the parties have requested Chief Magistrate Judge James or Judge 

Laporte, the Court refers this matter to Judge James for a determination of an appropriate assignment. 

Dated: February 9, 2010 ___________________________ 

 JAMES WARE 

 United States District Judge

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