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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IDEAPROS, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

SCOTT SANBORN,

Defendant.

Case No.: 3:19-cv-2307-JAH-AHG

ORDER MODIFYING EARLY 

NEUTRAL EVALUATION AND 

CASE MANAGEMENT 

CONFERENCE TO BE 

TELEPHONIC AND ISSUING 

UPDATED PROCEDURES

On February 11, 2020, the Court scheduled the Early Neutral Evaluation (“ENE”) 

and Case Management Conference (“CMC”) in this matter for April 24, 2020 at 9:30 a.m.

ECF No. 7. In accordance with the Local Rules, the Court required personal attendance of 

all parties, party representatives, including claims adjusters for insured defendants, and the 

primary attorney(s) responsible for the litigation. Id. at 2. On March 17, 2020, Chief Judge 

Larry A. Burns issued an Order in response to the COVID-19 public emergency 

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(“CJO #18”)1 which, among other things, suspends the requirement under Civil Local Rule 

16.1(a) that ENEs be conducted in person to protect public safety and prevent the spread 

of COVID-19. See CJO #18 at ¶ 9. Accordingly, the Court MODIFIES the ENE and CMC

to be telephonic for all attendees. To facilitate this modification, the Court hereby 

ORDERS as follows:

1. Counsel and parties or client representatives with full settlement authority 

for each party must be immediately available by telephone between the hours of 

9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on April 24, 2020. 

2. Throughout this window of time, the Court will initiate separate, confidential 

calls with Plaintiff and Defendant, respectively. Each party must provide the Court with a 

single phone number to use to initiate these calls, with both counsel and parties or 

representatives already conferenced in and ready to engage in settlement discussions. 

Counsel must contact the Court at efile_goddard@casd.uscourts.gov no later than 

April 21, 2020 to provide each party’s preferred phone number for the ENE and CMC, and 

any other necessary call-in information for the Court (i.e., conference line passcodes).

3. All participants shall be prepared to devote their full attention to this 

proceeding as if they were attending in person, i.e., cannot be driving while speaking to the 

Court.

4. If the case does not settle through the telephonic ENE process, the Court will 

hold the CMC on its chambers teleconference line at 1-877-873-8018 after concluding the 

ENE calls. If and when the Court determines settlement is not possible, the Court will 

notify counsel for each side to call in to the teleconference line for the CMC at the 

appropriate time. Counsel must use the access code 8367902 to join the CMC.

 

1 CJO #18 is available on the Court website at 

https://www.casd.uscourts.gov/_assets/pdf/rules/Order%20of%20the%20Chief%20Judge

%2018.pdf.

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5. All dates, deadlines, procedures, and requirements set forth in the Court’s 

Order Setting ENE and CMC (ECF No. 7) remain in place, except as explicitly modified 

by this order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 8, 2020

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