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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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United States District Court 

Northern District of Californi

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CORY NAROG, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CITY OF REDWOOD CITY, et al., 

Defendants. 

Case No. 13-cv-03237-DMR 

ORDER 

The parties have attended three settlement conferences before Judge Beeler. The first 

settlement conference, held on December 8, 2014, lasted seven hours and thirty minutes. See 

Docket No. 88. The second settlement conference, held on February 6, 2015, lasted five hours. 

See Docket No. 98. The parties attended a third settlement conference before Judge Beeler on 

March 31, 2015, during which the case settled. See Docket No. 115. The settlement conference 

was attended by all parties and counsel. It lasted five hours. At the conclusion, the parties 

indicated that they reached a full settlement and submitted a stipulated dismissal with prejudice, 

which this court signed. Docket Nos. 113, 114. All parties signed the settlement agreement. 

Plaintiff has now filed an “Opposition,” stating that Plaintiff “disput[es] the settlement 

conference” because he was “intimidated and coerced into signing a [settlement] against his best 

interest,” “unable to make any decisions because of the medications and disabilities [he] was 

enduring at the time,” and “prevented from consulting with another person for advice and . . . 

denied additional time to review the documents and terms.” Docket No. 116. 

Prior to the settlement conference, on March 20, 2015, this court conducted an ex parte

hearing on a motion by Plaintiff’s counsel to withdraw from this case. Plaintiff and his counsel, 

but no other parties or counsel, attended the ex parte hearing. Without revealing the contents of 

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