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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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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EUREKA DIVISION

RICK MADSEN,

Plaintiff,

v.

SUE E. RISENHOOVER, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 09-cv-05457-SBA (NJV)

ORDER SETTING SETTLEMENT 

CONFERENCE IN PRO SE PRISONER 

SETTLEMENT PROGRAM, SETTING 

STATUS CONFERENCE AND 

REQUIRING MEET AND CONFER

Re: Dkt. No. 242

TO ALL PARTIES AND COUNSEL OF RECORD:

You are hereby notified that a settlement conference is scheduled in this case for 10:00 

a.m. on September 24, 2015. The settlement conference will be conducted via video conferencing, 

with Counsel appearing from Courtroom D on the 15th floor of the United States Courthouse in 

San Francisco, and the Court appearing from Eureka. 

Counsel are ORDERED to meet and confer telephonically to discuss settlement of this 

case. The legal representative of the CDCR must be present at this telephonic meeting.

The matter is HEREBY SET for a telephonic status conference on September 8, 2015, at 

1:00 p.m. The parties shall dial 888-684-8852 and enter access code 1868782 to attend the status 

conference. At the status conference, the parties shall report on the outcome of their meeting 

regarding settlement. 

Lead trial counsel shall appear at the settlement conference with the parties and persons 

having full authority to negotiate and settle the case. A person who needs to call another person 

not present before agreeing to any settlement does not have full authority. To the extent that such 

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consultations are necessary, they must be made in advance of the settlement conference. 

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.

Confidential settlement conference statements shall be mailed or emailed 

(NJVpo@cand.uscourts.gov) to and received by chambers no later than September 15, 2015. The 

parties shall report on the outcome of their settlement discussions in their settlement conference 

statements.

Any request to continue the settlement conference shall state the reason therefor and be 

submitted in writing as soon as possible well in advance of the scheduled conference date. 

Requests to vacate the settlement referral must be made to the referring Judge, not Magistrate 

Judge Vadas. 

The parties shall notify the undersigned's Chambers immediately at (707) 445-3612 if this 

case settles prior to the date set for the settlement conference. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 19, 2015

______________________________________

NANDOR J. VADAS

United States Magistrate Judge

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