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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RONPAK, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-04058-JST 

ORDER CONTINUING CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

In their most recent joint case management statement, ECF No. 20, the parties state that the 

mediator they selected, Geoffrey Howard, will not be able to assist them because he has been 

appointed to the Marin County Superior Court. Id. at 4. As of today, however, they have not 

selected a new mediator. The parties also did not propose a case schedule, even though they were 

required to do so by local rule. See Civ. L.R. 16-9(a); Standing Order for All Judges of the 

Northern District of California – Contents of Joint Case Management Statement ¶ 17 (requiring 

the parties to propose “dates for designation of experts, discovery cutoff, hearing of dispositive 

motions, pretrial conference and trial”). 

Accordingly, the Court concludes that the case is not ready for case management. The 

case management conference currently scheduled for January 21, 2015 is continued to February 

18, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. An updated joint case management statement that fully complies with Civil 

Local Rule 16-9 must be filed by February 5, 2015. 

If that statement does not identify the parties’ mediator, and the date and time of the 

mediation the parties have scheduled with that mediator, counsel are ordered to bring fully 

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charged cell phones to the case management conference, so that counsel and the court can work 

concertedly to select a mediator before the conclusion of the conference. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 14, 2015

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JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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