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Nature of Suit Code: 320
Nature of Suit: Assault, Libel, and Slander
Cause of Action: 28:1332lb Diversity-Libel,Assault,Slander

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HUSAM ALDAIRI,

Plaintiff,

v.

GUS DAHLEH,

Defendant.

Case No.: 3:15-cv-01672-JAH-AHG

ORDER MODIFYING 

MANDATORY SETTLEMENT 

CONFERENCE TO BE 

TELEPHONIC AND ISSUING 

UPDATED PROCEDURES

On January 28, 2020, the Court issued an Order resetting the Mandatory 

Settlement Conference (“MSC”) in this matter for April 27, 2020 at 9:30 AM and issuing 

updated procedures in light of transfer of the case to the undersigned. ECF No. 37. In 

accordance with the Local Rules and Magistrate Judge Allison H. Goddard’s Mandatory 

Settlement Conference Requirements, the Court required the personal appearance of all 

named parties, party representatives with full settlement authority, including claims 

adjusters for insured defendants, and lead trial counsel.

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis, the Court hereby 

MODIFIES the MSC to be telephonic for all attendees. To facilitate this modification, it 

is ORDERED as follows:

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

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must be immediately available by telephone between the hours of 9:30 AM and 

12:30 PM PT on April 27, 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 the 

parties or party 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 23, 2020 to provide each party’s preferred phone number for the MSC 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. All dates, deadlines, procedures, and requirements set forth in the Court’s 

previous order resetting the MSC (ECF No. 37) remain in place, except as explicitly 

modified by this order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 13, 2020

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