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Parties Involved:
EFK Investments, LLC
Plaintiff
Golden Eagle Insurance Corporation
Defendant
Market Street Property Management, Inc.
Plaintiff
Peerless Insurance Company
Defendant

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JOINT STATEMENT REGARDING SELECTION OF MEDIATOR; ORDER CASE NO. 4:13-CV-05910 YGR

Richard Wallace (State Bar No. 124286) 

Peter Prows (State Bar No. 257819) 

BRISCOE IVESTER & BAZEL LLP 

155 Sansome Street, Seventh Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: (415) 402-2700 

Facsimile: (415) 398-5630 

rwallace@briscoelaw.net 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

EFK INVESTMENTS, LLC; and 

MARKET STREET PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

The parties in the above-entitled case jointly submit this Joint Statement Regarding 

Selection of Mediator in accordance with the Court’s Order at the Case Management Conference 

in the Action on November 17, 2014 [Dkt. 52], and the Orders Continuing Compliance Re: 

Mediator filed on December 1 and December 9, 2014 [Dkt. 54 and Dkt. 56.] 

As reported in their Joint Statement Regarding Selection of Mediator filed on December 

5, 2015 [Dkt. 55], the parties through their counsel have engaged in settlement discussions among 

themselves, prior to formal mediation, with the intent of avoiding the inconvenience and possible 

expense of mediation if they can settle this matter without mediation. Plaintiffs initiated those 

discussions by submitting a settlement demand to defendant Peerless Insurance Company 

EFK INVESTMENTS, LLC; and MARKET 

STREET PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC., 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

GOLDEN EAGLE INSURANCE 

CORPORATION; PEERLESS INSURANCE 

COMPANY; and DOES 1-50, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

 Case No. 4:13-CV-05910 YGR 

JOINT STATEMENT REGARDING 

SELECTION OF MEDIATOR; 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

Date: January 9, 2015 

Time: 9:01 a.m. 

Courtroom: 1 

Judge: Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers 

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JOINT STATEMENT REGARDING SELECTION OF MEDIATOR; ORDER CASE NO. 4:13 CV 05910 YGR

(“Peerless”) on December 10, 2014. The parties also have conferred further about the selection of 

a mediator, in the event they are unable to reach a settlement among themselves. 

Peerless is considering Plaintiffs’ settlement offer but does not yet have a response. 

Meanwhile, the parties have not decided about the choice of mediator but generally agree that if 

they do not settle the action among themselves, they will mediate the dispute with either 

Honorable Ronald Sabraw (ret.) at JAMS or through the Court’s ADR Multi-Option Program. 

The parties agree that further settlement discussions may be fruitful and request more time 

to proceed with those discussions before submitting their dispute to formal mediation and before 

further court appearances. The parties jointly ask the Court to continue for four weeks the 

Compliance Hearing Re: Mediator currently scheduled on January 9, 2015, and the deadline to 

complete mediation currently scheduled on February 27, 2015. 

If the parties do not settle this case through their negotiations prior to the continued 

Compliance Hearing, they will resume their efforts to select a mediator. Before the continued 

Compliance Hearing they will either: (1) Notify the Court that the case settled if their settlement 

discussions are successful; or (2) If they are unable to settle, notify the Court about their selection 

of the mediator or notify the Court that they are unable to agree upon a mediator and be prepared 

to further discuss the selection of the mediator with the Court at the continued Compliance 

Hearing. 

DATED: January 2, 2015 BRISCOE IVESTER & BAZEL LLP 

By: /s/ Richard Wallace 

 RICHARD WALLACE 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

 EFK INVESTMENTS, LLC and MARKET 

 STREET PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC. 

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JOINT STATEMENT REGARDING SELECTION OF MEDIATOR; ORDER CASE NO. 4:13 CV 05910 YGR

DATED: January 2, 2015 SEDGWICK LLP 

By: /s/ Jason J. Chorley 

 SUSAN KOEHLER SULLIVAN 

 JASON J. CHORLEY 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 PEERLESS INSURANCE COMPANY 

ORDER 

The compliance hearing regarding the parties’ choice of mediator, currently set for Friday, 

January 9, 2015, is CONTINUED to Friday, February 6, 2015, on the Court’s 9:01 a.m. calendar, 

in the Federal Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, California, Courtroom 1. 

Five (5) business days prior to the date of the compliance hearing, the parties shall file 

either: (a) choice of mediator or (b) a one-page Joint Statement setting forth an explanation for 

their failure to comply. If compliance is complete, the parties need not appear and the 

compliance hearing will be taken off calendar. 

The deadline to complete mediation, currently scheduled on Friday February 27, 2015, is 

CONTINUED to Friday, March 27, 2015. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: January ___, 2015 

 

YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

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