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Parties Involved:
Gordon R. England
Defendant
Alan T. Gallagher
Plaintiff
United States Navy
Defendant

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 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALAN T. GALLAGHER,

Plaintiff,

vs.

GORDON R. ENGLAND, SECRETARY,

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, 

Defendant. 

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INFORMATIONAL ORDER re:

PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST FOR

CLARIFICATION RE: SETTLEMENT

CONFERENCE (Doc. 33)

The Court is in receipt of plaintiff’s Request For

Clarification Re: LR 16-270 Settlement Conference and responds,

briefly as follows:

In the Fresno Division of the Eastern District of

California, Magistrate Judges conduct all settlement conferences. 

In the instance wherein the Magistrate Judge is also the trial

judge, another Magistrate Judge will conduct the settlement

conference. It is the practice of this court that no judge who

will be the trial judge of an action conduct a settlement

conference in that same action.

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Local Rule 16-270(b) refers to a rare instance in which the

parties want the judge who is the trial judge also to conduct the

settlement conference. Hence the language “[U]nless all parties

affirmatively request that the assigned [meaning for trial] Judge

or Magistrate Judge participate in the conference [meaning the

settlement conference] and waive in writing any claim of

disqualification on that basis to act as Judge or Magistrate

Judge in the action thereafter [meaning for trial], the assigned

Judge or Magistrate Judge [meaning assigned for trial] shall not

conduct the settlement conference.” 

The undersigned, being a Magistrate Judge, in normal course

as the assigned case management judge [that is the Magistrate

Judge’s role in civil actions wherein a District Court Judge is

the assigned trial judge], is the settlement conference judge in

this case. She is not and will not be the trial judge. 

Therefore, she is the appropriate judge to handle the settlement

conference in this case.

The Court will see plaintiff and counsel for the United

States Navy on June 20, 2006 at 1:30 p.m. for the settlement

conference unless otherwise notified of a joint request for a

continuance or unless one or both parties inform this Court that

the case is not ready for settlement discussions.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 6, 2006 /s/ Sandra M. Snyder 

icido3 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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