Opinion
ORDER
TROY L. NUNLEY, District Judge.
This matter was set for trial on August 26, 2014. However, due to a conflict with the Court's calendar, the Court vacated this date on April 4, 2014, and delayed rescheduling the trial on this matter pending determination on Defendants' summary judgment motion. ( See Minute Order, ECF No. 61.) On January 15, 2015, this Court filed its order denying Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment or in the Alternative Summary Adjudication. ( See Order, ECF No. 64.) Thus, this matter must be reset for trial. However, the Court's docket cannot accommodate a trial until summer 2016.
Therefore, the Court hereby orders the parties to meet and confer as to whether both parties are willing to attend a settlement conference before the magistrate judge and whether the parties are amenable to consenting to the jurisdiction of the magistrate judge in order to have their trial concluded in a more timely matter. The parties are hereby ordered to file a joint statement with this Court within thirty (30) days of the entry of this order notifying the Court as to whether a settlement conference would be beneficial and whether they would like to consent to the jurisdiction of the magistrate judge.
IT IS SO ORDERED.