Norwood v. Nanganama

Full title: GREGORY NORWOOD, Plaintiff, v. NANGANAMA, et al., Defendants.

Court: United States District Court, Ninth Circuit, California, E.D. California

Date published: Apr 22, 2015

2:09-cv-02929 JAM AC P (E.D. Cal. Apr. 22, 2015)

Opinion

GREGORY NORWOOD, Plaintiff, v. NANGANAMA, et al., Defendants. No. 2:09-cv-02929 JAM AC P United States District Court, E.D. California. April 22, 2015

          ORDER

          ALLISON CLAIRE, Magistrate Judge.

         Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which proceeds on the third amended complaint. ECF No. 108.

         The dispositive motion filing deadline expired on September 29, 2014. ECF No. 116. Because the parties have not filed dispositive motions, the court will set a final pretrial conference and trial. However, before setting a trial date, the court will require that the parties exhaust settlement efforts, and will refer the parties to a magistrate judge for a settlement conference. Before assigning a settlement judge, the court needs to know if the parties will agree to the undersigned serving as the settlement judge, waiving any conflict that may arise as a result.

         Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that within fourteen days of the filing of this order, the parties shall each file a signed Notice Regarding Waiver of Disqualification, indicating whether they will agree to the undersigned serving as the settlement judge. Failure of either party to file a waiver will result in this case being randomly assigned to another magistrate judge for purposes of conducting a settlement conference. Further instructions will issue once a settlement judge is assigned.

         NOTICE REGARDING WAIVER OF DISQUALIFICATION OF SETTLEMENT JUDGE PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 270(b)

         Check one:

         _____ Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, requests that the assigned Magistrate Judge participate in a settlement conference in this action and hereby waives any claim of disqualification of the assigned Magistrate Judge on that basis thereafter.

         _____ Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, does not waive any claim of disqualification of the assigned Magistrate Judge and requests the court randomly assign another Magistrate Judge for the purposes of conducting a settlement conference.

         NOTICE REGARDING WAIVER OF DISQUALIFICATION OF SETTLEMENT JUDGE PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 270(b)

         Check one:

         ____ Defendant requests that the assigned Magistrate Judge participate in a settlement conference in this action and hereby waives any claim of disqualification of the assigned Magistrate Judge on that basis thereafter.

         ___ Defendant does not waive any claim of disqualification of the assigned Magistrate Judge and requests the court randomly assign another Magistrate Judge for the purposes of conducting a settlement conference.