Warren
Warren v. City of Chico
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BOBBY WARREN, et al., No. 2:21–cv–640–MCE–KJN Plaintiffs, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE v. CITY OF CHICO, et al., Defendants. 16 In July 2021, the assigned district judge in this matter referred the parties to the undersigned for a settlement conference. (ECF No. 103.) Thereafter, the court set a settlement conference, and issued a number of ancillary orders related to those proceedings. (ECF No. 111.) One of these ancillary orders concerned the confidentiality of all information exchanged between the parties in furtherance of settlement. (Id. (“The Settlement Conference is confidential and not open for public attendance.”).) Further, at the start of the August 30 conference, the undersigned verbally reminded the parties of their continuing obligations of confidentiality, and admonished that any information shared in furtherance of settlement is to remain confidential. This admonishment was repeated at the September 10 conference, and at that…