"MrVidmar" <
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> NOTICE TO THE COURT OF TENTATIVE, POSSIBLE, PARTIAL SETTLEMENT
>
> Plaintiff, Susan Polgar, and Brian Lafferty, Brian Mottershead, Hal
> Bogner, Karl S. Kronenberger, Kronenberger Burgoyne, LLP, Continental
> Chess Incorporated, United States of America Chess Federation, Inc., Bill
> Goichberg, James Berry, Randy Bauer, Randall Hough, and Bill Hall (all
> Defendants except Sam Sloan and Gregory Alexander) file this Notice to the
> Court and respectfully show unto the Court as follows:
>
> 1. Daniel Bowling and Robin Siefkin are mediators appointed by the
> California court have continued to assist the parties in trying to resolve
> this matter. Plaintiff and these Defendants disagree with the statements
> recently made by Sam Sloan with regard to his recent court filing
> regarding mediation and/or settlement issues.
> 2. Plaintiff and these Defendants have reached a tentative, possible oral
> settlement. Plaintiff and these Defendants all consent that this Court
> can contact the mediators to confirm such facts.
> 3. The parties have exchanged proposed settlement documents and are trying
> to agree on specific language in the settlement documents. The parties
> have agreed to postpone the discovery deadline as seen by the attached
> Exhibit A to allow the parties to have additional time to try to finalize
> the possible settlement. Assuming the settlement finalizes and the
> settlement documents are executed, the only remaining claims would be by
> and between Plaintiff and Sam Sloan and the USCF and Gregory Alexander
> (regarding the claims that had been transferred from the California
> proceeding). The possible, anticipated settlement would settle all claims
> in the Illinois proceeding as well as the vast majority of the claims in
> the California proceeding that was transferred to this proceeding.
> 4. Plaintiff and these Defendants believe that if the Court makes rulings
> on any pending motions, it could complicate the respective attempts to
> finalize the settlement. Consequently, Plaintiff and these Defendants
> request that this Court not make any rulings at this time and/or formally
> or informally abate the case to see if the settlement can be finalized.
> WHEREFORE, PREMISES CONSIDERED, Plaintiff and these Defendants wanted to
> make this Court aware of these facts, and Plaintiff and Defendants request
> that this Court not make any rulings at this time and/or formally or
> informally abate the case to see if the settlement can be finalized.
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> William P. Huttenbach
> Federal I.D. No. 21742
> State Bar No. 24002330
>
I guess this leaves Sam Sloan and Gordon Roy Parker out in the cold. Since
this has been ordered into mediation, I wonder how they are going to pay the
fees? Federal Mediatiors are not free, even to those who abuse the system
and claim In forma pauperis for all their pro se nonsense.