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did not attend the conference or otherwise respond to the letter
from respondent's counsel. Respondent's counsel mailed a second
Branerton letter on January 16, 1998, which repeated the same
information regarding the Court's policies and requirements
regarding discovery. The second letter invited petitioners to
meet with respondent's counsel on January 30, 1998, at 2 p.m.
The second letter encouraged petitioners to contact respondent's
counsel by telephone to reschedule the January 30 meeting if they
could not attend on that date. Petitioners failed to attend the
proposed conference or otherwise to respond to the second letter.
On April 8, 1998, notice was served on the parties that the
case was calendared for trial during the Los Angeles, California,
trial session beginning September 8, 1998. Attached to the
notice was a copy of the Court's Standing Pre-Trial Order,
advising the parties of the Court's policies and requirements
regarding discovery, stipulations of fact, and other pretrial
matters and ordering the parties to comply with those
requirements.
On April 27, 1998, respondent's counsel mailed petitioners a
third Branerton letter, requesting that petitioners contact
counsel for respondent by telephone to schedule a meeting. As
with the previously scheduled conferences, the stated purpose of
the meeting was to discuss documentation and other evidence so
that the parties could begin to develop a stipulation of facts
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