Given the judge's opinion order, I don't see them wanting to go to trial at all. It just opens the door for criminal proceedings to follow--or worse: paying waaaay more in damages. They are guilty as hell and have been caught red handed. Reading through the history of the proceedings in PACER it looks like they have stalled as long as possible and been as shifty as they can with discovery documents. Time is up IMO. Anything that has transpired since 4/12/18 regarding transcripts to the conferences won't be released until 8/13/18 from what I have read. The STAY order is only until 7/30/18 at which time the trial will commence in August. If you read between the lines, you already know what happened on the last conference call: they want to settle--why else are they in settlement talks with another judge? If they intend to go to trial they have until the end of the month to get all discovery, depositions, etc complete by then. If I were the defendants, I would be trying to settle for the least amount of money possible--but I would definitely settle out of court. All IMO of course.