The lawyers representing venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and a pair of state agencies have decided they’d like some more time to try to work out a settlement in their long-running legal dispute over public access to Martins Beach on the Peninsula coast.

San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Nina Shapirshteyn, who is overseeing the case, held a video meeting last Wednesday with lawyers for both sides, according to court records. As part of the meeting, Shapirshteyn agreed to delay a case-management conference — a kind of update on the status of the case to see whether it’s on track for a trial or whether a settlement is possible — until Oct. 22.

The move came in response to filings separately made late last month and early this month, respectively, by attorneys for the state agencies and

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