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(“Defendant”). The Agreement refers to Plaintiff and Defendant collectively as “Parties,” or 4 individually as “Party.”"},"conditions":[{"page":22,"quote":"8. CLASS SIZE ESTIMATES and ESCALATOR CLAUSE. The GSA was calculated based 6 on the estimate that 576 Class Members worked a total of 45,685 workweeks at the time of the 7 settlement on December 31, 2025. If the total number of workweeks during the Class Period 8 increases by more than 10% above 45,685 workweeks (i.e. an increase of more than 4,568 9 workweeks), then the GSA will be increased proportionally by the number of workweeks worked 10 in excess of 10%. For example, if the final number of total workweeks increases by 15% over 11 45,685 workweeks, the GSA will increase by 5%. If this provision is triggered, the Parties agree 12 that the portion of the GSA allocated to attorneys’ fees will increase proportionally such that the 13 total amount of attorneys’ fees remains one-third (1/3) of the GSA after the upward adjustment 14 required by this provision is implemented."},{"page":8,"quote":"The Gross Settlement Amount is non-reversionary and does 24 not include employer payroll taxes owed on the wage portions of the Individual Class Payments, 25 which Defendant will pay separately."},{"page":5,"quote":"1.19 “Effective Date” means the date by which both of the following have occurred: (a) the 2 Court enters a Judgment on its Order Granting Final Approval of the Settlement; and (b) the 3 Judgment is final. The Judgment is final as of the latest of the following occurrences: (a) if no 4 Participating Class Member objects to the Settlement, the day the Court enters Judgment; (b) if 5 one or more Participating Class Members objects to the Settlement, the day after the deadline for 6 filing a notice of appeal from the Judgment; or (c) if a timely appeal from the Judgment is filed, 7 the day after the appellate court affirms the Judgment and issues a remittitur."},{"page":12,"quote":"4.3 Funding of Gross Settlement Amount. Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement 2 Amount and the amounts necessary to fully pay Defendant’s share of payroll taxes by transmitting 3 the funds to the Administrator no later than fourteen (14) days after the Effective Date."},{"page":13,"quote":"5. RELEASES OF CLAIMS. Effective on the date when Defendant fully funds the Gross 12 Settlement Amount and all employer payroll taxes owed on the Wage Portion of the Individual 13 Class Payments, Plaintiff, Class Members, and Class Counsel will release claims against all 14 Released Parties as follows: 15"}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated $230,000 class-and-PAGA gross is subject to the agreement's workweek escalator: above 10% over 45,685 workweeks, the gross increases proportionally only for the excess above 10%. Employer payroll taxes are paid separately. Funding is due 14 days after the defined Effective Date, which requires final approval and judgment finality; releases require full funding.","rationale":"The parties' own executed agreement defines $230,000 as the total gross and promises that sum to settle both identified actions. It is not the $11,500 PAGA allocation, $8,625 LWDA share, requested fees, net class distribution, or a damages valuation. 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Exhibit 2 and its redline in Bils's declaration are supporting versions, not extra settlements."}},{"reviewId":"representative-lwda-cm-1003293-24-20261020","action":"add","recordId":"archive-lwda-cm-1003293-24-b78b","recordSha256":"a78bcb63534c87ecbb3282cd90e66bafbb85b8e15d1afc4beac2f60d375c8a5e","sourceSha256":"b78b33f7654bd2d93527d4fe36b045616c2993106efddfb361987ff3ce572e88","sourcePage":2,"sourceBytes":1084331,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"88629633cd73a5c3510a7dcab45a080e4c64dda29584159137da9ef273de1a44","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"paga-only","scopeEvidence":{"page":8,"quote":"5. RELEASES OF CLAIMS. Effective on the date when Defendant fully funds the entire Gross PAGA Settlement Amount, Plaintiff, the State of California, and Aggrieved Employees will release claims against all Released Parties as follows: 5.1 Separate Individual Claims. Pursuant to separate confidential settlement agreements, in addition to the Gross PAGA Settlement Amount, Defendant has agreed to separately pay Plaintiffs and Claimants individual settlements to resolve all of their individual non- PAGA claims, which are not being released in this Agreement. 5.2 Release by Plaintiffs, the State of California, and Aggrieved Employees. Except for any Separate Individual Claims (defined above), Plaintiffs, the State of California, and all Aggrieved Employees are deemed to have fully, finally, and forever released the Released Parties from all “Released PAGA Claims.”"},"conditions":[{"page":2,"quote":"The Gross PAGA Settlement Amount is separate and apart from any Individual Settlements separately paid to Plaintiffs and Claimants for a General Release of their claims, addressed further herein (“Individual Settlements”). As such, the Gross PAGA Settlement Amount does not include Plaintiffs’ and Claimants’ Individual Settlements, which are being separately funded by Defendant and memorialized in Individual Settlement Agreements."},{"page":9,"quote":"8. AGGRIEVED EMPLOYEE SIZE ESTIMATES AND ESCALATOR CLAUSE. Based on its records, Defendant estimated that there are approximately 800,000 PAGA Pay Periods worked by the Aggrieved Employees during the PAGA Period. For each PAGA Pay Period over 800,000 in the PAGA Period there shall either be: (i) a pro-rata increase in the Gross PAGA Settlement Amount based on the Gross PAGA Settlement Amount divided by 800,000, or (ii) the end date of the PAGA Period will be backed up such that there is a release of no more than 10% over 800,000 PAGA Pay Periods (i.e., no more than 880,000 PAGA Pay Periods)."},{"page":10,"quote":"filing of the motion for settlement approval. No later than five (5) business days before the anticipated date of filing the motion for settlement approval, Defendant will notify PAGA Counsel of the total number of PAGA Pay Periods worked by the Aggrieved Employees within the PAGA Period and whether: (i) Defendant will either pay additional sums on a pro- rata basis for each PAGA Pay Period over 800,000, or (ii) will notify provide PAGA counsel that it elects to proceed with option (ii) and provide PAGA Counsel with the end date of the PAGA Period so that the motion or stipulation for approval can be modified with the appropriate release/end date."},{"page":2,"quote":"1.12. “Effective Date” means the date upon which the Court serves a signed Order granting approval the Settlement."},{"page":7,"quote":"4.3. Funding of Gross PAGA Settlement Amount. Defendant shall fully fund the Gross PAGA Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator no later than fourteen (14) business days of the Effective Date."}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated $745,000 is PAGA-only and excludes separately funded confidential individual settlements. For pay periods over 800,000, the agreement permits either a pro-rata gross increase or a period-end cutback to no more than 880,000 pay periods; the selected option and final period end are not established. Court approval and funding are required; the retained order is unsigned.","rationale":"This is the defendant's stated own-case PAGA gross promise, not a net fund or damages estimate. Although section 1.13 calls it the maximum, section 3.1 commits to the stated $745,000, qualified by the explicit section 8 escalation/cutback mechanism. Separate individual non-PAGA settlements are expressly excluded and cannot be added without their own evidence. 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Separate claimant individual agreement is contemplated without an additional amount here. Pay periods above 110% of 3,500 trigger proportional increase beyond buffer; claimant may rescind if payroll audit inappropriate; court approval required.","conditions":[{"page":2,"quote":"If the actual number of pay periods as of April 1, 2025 is greater than 10% more than the approximation of 3,500 pay periods, then the Gross Settlement Amount shall increase proportionately for each additional pay period beyond the 10% buffer."}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated $35,000 gross is subject to a proportional increase if actual pay periods exceed the 3,500-period estimate by more than 10%. The MOU remains subject to court approval and specified conditions.","scopeEvidence":{"page":1,"quote":"4. 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This amount, i.e., the Gross Settlement Amount, shall cover, resolve, and fully satisfy any and all amounts owed to Plaintiffs, the Aggrieved Employees, the State of California, and Plaintiffs’ Counsel, including all amounts allocated to attorneys’ fees and costs, in settlement of all PAGA claims asserted by Plaintiffs, on behalf of himself and the Aggrieved Employees."}},"reviewedBy":"root","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:19:30.228067+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"953d6f765bd5e9b4edf9908a5d0ede9032cb14853bc6df17c47872c06d87f612","economicSettlementId":"reviewed-lwda-cm-811613-20","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"The own-case operative source and all attached originals were reviewed. 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The proposed scalar represents that stated base with the condition disclosed, not a computed or finally funded sum.","scopeEvidence":{"page":2,"quote":"This matter came before the Court on the motion for approval of the Parties' Private 3 Attorneys General Act Settlement Agreement (\"Settlement\" or \"Settlement Agreement\") filed by 4 Plaintiff Adina Acosta-Vazquez (\"Plaintiff'). Plaintiff filed his motion pursuant to the California 5 Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004, Labor Code § 2698, et seq. (\"PAGA\")."},"conditions":[{"page":3,"quote":"subject to the escalator provision of Settlement 4 Agreement ,i 16, as set forth in the Settlement Agreement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated $242,000 base is subject to the settlement agreement’s paragraph 16 escalator; the retained order does not reproduce that formula or establish an adjusted amount."},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"0fd99c74a19e45eafbbfb527fe6be33cf2ec624a6ff1f2d95c998cb0eb7f15b9","economicSettlementId":"settlement-1085910-25-cf33396bcc84","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. All four pages were read. $80,666.67 fees, $16,000 expenses, $3,500 administration and $141,833.33 remaining penalties total $242,000. Only the order is retained in this exact association unit. Integration must preserve the escalator limitation; do not infer its trigger or assert a final adjusted amount.","comparedObservationIds":[]}},{"reviewId":"batch-0001-802161-20-gross-v1","action":"add","recordId":"expanded-802161-20","recordSha256":"0dd7ce204cdb022144ae2a9efa9c5b015ad5107304c390eee800130517195d5f","sourceSha256":"3503bd30ea8535c5ec62c345e5b629d7e1aed35f2fbc89b2e05816851baf28a2","sourcePage":4,"sourceBytes":135565,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"7c9220a5efed005083df957e317532f36dc2f0292e77355abdfe559cb5dd1887","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross","scope":"class-and-paga","rationale":"The retained proposed final order in the consolidated Maldonado/Herrera/Valentine/Jackson matter expressly identifies the joint gross and class/PAGA payments. Its unsigned date line does not establish entry; the observation records the stated settlement amount at documented stage.","scopeEvidence":{"page":4,"quote":"Class Payments and Individual PAGA Payments are fair and reasonable, and authorizes the Settlement 4 Administrator to pay the Individual Class Payments and Individual PAGA Payments to the 5 Participating Class Members in accordance with the terms of the Agreement."}},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"b69fb8024452a481d2e18c9d895e924970cf3b9a7167418f166e9a9a4cc8c20e","economicSettlementId":"settlement-802161-20-3503bd30ea85","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. All five pages were read. The $2,000,000 fee, $328,520.76 costs, $60,000 service awards and $300,000 PAGA amount are allocations. A joint defendant amount is not attributed as KCM's separate contribution. 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Headcount escalation and the opt-out termination option require conditional treatment.","scopeEvidence":{"page":3,"quote":"PAGA Allocation: Twenty percent of the gross settlement amount shall be allocated to PAGA, with 75%paid to the California Labor Workforce Development Agency, and 25%paid to the class."},"conditions":[{"page":1,"quote":"This Total Settlement Amount is designed to compensate up to 87 mobile radiologic technologists and ultrasound technicians (in total). If any this number increases, then the Total Settlement Amount must increase, pro rata, based upon the number of class members, proportionally, to compensate for Defendant's additional exposure."},{"page":3,"quote":"If more than 10% of the putative class members affirmatively, effectively opt-out of the settlement, Defendant may, at its option, void the Settlement, by notifying Class Counsel and the Settlement Administrator within five calendar days of being told by the Settlement Administrator that 10% of the putative class members have opted out."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $2,000,000 stated base increases pro rata if the covered group exceeds 87 technologists and technicians; the defendant may void the settlement if more than 10% of the putative class effectively opts out."},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"46c5088c390c6651889b7f83b440b2403a3ede2a8ccbe9c2857057a130bae2d3","economicSettlementId":"settlement-322730-17-b6c675fb813d","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. All seven pages, including signature counterparts, were read. $1.2 million plus $400,000 plus $400,000 are installment timing for the same $2 million; they are not additional funds. No final adjusted group count or payment completion is inferred.","comparedObservationIds":[]}},{"reviewId":"batch-0001-245153-17-gross-v1","action":"add","recordId":"expanded-245153-17","recordSha256":"563c726b4138e7ffbd1d370d1892f1648b94310972c5bdfa8385199a2fd20111","sourceSha256":"897a7fa95cac3a390716ee18a6a01f1c2692c2abea29a5852cd137e89f5744bd","sourcePage":1,"sourceBytes":55230,"sourceTextBasis":"ocr-visual","sourcePageTextSha256":"f24a1bee30ead821dc1bd1c6d49ad5b8432b74c6d6db7e9009a6e69db0d408b9","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross","scope":"paga-only","rationale":"The signed order approves a separately stated PAGA gross. The executed stipulation distinguishes this from a confidential individual settlement and references claims of plaintiff and other employees.","scopeEvidence":{"page":1,"quote":"agreement to resolve the PAGA claims for the gross sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)"}},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"b01c162780840c52f61ea773b3a1242718942a75ce8598f8934a697da35c39cf","economicSettlementId":"settlement-245153-17-897a7fa95cac","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. The signed order, executed stipulation and proposed order were reconciled as one economic settlement. The signed order controls over the proposed copy. Stipulation physical page 5 has poorly oriented/garbled OCR; its unreadable text is not needed to establish the amount or scope already explicit in the signed order and stipulation page 4. 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The net amount is not the gross.","scopeEvidence":{"page":5,"quote":"Settlement Class Awards to be made to the Settlement Class Members; Attorney’s Fees and Expenses Payment to Class Counsel; Enhancement Payment to the Named Plaintiff; and PAGA payment to the LWDA."}},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"43874799467659567615fa94d747c1a306ee8e5cbc290919f91c9e9546b19426","economicSettlementId":"settlement-193722-17-203d1f212fc4","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. All seven pages were read. The baseline $1.1 million Credit Union settlement concerns Annette Molina's 2024 Los Angeles action, while this source concerns Raquel Smeir, San Bernardino CIVDS1700559. The source captions establish different proceedings; employer identity alone does not merge them.","comparedObservationIds":["LWDA-CM-1013732-24"]}},{"reviewId":"batch-0001-784288-20-gross-v1","action":"add","recordId":"expanded-784288-20","recordSha256":"e5707d933122687c887d55dc6d782c29fce72ae48e786a648a985a6858bdcde9","sourceSha256":"9c9c645df42ffecb7724a515fac9ccd181950d6ddc4fb0486e84cc6bafbf5ff6","sourcePage":3,"sourceBytes":1437083,"sourceTextBasis":"ocr-visual","sourcePageTextSha256":"380606ad0611dcdee8ebf3f876b2cc895666409a55888d3fd1afbafe0b5fb9dd","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"paga-only","rationale":"The Macias-Valladolid agreement defines a fixed PAGA gross comprised of penalties, fees and costs. It excludes the individual non-PAGA claims and expressly conditions effectiveness on court approval.","scopeEvidence":{"page":2,"quote":"This PAGA Agreement is a full release and settlement of all of Plaintiff's and of all Aggrieved Employees’ PAGA Claims as asserted by Plaintiff"},"conditions":[{"page":3,"quote":"This PAGA Agreement is expressly contingent upon the Court's approval of the PAGA Settlement pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in this PAGA Agreement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The agreement expressly makes this $12,500 PAGA settlement contingent on court approval; no approval order is included in this exact source-association unit."},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"7fccb2a53b57dc4f1632d9f914de58f467fb87fe58f71ae5bf9d3b34004b028d","economicSettlementId":"settlement-784288-20-9c9c645df42f","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. All eight pages were read. $7,125 civil penalties, $4,125 fees and $1,250 costs total $12,500. 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The cited cases address approval standards and do not supply this amount.","scopeEvidence":{"page":4,"quote":"$22,500 will be 9 allocated to PAGA penalties, 75 percent of which will be paid to the LWDA. The named 10 plaintiff will also seek an enhancement award of $5,000."}},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"b31ea394a92c7f3cc1de724a4a1f17aa5d2dc8436013308d8c3c533df79ad27c","economicSettlementId":"settlement-808230-20-0801e9ecc794","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. All six pages were read, including the duplicated text layer at the end. 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The associated complaint expressly pleads penalties on behalf of plaintiff and other aggrieved employees; the gross is limited to the PAGA cause, not all individual employment claims.","scopeEvidence":{"page":2,"quote":"as mandated by the PAGA"}},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"7f0adde6f6e6dda6a417f38890e93c7b2cc34f7e34dd2e2786cfd6f7f3a0b63a","economicSettlementId":"settlement-188087-16-286cb05bb196","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. Both order pages were read. The 33-page complaint was screened; captions/selected pages and operative PAGA allegations on physical pages 13–15 were read, with pages 12 and 16 retained as surrounding context. Non-PAGA complaint pages were not all read. 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The rendered original resolves the machine candidate's $500,000.24 defect.","scopeEvidence":{"page":4,"quote":"The Court approves $10,000.00 of the Gross Settlement Amount to resolve 17 PAGA claims to be paid to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency as their share ofthe 18 settlement for the civil penalties alleged."}},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"d25ccf1f192751ab8f513d9e7ea918671094684df7fb91f9083b44e008edabcd","economicSettlementId":"settlement-301634-17-363a10bdd34e","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. All six pages were read and the actual amount and PAGA pages rendered. The source's fee-percentage wording is internally inconsistent (twenty-five percent versus 33.33%), but the separately explicit $500,000 gross is unambiguous. 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It is the whole fund, not a per-plaintiff amount.","scopeEvidence":{"page":5,"quote":"The Court finds that allocation of $75,000.00 toward penalties under the California 8 Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (“PAGA Payment”), is fair, reasonable, and appropriate, 9 and hereby approved."}},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T08:36:57.793897+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"1e4758bd3fcc67ac460a2180f94af1cc6cb3f6f20b3faac6074e3248772988be","economicSettlementId":"settlement-807994-20-058f671c9164","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","rationale":"No baseline observation shares this exact case or original. All eight physical pages were read. The table reconciles $262,500 fees, $16,925.81 costs, $40,000 enhancements, $10,000 general release, $10,000 administration, $75,000 PAGA and $335,574.19 net. The additional $18,750 employee distribution is part of the $75,000 PAGA allocation, not an additional gross. 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Upon the Funding Date, Final Approval, and no objection by LWDA, the Parties will: (i) be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and the releases set forth therein; and (ii) be deemed to have waived all objections and oppositions to the fairness, reasonableness, and adequacy of the settlement and the Court’s Final Order and Judgment."},{"page":8,"quote":"1. Voiding the Agreement: The Settlement Agreement shall be voidable and unenforceable as to all Parties herein at the option of either Party if: (a) the Court should for any reason fail to approve this Settlement in the form agreed to by the Parties; or (b) the Court should for any reason fail to enter a judgment, or (c) the approval of the Settlement and judgment is reversed, modified or declared or rendered void, or (d) should Defendants fail to make all installment payments. In that event, then neither the Settlement or any of the related negotiations or proceedings shall be of any force or effect, and all parties to the Settlement shall stand in the same position, without prejudice, as if the Settlement had been neither entered into nor filed with the Court. Any fees already incurred by the Settlement Administrator shall be shared by the Parties equally. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parties shall attempt in good faith to cure any perceived defects in the Settlement to facilitate approval."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $140,000 non-reversionary PAGA gross is funded in three scheduled installments: $47,000 on February 1, 2027, $47,000 on July 1, 2027 and $46,000 on September 1, 2027. 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The Parties shall otherwise bear their 11 own fees and costs, except as otherwise agreed to between the Parties in writing."},{"page":11,"quote":"A failure of the Court to approve any material condition of this Settlement 15 shall render the entire Settlement voidable and unenforceable as to Plaintiffs and 16 Defendant, at the option of Plaintiffs or Defendant."}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated $15,000 Total Settlement Payment combines $10,000 for the named plaintiffs’ FLSA claims and $5,000 for representative PAGA relief. An additional $2,000 attorney-fee payment and Defendant-paid reasonable administration costs are outside that stated fund. 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In the event: (i) the Court does not enter an order approving this Agreement as provided herein; (ii) the Court does not enter judgment as provided herein; (iii) the Effective Date does not occur; or (iv) the settlement set forth in this Agreement does not become final for any other reason, this Agreement shall be null and void ab initio and any order, dismissal, or judgment entered by the Court in furtherance of the Settlement set forth herein shall be treated as withdrawn or vacated by stipulation of the parties. In such case, the Parties shall be returned to their respective statuses as of the date immediately prior to the execution of this Agreement, and the Parties shall proceed in all respects as if this Agreement had not been executed. With the exception of any appeal or action filed regarding the attorneys’ fees lien, in the event an appeal is filed from the Court’s order approving this Agreement or any order, dismissal, or judgment entered pursuant thereto, or any other appellate review is sought prior to the Effective Date, administration of the Settlement shall be stayed pending final resolution of the appeal or other appellate review."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $275,000 gross settles both the representative PAGA lawsuit and Gonsales’s individual arbitration; 55% of the net is allocated to PAGA and 45% to her individual release. Employer payroll taxes on wage payments are additional. 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Effective on the date when Defendant fully funds the entire Gross Settlement Amount, all Aggrieved Employees are deemed to release, on behalf of themselves and their respective former and present representatives, agents, attorneys, heirs, administrators, successors, and assigns, the Released Parties from all claims for PAGA penalties based on the following Labor Code statutes: 1174, 210, 1197.1, 226.3, 204, 510, 558, 1194, 1198, 1182.12(b), 226.7, 512, 516, 2750.3, 226, 201- and 203."},"rationale":"The own-case operative agreement promises a non-reversionary $10,000 gross for PAGA relief, with an explicit upward adjustment rather than an unresolved formula replacing the stated base. Release is effective upon full funding.","conditions":[{"page":7,"quote":"8.2 Escalator Clause. 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All terms used herein shall have the same meaning as defined in the Settlement Agreement. The settlement set forth in the Settlement Agreement appears to be fair, adequate and reasonable to the Class, and the Court preliminarily approves the terms of the Settlement Agreement, including, without limitation: a. A non-reversionary Gross Settlement Amount of $750,000.00, comprising: 17 i. The Class Representative enhancement payment to the named Plaintiff of 18 $7,500.00; 19 ii. Court approved attorneys’ fees to Class Counsel of up to $250,000.00, 20 representing one-third of the Gross Settlement Amount; 21 iii. Court approved litigation costs to Class Counsel of up to $20,000.00; 22 iv. Fees and Costs of the Settlement Administrator of up to $15,000.00; 23 v. A PAGA allocation of $25,000.00, with $18,750.00 (i.e., 75%) payable to 24 the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency for its portion of 25 the PAGA penalties; and 26 vi. 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Plaintiffs’ Releases of PAGA Claims: Upon final approval by the Court and full payment of the PAGA Gross Settlement Amount to the Settlement Administrator by Defendants, Plaintiffs, as agents and proxies of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (“LWDA”), will release Defendant from all claims for civil penalties arising at any time during the PAGA Period for the claims asserted by Plaintiffs in the Notice Letters sent to the LWDA and in the Operative Complaints in the Actions. This release does not include any other claims, including claims for vested benefits, wrongful termination, violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, unemployment insurance, disability, social security, workers’ compensation, class claims, or PAGA claims based on facts occurring outside the PAGA Period.."},"rationale":"The definition fixes a $285,000 total and the monetary clause requires disbursement of the entire non-reversionary fund. 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The effective date (“Effective Date”) of this Agreement shall mean the last of the following dates: (a) the date of service of notice of entry of the order approving this Agreement and the PAGA Settlement if no objections are filed to this settlement or if all objections are withdrawn prior to the Court ruling on them; or, (b) sixty-one (61) days after the date of service of notice of entry of the settlement approval order if objections are filed and overruled and no appeal is taken from the order approving the settlement; or (c) if a timely appeal is made, ten (10) business days after the final resolution of that appeal if the appeal is rejected, the settlement is upheld, and the settlement approval order is no longer subject to further judicial review."},{"page":5,"quote":"Within 15 business days of the Effective Date, USC shall deposit the Gross Settlement Amount of $254,000 with the Settlement Administrator."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $254,000 gross resolves representative PAGA claims and is payable within 15 business days after the agreement’s Effective Date, which depends on approval notice and any objections or appeals. 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Each defendant may void it if at least 5% of settlement group members opt out. Material court disapproval or modification, or appellate reversal or material modification, can also make it voidable; reduced service payments or fees and expenses do not constitute a material modification."},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T09:27:44.297011+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"a436c8a5c158faced797c02bed3c1ee9634dbf10a93715ae474b6b78993bd5be","economicSettlementId":"settlement-269469-17-62a7c7e952ab","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No baseline observation shares the exact case or original. All 23 agreement pages read. A separate lawyer-experience declaration under LWDA-CM-806343-20 cites Usher’s $2.4 million as an earlier case, not a new settlement or additional association. 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The Settlement Administrator shall include a legend on the settlement check stating “By cashing this check, I am to the extent required by law opting into the settlement in [Eda Sanchez Olivares v. Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center, et al., Orange County Case No. 30- 2015-00823733-CU-OE-CXC, Nienfen Wang v. Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center, et al., Orange County Case No. 30-2015-00821329- CU-OE-CXC, and Emelinda Manuel, et al., v. Tenet Healthcare Corp., et al., Orange County Case No. 30-2018-00975924-CU-OE-CXC], under FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 216(b), and releasing all claims under the FLSA described in the Settlement Agreement.” The claims set forth in subparagraphs herein and immediately above shall be collectively referred to as the “Released Claims.” 2b. PAGA Release Upon the Effective Date, the claims released by the PAGA Members will include any and all claims for civil penalties that could have been assessed upon or collected from the Released Parties (as defined above) under California Labor Code § 2698, et seq. (“PAGA”),"},"rationale":"Amended operative agreement expressly promises $4 million, requires full funding and provides no reversion. The $550,000 PAGA sum, fees and representative enhancements are internal allocations. The agreement itself identifies the three actions; the exact LWDA-259142 source letter ties Manuel’s court action to that LWDA record.","conditions":[{"page":31,"quote":"The Parties agree as a condition of the Settlement Agreement to amend the complaint in the Wang Case to add a FLSA claim and class claims The settlement must be approved with respect to all FVRH Cases in order for the settlement to take effect. 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The Pay 12 Period value shall be calculated by dividing the originally agreed-upon GSA by 9,432, which 13 amounts to a Pay Period value of $35.51. Thus, for example should there be 11,000 Pay Periods 14 in the PAGA Period, then the Gross Settlement Amount shall be increased by $22,193 ((11,000 15 Pay Periods – 10,375 Pay Periods) x $35.51); or (2) in the alternative, Defendants may elect to 16 cut off the PAGA Period as of the date the number of Pay Periods reaches 10,375. Defendants 17 shall provide the Class Data to the administrator no later than 30 days after full execution of the 18 long form agreement. Defendant shall make their election regarding the above no later than 7 19 days after receiving information from the administrator regarding the workweek count. Should 20 Defendants fail to make their election within the above timeframe, then option (1) shall 21 automatically apply."}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated base gross is $326,700, subject to court approval/finality and the agreement’s pay-period escalator or alternative period cutoff. Above the stated 10,375-pay-period threshold, defendants may increase the gross or cut off the PAGA period; failure to elect makes the increase apply. The agreement states $35.51 per excess pay period although $326,700 divided by 9,432 is approximately $34.6374, and its $22,193 example omits $0.75. 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The agreement requires full deposit; uncashed checks go to the State Controller. The entered order repeats the same all-in nonreversionary $909,000 and supersedes the proposed-order posture used by the baseline source. The agreement p25 and Shkodnik declaration p5 state a $309,666.67 fee figure that conflicts with one-third of the gross; the motion and entered order expressly use $303,000. This fee discrepancy is not an alternative gross. The allocation split rounding difference does not alter the gross.","conditions":[{"page":27,"quote":"Within 7 days after the Effective Date, Defendant shall deposit the Total 2 Settlement Payment with the Settlement Administrator."},{"page":27,"quote":"Defendant estimates that PAGA Settlement Members worked approximately 5 100,994 pay periods from August 15, 2023 to September 3, 2025 (the date of mediation). If the actual 6 number of pay periods worked by PAGA Settlement Members during the PAGA Period exceeds this 7 estimate by more than ten percent (10%), Defendant, in its sole and absolute discretion, shall have the 8 option to increase the Total Settlement Payment proportionally for the overage (i.e., if the number of pay 9 periods exceeds Defendant’s estimate by 11%, Defendant shall increase the Total Settlement Payment 10 by 1%) or to limit the PAGA Period such that the PAGA Period ends on the date when PAGA 11 Settlement Members have worked no more than 10 percent above the pay period estimate. 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Upon the Effective Date, the LWDA, by and through Plaintiff as an agent or proxy of the LWDA, shall be deemed to release the Released Parties from all claims for PAGA penalties that were alleged, or reasonably could have been alleged, based on the PAGA Period facts stated in the PAGA Notice. The LWDA may not pursue the same PAGA claims in any representative capacity (including by and through alleged aggrieved employees) that are being released herein in another action."},"rationale":"The expressly stated $140,000 gross settles representative PAGA claims; the class allegations are dismissed without prejudice. The elected escalator/cutoff qualifies the stated base. No extra private settlement or separate economic fund is established.","conditions":[{"page":6,"quote":"8. AGGRIEVED EMPLOYEE SIZE ESTIMATES AND ESCALATOR CLAUSE Based on its records, Defendant estimates that, as of the date of this Settlement Agreement, there are approximately 4,350 Pay Periods during the PAGA Period. If the actual number of pay periods increases by more than 10% for the PAGA Period, at the election of Defendant and prior to the Court’s approval hearing of the Agreement, the settlement amount will: (1) be increased proportionately beyond the 10% (i.e., an 11% increase would result in a 1% increase of the Gross Settlement Amount; or (2) the PAGA Period will end at 4,785 (e.g., 4,350 plus 435 [10%]). Following execution of the Agreement, Defendant shall provide the Aggrieved Employee Data to the selected third party administrator for the final calculations."},{"page":4,"quote":"4.3. Funding of Gross Settlement Amount. Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator no later than 60 days after the Court issues an Approval Order granting approval of the PAGA Settlement."},{"page":5,"quote":"6. MOTION OR APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF SETTLEMENT. 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The Gross Settlement Amount includes all Individual Settlement Payments to Participating Class Members, the Class Representative Enhancement Payment, Claims Administration Expenses, Class Counsel Fees and Cost, and PAGA penalties in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) of which 75% or seventy-five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) will be paid to the Labor Workforce Development Agency (“LWDA”) and 25% or twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) to Participating Class Members. Defendants’ share of payroll taxes will be paid in addition to the Gross Settlement Amount."},"rationale":"Although the definition calls the gross a non-reversionary maximum, it commits payment of the $800,000 fund in full and separately provides a contingent net-fund increase. It is an express stated base with conditions, not an inferred cap or estimate.","conditions":[{"page":12,"quote":"The parties agreed to cap shifts worked by Class Members at 125,000 shifts during the Class Period. In the event the total shift count is more than 125,000 shifts, the Net Settlement Amount shall increase by calculating the shift value of 125,000 shifts and then multiplying by the number of additional shifts over 125,000."},{"page":11,"quote":"Should 3% percent or more of Class Members opt-out of the settlement, Defendants have the sole right to void the Settlement Agreement."},{"page":16,"quote":"In the event that: (i) the Court does not finally approve the Settlement as provided in this Settlement Agreement; or (ii) the Settlement does not become final for any other reason, then this Settlement Agreement and any documents generated to bring it into effect will be null and void."},{"page":7,"quote":"Defendants shall have three years to fund the Gross Settlement Amount, starting on the date that the Court grants preliminary approval of the settlement. 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(“PAGA”) (75% will go to the California Labor & Workforce Development 26 Agency (“LWDA”) and 25% will go to Class Members)."},"rationale":"The operative agreement defines Defendant as Pocino and settles the class claims with an included PAGA allocation. The agency unit is labeled TS Employment, but the source caption and contracting parties identify this one economic settlement.","conditions":[{"page":3,"quote":"“Effective Date” means the date by which the Court’s order granting Final Approval of this 2 Joint Stipulation becomes final. Such order becomes final upon these events: (i) upon the Court 3 issuing an order granting Final Approval of this Joint Stipulation if no objections to the Settlement 4 are filed, or if an objection is filed but is withdrawn prior to the Final Approval Hearing; or (ii) if 5 there are written objections filed prior to the Final Approval Hearing which are not thereafter 6 withdrawn prior to the Hearing, the later of these events: (a) the day after the last day or 61 7 calendar days from the date of the Court’s order granting Final Approval, by which a Notice of 8 Appeal of the Order may be timely filed with the California Court of Appeal, and none is filed; (b) 9 if an appeal is filed and is finally disposed of by ruling, dismissal, denial, or otherwise, the day 10 after the last date for filing a request for further review of the Court of Appeal’s decision passes 11 and no further review is requested; (c) if an appeal is filed and there is a final disposition by ruling, 12 dismissal, denial, or otherwise by the Court of Appeal, and further review of the Court of Appeal’s 13 decision is requested, the day after the request for review is denied with prejudice and/or no further 14 review of the order can be requested; or (d) if review is accepted, the day the Supreme Court of the 15 State of California affirms the Settlement."},{"page":4,"quote":"The employer’s portion of the payroll 27 taxes will be paid outside of and in addition to the Gross Settlement Amount."},{"page":10,"quote":"The Parties agree that if the estimated workweeks of 50,000 increases by more than 5% 26 within the Class Period, the Net Settlement Amount will increase based on the workweek value 27 calculated off of 50,000 workweeks."},{"page":15,"quote":"If the number of Class Members who Opt-Out reaches 10%, Defendant may rescind this Joint Stipulation if the Parties cannot agree on appropriate modifications to the terms of this Agreement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $695,000 class-and-PAGA gross requires final approval and applicable appeal finality; employer payroll taxes are additional. 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It fixes a gross amount rather than a net or individual payment.","conditions":[{"page":3,"quote":"Defendants shall pay the employer’s share of payroll taxes separately and in addition to this Total Settlement Amount."},{"page":8,"quote":"This deposit shall be made by Defendants as follows: $350,000 paid 30 days after the Court’s final approval of the settlement agreement and the remaining $350,000 paid six months thereafter, or if there are objectors, after receiving final court approval of the Settlement and the expiration of the time to file appeals or the complete and final resolution of any appeals filed which includes the rendering of a decision, the time for further appeal has expired, and the trial court has regained jurisdiction; whichever is later."},{"page":9,"quote":"Defendants have certified that the number of work weeks all class members from May 9, 2013 through December 1, 2017 is 26,851. If the number of work weeks actually worked from May 9, 2013 through December 1, 2017 should exceed 26,851 by more than five percent (5%), Plaintiffs have the right to void the settlement agreement."},{"page":10,"quote":"A failure of the Court to approve any material condition of this Settlement which effects a fundamental change of the Parties’ Settlement, or any reversal or material modification of any ruling preliminarily or finally approving the Settlement on appellate review, shall render the entire"},{"page":11,"quote":"Settlement voidable and unenforceable as to all Parties herein at the option of any of the Parties."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $700,000 class-and-PAGA gross excludes employer payroll taxes. Payment is in two $350,000 installments after approval, subject to appeal finality. Plaintiffs may void if the certified 26,851 workweeks for May 9, 2013 through December 1, 2017 exceed that figure by more than 5%; any party may void for a material approval change."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T09:56:01.683485+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"7b59f1e82975dda7176ac33e9747c964702ff17f53d4617e410e950cef6e6c76","economicSettlementId":"lopez-gutierrez-intouch-bc619823-bc624693","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No exact baseline/current case or source overlap. The agreement itself consolidates two court cases into the same $700,000 settlement. Full-corpus court-number/party FTS found three outside originals; each actual context lists Lopez/InTouch among counsel’s other cases, not an operative settlement or amendment. 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If Plaintiff fails to satisfy this condition in strict compliance with 9 section 2699(l)(3) of the California Labor Code, the Settlement shall be voidable at 10 Defendant’s option."},{"page":7,"quote":"Within 17 forty-five (45) calendar days after the Court enters an Order approving the proposed 18 PAGA Settlement, Defendant will pay the LWDA Payment, the individual 19 payments to PAGA Settlement Group Members, and Plaintiff’s litigation costs (via 20 check made payable to the Barkhordarian Law Firm)."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $3,000 PAGA gross requires court approval, with payment within 45 calendar days of the approval order. 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Although the definition uses maximum, its nonreversionary undertaking, fixed funding installments totaling $200,000 and redistribution of opt-out shares establish the fixed base whole fund. The $10,000 PAGA allocation and fee/service amounts are components, not competing gross amounts.","conditions":[{"page":7,"quote":"Within ten (10) calendar days after the Court grants preliminary approval, Defendant shall deposit One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) into an interest-bearing Qualified Settlement Fund account to be established by the Claims Administrator. Within thirty (30) calendar days after the initial deposit of $100,000, Defendant shall deposit Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000) to the Qualified Settlement Fund, and shall continue to contribute Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000) per month for fifteen additional consecutive months and a final payment of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000) for the seventeenth month into said account."},{"page":7,"quote":"If the Court does not enter a Final Approval Order despite the Parties best efforts, then the Claims Administrator shall return all escrowed funds and all interest that has accrued to Defendant within ten (10) calendar days of the Court’s decision not to enter a Final Approval Order, and no additional payments will be due, with the exception of Defendant’s share of the Claims Administration’s costs."},{"page":11,"quote":"Defendant represents that there are 179 Class Members and 9,638 total workweeks during the Class Period. 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The employer must fully fund the stated gross after finality; the source separately specifies escalation/cutoff and opt-out rights. 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In this regard, it is the intention of the Parties that the Settlement shall not become effective until the Court’s order approving the Settlement is completely final, there is no further recourse by an appellant or objector who seeks to contest the Settlement (this process will be referred to herein as “the Settlement becomes final”), and the Maximum Settlement Amount has been provided to the Settlement Administrator."},{"page":4,"quote":"The Maximum Settlement Amount shall be paid by Defendant no later than thirty (30) calendar days after the Settlement becomes final."},{"page":5,"quote":"At the time of mediation, Defendant represented that there are an estimated 39,367 workweeks worked by the Settlement Class Members during the Class Period. If the number of actual total workweeks worked by Settlement Class Members during the Class Period, as reported to the Settlement Administrator following preliminary approval, exceeds this amount by more than 10% (i.e., if there are 43,304 or more total workweeks), Defendant will either: (1) pay an additional sum necessary to increase the Maximum Settlement Amount on a proportional basis (i.e., if there was a 15% increase in workweeks, Defendant would increase the Maximum Settlement Amount by 5%); or (2) elect to shorten the Class Period and PAGA Period (along with their associated releases) to a date that the total number of workweeks worked is at or under the 43,304 workweek threshold. Should this clause be triggered, Defendant will have five (5) business days (starting the day after receiving the preliminary calculations from the Settlement Administrator) to notify Class Counsel and the Settlement Administrator of Defendant’s option. 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The PARTIES acknowledge that the release on behalf of the State of California will extinguish any claims for civil penalties under PAGA that the Labor Commissioner could have brought on behalf of the PAGA GROUP MEMBERS or that any of the PAGA GROUP MEMBERS could have brought on behalf of the State of California against the RELEASED PARTIES for claims encompassed within the PAGA RELEASED CLAIMS."},"rationale":"Although the original Action included class claims, operative section 6.1 requires dismissal of non-PAGA claims including putative class claims. The group release and net distributions concern civil penalties; plaintiff separately gives a general release associated with the enhancement, with no separate class fund.","conditions":[{"page":4,"quote":"The ADMINISTRATOR will disburse the entire GROSS SETTLEMENT AMOUNT without asking or requiring AGGRIEVED EMPLOYEES to submit any claim as a condition of payment. 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If the actual number of pay periods during the PAGA PERIOD exceeds 4,934 by more than 10% (i.e., if there are 5,427.4 or more pay periods), DEFENDANTS may choose to either increase the GROSS SETTLEMENT AMOUNT on a proportional basis by the amount by which it exceeds"},{"page":8,"quote":"10% (i.e., if there was a 11% increase in the number of pay periods, DEFENDANTS would increase the GROSS SETTLEMENT AMOUNT by 1%), or cap the PAGA Period so that the PAGA Period ends on a date as of which the number of pay periods within the PAGA Period does not exceed 5,427 pay periods."},{"page":8,"quote":"DEFENDANTS shall fully fund the GROSS SETTLEMENT AMOUNT by transmitting the funds to the ADMINISTRATOR no later than thirty (30) days after the EFFECTIVE DATE."},{"page":14,"quote":"Unless otherwise noted, all reference to “days” in this AGREEMENT shall be to business days, defined as Monday through Friday. In the event any date or deadline set forth in this AGREEMENT falls on a weekend or federal legal holiday, such date or deadline shall be on the first business day thereafter."},{"page":10,"quote":"To the extent necessary to obtain approval of this settlement in full and final disposition of the ACTION, PLAINTIFF’S COUNSEL is responsible for securing dismissal of all claims asserted in the ACTION other than PAGA claims, including but not limited to claims asserted on behalf of a putative class."},{"page":12,"quote":"If another party appeals the Judgment, the PARTIES’ obligations to perform under this AGREEMENT will be suspended until such time as the appeal is finally resolved and the Judgment becomes final."},{"page":12,"quote":"This AGREEMENT is subject to and conditioned upon obtaining COURT approval under Labor Code Section 2699. The PARTIES expressly acknowledge that the COURT’s approval of this AGREEMENT is a condition precedent to any payments described in this AGREEMENT."},{"page":15,"quote":"Except as otherwise provided herein, a failure of the COURT to approve any material condition of this Settlement shall render the entire Settlement voidable and unenforceable as to PLAINTIFF and DEFENDANTS, at the option of PLAINTIFF or DEFENDANTS. Each party may exercise its option to void this Settlement as provided above by giving notice, in writing, to the other, and to the COURT within fifteen (15) COURT days after the Order granting approval of the settlement has been received by the party seeking to void the settlement, except that no party will be permitted to void the settlement if the settlement is not approved only because of a filing or administrative error or a request for additional information or documents by the court, in which case the parties will use their best efforts to remedy any error and supply the court with requested information."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $100,000 nonreversionary PAGA gross is fully payable within 30 business days after approval and judgment; the agreement defines unspecified days as business days. Above the 4,934-pay-period estimate plus a 10% buffer, defendants may increase gross by the percentage beyond that buffer or shorten the PAGA period to no more than 5,427 periods. Third-party appeal suspends performance. Either party may void for failure to approve a material condition by written notice within 15 court days after receiving the approval order, except specified filing, administrative or information-request issues."},"reviewedBy":"expansion_integration","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:54:11.627279+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"efaf2c49bac02b5afd96f5f4fe5c84692a67a72e8aa05feea4fff56d2c2ee9f3","economicSettlementId":"karen-martinez-skilled-yorba-linda-24cu025735c","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"Exact 24CU025735C and paired Karen Martinez/Yorba corpus locators identify only this original. Baseline and accepted-review checks found no same case/employer observation. Other plaintiffs with the surname Martinez are not treated as duplicates."}},{"reviewId":"batch-0024-lwda-cm-1058769-24-20261020","action":"add","recordId":"archive-lwda-cm-1058769-24-a8b2","recordSha256":"bc605dba51cc6f9668d9407b0fd45f87ed0cecad6e732eba4d33e104d5dbe5d2","sourceSha256":"a8b2096171e9090b522861db08dc04c59768acf00e0a72418bff7b8be28ac41c","sourcePage":2,"sourceBytes":1130728,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"0daec97071854c2969cdf765549d6d5b3494e3b57f3c699f511f1a7903610362","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"unclassified","rationale":"The operative consideration sentence spans physical pages 1–2 and fixes the entire gross at $85,000. The instrument expressly characterizes its payments as non-wage PAGA civil penalties but also separately prices an Individual Payment and requires a broader personal release. Preserve this combined scope as unclassified, without treating $85,000 as penalties distributed to employees or treating the $10,000 as a separately documented service award.","conditions":[{"page":2,"quote":"The Affected Employees are estimated to consist of approximately 49 individuals who worked approximately 1,261 Compensable Pay Periods. If the actual number of Compensable Pay Periods during the PAGA Period is more than ten percent (10%) above 1,261 the Defendant may elect to either 1) purchase the additional pay periods at a pro rata rate, or 2) cut off the release period as of the date the 10% cushion is exhausted. Defendant shall notify Plaintiff\" s counsel prior of its election prior to the filing of P laintiff's court approval of the PAGA settlement."},{"page":3,"quote":"Subject to Section 4 above, Defendant shall remit to the PAGA Settlement Administrator the sums described more fully in Section 3(a) above, after all of the following has occurred: (i) the Settlement Agreement is fully executed by all Parties and their counsel; and (ii) the Court has entered an order approving the Settlement Agreement. The funds shall be provided to the Settlement Administrator by Defendant within fifteen (15) days after Court approval of the Settlement Agreement."},{"page":2,"quote":"Court Approval is Required. Plaintiff understands and agrees that the State of California and Affected Employees, including Plaintiff, would not receive the consideration specified in Section 3(a) above, except for Plaintiff s execution of this Settlement Agreement, and the fulfillment of the promises contained herein, as well as Court approval of the Settlement. If this Settlement Agreement is not approved by the Court, it shall be null and void."}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated $85,000 gross is subject to court approval and execution. If pay periods exceed 1,261 by more than 10%, Illumio may buy additional periods pro rata or cut off the release period when the cushion is exhausted. Funding is due within fifteen days after approval. The gross includes a separately labeled individual payment of up to $10,000 and the representative PAGA fund."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:49:25.293125+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"0d6cb0e33ca52578b1e2dd8ae46855e2540cf9c0c81ff07e3d91b21373fca93d","economicSettlementId":"haniff-illumio-25cv457611","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No current same-case/source/label observation. Court-ID and party FTS yields only these two originals. Recital court-number discrepancy is reconciled to same actual parties/LWDA notice and complaint, not a second settlement."}},{"reviewId":"batch-0024-lwda-cm-1059586-24-20261020","action":"add","recordId":"archive-lwda-cm-1059586-24-058c","recordSha256":"1d5bc225de5bb55ef8f4f0d6e83288ece35b075b45974e99ed8eebbf51038c2a","sourceSha256":"058c808ba8cd5cd8a0af38ff0ab642c7ddca50098d58c7a7346d38d51cd2f7fe","sourcePage":3,"sourceBytes":1373180,"sourceTextBasis":"ocr-visual","sourcePageTextSha256":"ea6847e50aef99381fd55800e8c19deb17a9db5efff0c3d634a72865672be381","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"paga-only","scopeEvidence":{"page":3,"quote":"“Net Settlement Amount” (“NSA”) means the Maximum Settlement Amount minus the sum of Attorneys’ fees and costs, Plaintiff’s enhancement award, and settlement administration costs. The LWDA will be paid 65% of the NSA. The PAGA Employees will be paid the remaining 35% of the NSA, which shall be referred to as the “PAGA Employee Fund.”"},"rationale":"The source defines a fixed $850,000 total and expressly requires payment of the entire MSA once approval/effectiveness occur. The net is a representative PAGA fund. The separately labeled $10,000 enhancement and associated personal release do not turn this gross into an individual wage settlement. The document refers to a separate individual agreement without giving its price; no sum is added or inferred.","conditions":[{"page":5,"quote":"Provided that the Court approves the Settlement and the Effective Date occurs, Defendant will pay the Maximum Settlement Amount."},{"page":2,"quote":"“Effective Date” means the date when the Los Angeles Superior Court’s signed Order granting approval of the Settlement becomes final and is no longer appealable."},{"page":7,"quote":"Should the number of pay periods worked by the PAGA Employees increase by more than 10% above 55,039 biweekly pay periods (i.e., by more than 60,543 total biweekly pay periods), Defendant shall have an option to either: (1) have the Released PAGA Claims be released only for 60,543 biweekly pay periods; or (2) increase the MSA on a pro-rata basis equal to the percentage increase in the number of pay periods worked by the PAGA Employees above 60,543."},{"page":8,"quote":"No later than the first business day fourteen (14) days after the Effective Date, Defendants will wire the settlement funds to the Administrator."}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated $850,000 PAGA gross depends on approval and the defined Effective Date after finality and appeals. If biweekly pay periods exceed 60,543 (the stated 10% cushion above 55,039), Defendant may limit released periods to 60,543 or increase gross pro rata above that threshold. Funding is due no later than the first business day fourteen days after the Effective Date."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:49:25.293125+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"d6be98a9b558c6a6f60d636cb669a156598abc9382e721081abb2270f685e4ed","economicSettlementId":"tondro-lancaster-24stcv28868","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No current same-case/source or actual party observation. The only broad label match is Palmdale Glass & Mirror, a different employer and case, not Lancaster Hospital. Court-ID and Tondro/Lancaster FTS identify only this original."},"supportingPageVerification":[{"physicalPage":5,"sourcePageTextSha256":"5af84d3864e5df341f9aef3c0b0271beece92d41cf4a9e9efcc7e9cdebb165fc","renderSha256":"3c97e62e2228b9fc8fe9b8be474dd5bd480d2202977a493d50f31fd4fc5973fc","visualReview":{"completed":true,"quoteVerified":true,"contextVerified":true,"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:58:22.754739+00:00"}},{"physicalPage":2,"sourcePageTextSha256":"5cc95601e73e896070d365de77f656e02ee6184ad6e746dcda9a407b0260236d","renderSha256":"1ad549dd8232bb9caf01e2aa65c6b73cd87365e9339cb696d982673293181ccd","visualReview":{"completed":true,"quoteVerified":true,"contextVerified":true,"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:58:22.754739+00:00"}},{"physicalPage":7,"sourcePageTextSha256":"da1a2223fc4e16fd1418f9c28d96868aaada23f70d180da0c9031ef06232f3b6","renderSha256":"4258171657b4fede3eefcd26498457a72e7e18b909c4368b6792ac2ef1700991","visualReview":{"completed":true,"quoteVerified":true,"contextVerified":true,"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:58:22.754739+00:00"}},{"physicalPage":8,"sourcePageTextSha256":"feeb68e4eb3362adf352cb775cca8f5e74645e372f09223d4454daae9940c9eb","renderSha256":"227f58d1e127fd84db7f918ca5e63d60aca84337c1840d48b001833c3404bb8b","visualReview":{"completed":true,"quoteVerified":true,"contextVerified":true,"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:58:22.754739+00:00"}}]},{"reviewId":"batch-0024-lwda-cm-1068762-24-20261020","action":"replace","recordId":"LWDA-CM-1068762-24","recordSha256":"f2b8fd686dc10ef75b7cd18460e9fc47c6593fecb2eae9df61e7f28af95b0be9","sourceSha256":"45eb2d0f767c36555c3804d2034f6e11ae4e41151e54e9563716fd23866b348a","sourcePage":4,"sourceBytes":8491258,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"0394a1c50d7aefaac5563788e7cebc09eaabde0189dc442491ffa4d3bdafec84","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"paga-only","scopeEvidence":{"page":6,"quote":"The judgment will not release or bar any claims other than the PAGA Released Claims as to Plaintiff and Aggrieved Employees."},"rationale":"The actual operative payment clause states Fifty Thousand Dollars and $50,000 consistently. Page 1 instead spells Fifty Thousand Five Hundred while printing $50,000; the operative clause, stated numeric definition and 35% fee estimate all support the $50,000 base, and the discrepancy is explicitly retained. The judgment/release is expressly limited to PAGA despite individual claims in the separately reviewed complaint.","conditions":[{"page":4,"quote":"FNV represents that the number of pay periods at issue for the PAGA Group for the period of December 17, 2023 to June 2, 2025, is approximately 5,036 pay periods. Should the number of pay periods during the PAGA Period be greater than this amount by more than 10%, the Gross Settlement will increase proportionately over the 10% grace (i.e., meaning ifthe pay periods are greater than this amount by 11% the Gross Settlement will increase by 1%). However, if the escalator clause is triggered, Defendant may alternatively choose to end the PAGA Period on the date that the increase would otherwise be triggered."},{"page":4,"quote":"FNV shall deposit the Gross Settlement Amount into a Qualified Settlement Account set up by the Settlement Administrator and agrees to fund the Settlement within fifteen (15) court days of the Effective Date."},{"page":5,"quote":"If the Court does not approve the Settlement, if the Court does not enter judgment as provided for in this Settlement Agreement, or if appellate review is sought and, on such review, the Court's decision is materially modified or reversed, or if one or more of the material terms of the Settlement Agreement is not approved or is materially modified or reversed or found to be invalid, then either of the Parties shall have the right within ten (10) calendar days of written notice thereof to elect to terminate the Settlement Agreement, in which case the Settlement Agreement shall have no force or effect, and the Parties shall be deemed to have reverted to their respective status as of the date and time immediately prior to the execution of this Settlement Agreement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The operative $50,000 non-reversionary PAGA gross increases proportionately above a 10% cushion on 5,036 pay periods, unless Defendant instead ends the PAGA period at the trigger. Funding is due fifteen court days after the defined Effective Date, which depends on approval and any appeals. Specified approval failures or material changes permit termination after good-faith efforts to obtain approval."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:49:25.293125+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"4d2969e164892c6c4fcf9b55f577450ec759717aad75d12253836b7986534b3f","economicSettlementId":"ramirez-farm-napa-24cv002232-24cv002270","duplicateResolution":{"status":"supersedes","comparedObservationIds":["LWDA-CM-1068762-24"],"rationale":"Replace the existing $50,000 same-source observation with exact conditions and source discrepancy, not a second amount. The agreement expressly resolves both named Napa actions. The separately archived December 17, 2024 notice identifies the same claimant/employment and defendants and matches the notice specifically recited on agreement page 3; one economic settlement is linked to that LWDA case, without extending the operative release to every notice addressee."},"linkedCaseEvidence":[{"caseId":"LWDA-CM-1067963-24","sourceSha256":"636b251b829979dd132043cda6a0ba173e8a1ff029095d9406f4957c4a0faae7","sourceBytes":196893,"sourcePageCount":19,"sourcePage":2,"sourceQuote":"This PAGA Notice concerns FRANCELI NIETO RAMIREZ’s (“Employee”) employment with Employee’s former employers: FARM NAPA VALLEY, LLC; JOHN ANTHONY WINE & SPIRITS, LLC, JOHN ANTHONY TRUCHARD, JOHN ANTHONY WINE & SPIRITS II, LLC, JT SPIRITS LLC, JAM CELLARS, INC, JOHN ANTHONY VINEYARDS LLC, JAFW VINEYARDS LLC (“Employer”). Employee was employed as a non-exempt employee of Employer, at without limitation, 1091 Thompson Ave, CA 94558, with duties that included, but were not limited to, cleaning premises, from approximately September of 2019 through approximately July of 2024.","sourcePageTextSha256":"d3e39d0d060c90b0f9365a70d4cd155c1d2fc65ef5601a7869da83f492bd2ea9","relationshipRationale":"The actual December 17, 2024 notice identifies Franceli Nieto Ramirez, Farm Napa, John Anthony Wine & Spirits II and the September 2019–July 2024 employment described by the actual FAC. Agreement page 3 specifically recites her December 17, 2024 LWDA notice to Defendants; page 1 names both Napa actions and page 2 defines the release through the complaint/pre-filing notice. This binds the separately archived notice case to the same PAGA settlement without declaring that every additional notice addressee or all broader claims are released."}],"prior":{"id":"LWDA-CM-1068762-24","recordSha256":"42dbfacf95d559c2550b0ba25defec2c3fce6db5548cc54cb9ac484d6496ecfe"}},{"reviewId":"batch-0024-lwda-cm-214403-17-20261020","action":"add","recordId":"archive-lwda-cm-214403-17-73d6","recordSha256":"34f3270123bad64493c4294cafafde3fb042068240ac40fa5284c27e246f0ca6","sourceSha256":"73d6aac0c9adbb52c4271cdb8b4515c4d32400af24930f20441d68e8cbbfb3f4","sourcePage":6,"sourceBytes":859117,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"f39ab22b5a44f96d51c3b3f8a9468f1b254574dac6a03839057a04ea3ec66141","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"class-and-paga","scopeEvidence":{"page":6,"quote":"This amount includes, without limitation, Plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees and costs as determined by the Court, payment of $2,500 to the State of California’s Labor & Workforce Development Agency as payment for Plaintiff’s Private Attorney General Act claim (“PAGA”), an enhancement payment of up to $10,000 to the Class Representative, all claims paid to Class Members, and any cy pres payments."},"rationale":"The quoted clause says no more than $250,000, but the same operative page requires the remaining settlement funds to be paid in full, distributes the entire net among valid claimants or cy pres, and the attached notice expressly states an agreed $250,000 gross. No claims-made reduction or employer reversion is stated. This is the stated gross with conditions, not proof that all installments were paid.","conditions":[{"page":6,"quote":"Defendant shall pay the settlement funds to the Claims Administrator pursuant to the following schedule: a. $75,000 will be paid 75 days after Notice of Entry of Class Judgment; and b. $5,000 per month will be paid thereafter until all remaining settlement funds are paid in full."},{"page":3,"quote":"In the event that the Court does not execute and file an Order Granting Final Approval of Settlement, or in the event that the Court does not enter the Judgment, or in the event that the associated Judgment does not become Final for any reason, this Stipulation shall be deemed null and void ab initio, it shall be of no force or effect whatsoever, it shall not be referred to or utilized for any substantive purpose whatsoever, and the negotiation, terms and entry of it shall remain subject to the provisions of Federal Rule of Evidence 408 and California Evidence Code sections 1119 and 1152."},{"page":8,"quote":"Defendant may withdraw from Settlement before final approval if more than 3% (three percent) of class members opt-out."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $250,000 class-and-PAGA gross is payable in installments: $75,000 seventy-five days after notice of entry of class judgment, then $5,000 monthly until the remaining settlement funds are paid in full. The settlement depends on final approval and final judgment; Kit Kat may withdraw before final approval if more than 3% opt out."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:49:25.293125+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"a1d0a5151f9f5a2abcdf078db46ae9c30b36bf34ea206881dcf17bf987add6c5","economicSettlementId":"roe-kit-kat-17cv311879","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No current same-case/source/label observation. Court-ID searches find only this source. The outside Kit Kat phrase occurs in Salazar v. AutoZone, 37-2017-00007128-CU-WT-CTL, concerning a candy bar; fresh original caption and page context establish a false positive, not an economic link."}},{"reviewId":"batch-0024-lwda-cm-871414-22-20261020","action":"add","recordId":"archive-lwda-cm-871414-22-3fe0","recordSha256":"91aae25bd8cfe47830069d198f4e6fc964679297455bd8271feda853c44ffe3c","sourceSha256":"3fe037c5044cae42ade924c60a4699e2e011a803b1ad316c28888e469d7b23bb","sourcePage":7,"sourceBytes":374052,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"114a3404ef702fa0a4d1ce93c22e71bd35ac5dc37a77869eefa78d096c16f777","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"paga-only","scopeEvidence":{"page":5,"quote":"After reviewing the arbitration agreement and discussing the same, Plaintiff and Plaintiff’s 4 Counsel agreed to dismiss his individual and class claims without prejudice and proceed solely with 5 the PAGA cause of action."},"rationale":"The author’s own approval motion expressly calls $89,000 the agreed Gross Settlement Amount and directly describes its allocations and escalator. It is not an authority quotation or modeled exposure. The motion states individual/class claims were dismissed and only PAGA proceeded; the $5,000 allocation is for assisting the lawsuit and a personal release, not a separately described individual wage settlement.","conditions":[{"page":7,"quote":"However, should the 4 number of pay checks exceed 4,300 by more than 5%, the Gross Settlement Amount will increase 5 pro rata at a rate of $20.69 per additional pay period."},{"page":4,"quote":"Under Labor Code § 2699(l)(2), the Court must review and approve any proposed PAGA 17 settlement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The approval motion states an $89,000 PAGA gross, subject to court approval. It reports an increase at $20.69 per additional pay period if pay checks exceed 4,300 by more than 5%. The underlying agreement and any actual adjusted funding are not in the reviewed packet."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T10:49:25.293125+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"f1e47abff730df578dbc0922d5319860f26735f3e09ce74cd7225ff4d2d0c08a","economicSettlementId":"wilcoxen-wyvern-msc22-00413","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No current same-case/source/label observation. Court-ID and party FTS return only the motion and earlier FAC; no separate settlement or amendment appears."}},{"reviewId":"batch-0027-lwda-cm-159999-16-20261020","action":"add","recordId":"LWDA-CM-159999-16","recordSha256":"25ccac3c8a448bb5356141697be465ac4195f4582a0f9a9df4f553893ca1928c","sourceSha256":"a261d4d08391f5da40b7bbf1f940c369f91e98628aa0a92feeefe6b4db19249a","sourcePage":7,"sourceBytes":1155090,"sourceTextBasis":"ocr-visual","sourcePageTextSha256":"f4a48ce035060d0c77a0093dc415b11077c721d27b412ed7de524c61e70ca0c8","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"paga-only","scopeEvidence":{"page":7,"quote":"The Settlement Group Payment Amount shall constitute the share of PAGA penalties recoverable by the Settlement Group Members pursuant to Section 2699(i) of PAGA."},"rationale":"The remaining settlement concerns civil PAGA penalties for rounding and longevity-bonus violations. Physical page 5 identifies the separate $25,001 individual/class arbitration settlement; page 26 states earlier settlements covered wages and other penalty periods. No class wage fund is included here.","conditions":[{"page":11,"quote":"The Gross Settlement Amount shall be transferred by California Commerce Club for payments by the Administrator as directed by the Administrator within thirty (30) calendar days of the Settlement Effective Date.."},{"page":3,"quote":"“Settlement Effective Date” means the first day following the last of the following occurrences:"},{"page":3,"quote":"Thirty-one (31) calendar days after the date of the entry of the Final Judgment and Order of Dismissal; or"},{"page":3,"quote":"If an appeal or other judicial review has been taken, the latest of: (i) the date the Final Judgment and Order of Dismissal is finally affirmed by an appellate court with no possibility of subsequent appeal or other judicial review therefrom; or (ii) the date the appeal(s) or other judicial review therefrom are finally dismissed with no possibility of subsequent appeal or other judicial review; or (iii) if remanded to the trial court or to a lower appellate court following appeal or other review, the date the Final Judgment and Order of Dismissal is entered by the trial court after remand and the time to appeal or seek permission to appeal or to seek other judicial review following remand has expired with no further appeals or other judicial review having been taken or sought. If further appeals are sought or taken after a remand, the time periods in this Sub-Section shall apply."},{"page":14,"quote":"Subject to the provisions of Section 13.2 and 13.3, in the event that this Settlement is not approved, or if for any reason the Settlement Effective Date does not occur, the Settlement Agreement shall be deemed null, void, and unenforceable and shall not be used nor shall it be admissible in any subsequent proceedings in this Court or in any other judicial, arbitral, administrative, investigative, or other court, tribunal, forum, or other proceeding, or other litigation against California Commerce Club, and the Parties shall return to their respective positions prior to the Execution of this Agreement."},{"page":14,"quote":"In the event that the Court reduces the Attorneys’ Fees and Litigation Expenses requested by Settlement Group Members’ Counsel, that finding shall not be a basis for rendering the entire Settlement Agreement null, void, or unenforceable."},{"page":14,"quote":"In the event that the Court reduces the Service Payments in the amount requested by Settlement Group Members’ Counsel, that finding shall not be a basis for rendering the entire Settlement Agreement null, void, or unenforceable."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $635,000 nonreversionary PAGA gross is payable in full within 30 calendar days of the Settlement Effective Date. 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In the event the number of Pay Periods worked 18 by the Aggrieved Employees increase by more than 10%, Defendants shall 19 have the option of either: (i) increasing the Gross Settlement Amount on a 20 pro-rata basis equal to the percentage increase in the number of Pay Periods 21 worked by the Aggrieved Employees above 10% (for example, if the 22 number of pay periods increases by 11%, the Gross Settlement Amount will 23 increase by 1%), or (ii) shorten the release period to an earlier date at which 24 only 21,056 pay periods plus an additional 10% are covered by the 25 Settlement Period."},{"page":6,"quote":"Funding of the Settlement. Within thirty (30) days after entry of the Order and 24 Judgment, Defendants shall deposit Two Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($220,000) into the QSF to 25 be established by the Settlement Administrator."},{"page":8,"quote":"Nullification of Settlement Agreement. In the event that: (i) the Court does not approve 13 the Settlement as provided herein; or (ii) the Settlement does not become final for any other reason, then 14 this Settlement Agreement, and any documents generated to bring it into effect, including but not limited 15 to the Amended Complaint, will be null and void, and the Parties will be returned to their original 16 respective positions."},{"page":2,"quote":"This Settlement is expressly conditioned on the filing of the agreed-upon amended 20 complaint and should Plaintiff fail or refuse to do so, Defendant will have the right to withdraw from the 21 Settlement pursuant to Paragraph 28."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $440,000 non-reversionary PAGA gross is conditioned on the agreed amended complaint, approval and finality. Above a 10% cushion on 21,056 pay periods, Defendants may proportionately increase gross above the cushion or shorten the period. Funding is two $220,000 installments: thirty days after entry of the order, then within eight months of the first deposit but no later than October 1, 2026."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T11:05:10.713630+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"eb236c7591270b2f7641d8c18bdb8bd4504a55f8ccb7f22017679048d0669952","economicSettlementId":"durante-big-league-stk-cv-uoe-2024-0001461","duplicateResolution":{"status":"supersedes","comparedObservationIds":["LWDA-CM-1012157-24"],"rationale":"Replace the same-case $440,000 existing observation, preserving its ID and exact prior-record hash. Agreement and later order show one economic settlement. Court-ID search also found a counsel-experience list in Santizo/Lee litigation under LWDA-CM-1031753-24: its cited Dameron Hospital matter uses 2023-0001461, not this 2024-0001461, and the original caption and actual page context demonstrate no economic link. 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The contingent individual-only fallback is not treated as the operative settlement because the same original contains an actual approval order. The separate separation agreement is referenced but neither its price nor terms are supplied here.","conditions":[{"page":10,"quote":"In consideration of the executed terms and conditions of this Agreement and the dismissal of the Action with prejudice, and conditioned upon the Court’s approval of the settlement to ensure compliance with California Labor Code §§ 2699(k)(1)(2) and 2699(k)(1)(3), Defendant shall pay One Hundred Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($100,000.00) as the Gross Settlement Amount."},{"page":11,"quote":"Within thirty days of Court approval of the Joint Stipulation of Settlement, Defendant shall cause funds equal to the Gross Settlement Amount to be transmitted to a Qualified Settlement Fund administered by the Claims Administrator, from which all payments, including payment of the Administration Costs shall be satisfied."},{"page":12,"quote":"If the Court does not approve this settlement, or if the Court does not dismiss the Action with prejudice as provided for in this Settlement Agreement, or if appellate review is sought and on such review the Court’s decision is materially modified or reversed, or if one or more of the terms of the Settlement Agreement are not approved or is materially modified or reversed or found to be invalid, or if any of the PAGA Settlement Employees successfully objects to block the Settlement, then Plaintiffs shall revise the Settlement Agreement to provide only for the release of Plaintiffs individual claims with prejudice and a dismissal of other employee PAGA claims without prejudice, if the revised Settlement Agreement is rejected by the court then the parties will meet and confer but shall have the right upon ten (10) days written notice thereof to elect to terminate the Settlement Agreement, in which event it shall have no force or effect, and the parties shall be deemed to have reverted to their respective status as of the date and time immediately prior to the execution of this Settlement Agreement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated $100,000 gross requires executed terms, dismissal with prejudice and court approval; full funding is due within thirty days after approval. If specified approval, appellate or employee-objection failures occur, the instrument calls for a proposed individual-claim fallback and then permits termination if that revision is rejected. The retained filed order approves the PAGA settlement."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T11:05:10.713630+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"6d61516aff7d60505992c0b877c67408c7e24d3024168f1334af8b7672a71f31","economicSettlementId":"lopez-hernandez-enamorado-cagwin-civ1602964-civ1704344","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"One economic settlement expressly resolves both named consolidated court actions. Exact duplicate AP uploads share the same SHA within the same LWDA case. 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A modification of the Plaintiff's Counsel's Fees and Expenses Payment will not be deemed a material modification of the Settlement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $215,000 gross settles Plaintiff’s state PAGA seating claim, subject to approval and finality; unresolved material approval or appellate changes can void it. The net is allocated 75% to the LWDA and 25% to the named Plaintiff, not to a pooled employee fund. The retained order approved the settlement on December 11, 2018."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T11:05:10.713630+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"7e26c6c6e1774ec15273e885aa8507131cdb8b2866f501280813cef026504821","economicSettlementId":"delacruz-dollar-tree-bc680173","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No existing same-case/source/party observation. Court-ID and party FTS return only this agreement and its approval/fee orders. 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If the number of Settlement Group Members exceeds this estimate by more than 15%, (i.e. exceeds 264) Plaintiff shall have the option to void this Agreement. . The settlement is non-reversionary, such that the entire Gross Settlement Amount will be disbursed."},{"page":8,"quote":"Timing of Settlement Payments. Within ten (10) business days after the Court Order is signed approving the Settlement, the Settlement Administrator will provide Defendants with wire transfer information. Within ten (10) business days after the Settlement Administrator provides Defendants with wire transfer information, Defendants will transfer the Total Settlement Amount to the Settlement Administrator via wire transfer."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $75,000 non-reversionary PAGA gross is fixed, subject to approval; it does not increase. The agreement permits Plaintiff to void it if the estimated 230 members exceed the stated 15% threshold of 264. Funding follows approval and delivery of wire instructions. 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The express escalator qualifies the base rather than making it an unresolved maximum. The representative’s $2,500 service award and personal release do not establish a separately priced individual wage settlement.","conditions":[{"page":8,"quote":"If it is determined that the actual number of pay periods in the PAGA Period exceeds 33,326 by more than 10% (36,658 pay periods), Defendant shall have the option to either: (a) increase by 1% for every 1% over the 10% threshold, or (b) end the PAGA Period on the date the number of pay periods worked by aggrieved employees equals 36,658."},{"page":5,"quote":"Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator within fourteen (14) days of the Effective Date."},{"page":1,"quote":"“Effective Date” means be the date on which the Court’s order approving the settlement and its entry of judgment becomes Final."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $225,000 non-reversionary PAGA gross is subject to approval and finality. 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Subject to Court approval, the Parties agree that the Net Settlement Amount shall be distributed to the LWDA and Aggrieved Employees as follows: PAGA Penalties (which is the Net Settlement Amount) to be paid from the Gross Settlement Amount, with 75% allocated to the LWDA PAGA Payment and 25% allocated to the Employee Payments."},"rationale":"The source both defines the total and requires its complete distribution without claims or reversion, subject to the express escalator. All employee/state net is PAGA penalties. The representative service payment and personal release do not show a separately priced wage settlement.","conditions":[{"page":5,"quote":"Pay Period Size Estimates and Escalator Clause. Based on its records, Defendant estimates that, as of the date of mediation, the alleged Aggrieved Employees worked 8,288 Pay Periods during the PAGA Period. The Parties agree that if as of the end of the PAGA Period the actual number of Pay Periods is more than 10% larger than the estimated number of 8,288 Pay Periods (i.e., more than 829 pay periods), then, at Defendant’s option, the Gross Settlement shall either increase by one percent (1%) for each one percent (1%) that the actual number of Pay Periods exceeds the ten percent (10%) threshold, or the Defendant may shorten the PAGA Period by adjusting the end date so that the total number of Pay Periods does not exceed 9,117."},{"page":8,"quote":"Funding of Gross Settlement Amount. Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator no later than 20 calendar days after the Effective Date, for administration and distribution in accordance with this Settlement Agreement and the Court’s orders."},{"page":11,"quote":"Nullification of Agreement. In the event that the Court does not approve the Agreement or the Agreement does not become final for any other reason, this Agreement and any documents generated to bring it into effect will become null and void and the Parties will be returned to their original respective positions as though this Agreement had never been entered into at all."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $165,760 non-reversionary PAGA gross is subject to court approval and finality. On more than 10% growth above 8,288 estimated periods, Defendant may increase gross 1% for each 1% above the cushion or shorten coverage to 9,117 periods. 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FAC class allegations do not create a class settlement: paragraph 6.2 calls for their dismissal without prejudice. The exact adjustment alternative is retained rather than silently presenting a final paid amount.","conditions":[{"page":1,"quote":"“Effective Date” means the date by when both of the following have occurred: (a) the Court enters a Judgment on its Order Approving the PAGA Settlement and (b) the Judgment is final."},{"page":4,"quote":"None of the Gross Settlement Amount will revert to Defendant unless the Court does not approve the Agreement."},{"page":5,"quote":"Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator no later than 7 calendar days after the Effective Date."},{"page":7,"quote":"Based on its records, Defendant estimates that, as of March 4, 2025, there are 191 PAGA Group Members who worked a total of 5,066 Pay Periods during the PAGA Period. The Parties agree that if the number of total number of Pay Periods ends up exceeding 5,066 Pay Periods by more than 10% (i.e., 5,573 or more pay periods), then Defendant agrees that either: 1) the Gross Settlement Amount shall increase by 1% for every 1% over the threshold of 5,573 Pay Periods; or (2) Defendant can change the end date for the “PAGA Period” to the date the total number of Pay Periods reached 5,573 as long as it makes the election before the Court enters the final Judgment."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $175,000 stated gross depends on court approval and is due within seven calendar days after the defined Effective Date and final judgment. If pay periods exceed the 5,066 estimate by more than 10% (the source specifies 5,573 or more), defendant may increase gross 1% per 1% above 5,573 or elect before final judgment to end the PAGA period when 5,573 is reached."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T12:36:57.222298+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"82f3f13a8a0525d6ee8650058f20ef15da21bba95457a690e7643dac505d1a9f","economicSettlementId":"settlement-1031506-24-f059263cbba3","duplicateResolution":{"status":"supersedes","comparedObservationIds":["LWDA-CM-1031506-24"],"rationale":"Explicit correction of the baseline observation. Same case and original as the historical $175,000 observation; one explicit replacement, not another fund. 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The later signed/filed order corroborates the same gross and consistent deductions. The plaintiff exception in the individual-wage reservation does not create an expressly priced individual settlement or broaden the defined Settled Claims.","conditions":[{"page":3,"quote":"Defendants estimate that Aggrieved Employees worked an aggregate total 26 of approximately Fifty Thousand (50,000) Pay Periods during the 27 Settlement Period. If the actual aggregate total of Pay Periods worked 28 during the Settlement Period is greater than Ten Percent (10%) of this"},{"page":4,"quote":"estimate, then Defendants must either: (a) increase the Gross Settlement 2 Amount proportionately for each Pay Period above the Ten Percent (10%) 3 allowance (e.g., if the total number of Pay Periods increases by 11%, the 4 Gross Settlement Amount will increase by 1%); or (b) advance the end date 5 of the Settlement Period to the last date on which the total number of Pay 6 Periods worked by Aggrieved Employees in aggregate during the 7 Settlement Period is no greater than Fifty-Five Thousand (55,000)."},{"page":5,"quote":"Funding of the Settlement. Within fourteen (14) calendar days after entry of the Order 4 and Judgment, assuming the Settlement Administrator has provided payment instructions to Defendants, 5 Defendants will deposit the Gross Settlement Amount into the QSF to be established by the Settlement 6 Administrator."},{"page":6,"quote":"Nullification of Settlement Agreement. In the event that: (i) the Court does not approve 19 the Settlement as provided herein; or (ii) the Settlement does not become final for any other reason, then 20 this Settlement Agreement, and any documents generated to bring it into effect, will be null and void, 21 and the Parties will be returned to their original respective positions."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $697,500 stated gross is nonreversionary, subject to approval, and due within 14 calendar days after entry of the order and judgment assuming the administrator has supplied payment instructions. 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If it is determined that the number of PAGA Pay Periods during the PAGA Release Period exceeds 6,151 by more than 10% (i.e., exceeds 6,766 pay periods), then Defendants may elect to either: (a) end the PAGA Release Period on the date on which the number of pay periods reached 6,766, or (b) increase the Total Settlement Amount proportionately for each additional pay period worked above the 10% threshold. For example, if such increase in pay periods is 12% over 6,151, the Total Settlement Amount will increase by 2%."},{"page":9,"quote":"Defendants’ payment obligations under the Settlement will be suspended pending an appeal of the Judgment."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $250,000 stated gross is nonreversionary and due within 15 days after the defined Effective Date requiring execution, LWDA transmission, approval and final judgment; payment obligations pause during appeal. 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VS 225 N. EVERGREEN ST., INC., A CALIFORNIA STOCK CORPORATION, Case No. 24STCV16343, initiated on July 1, 2024, and pending in Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles."},"rationale":"The own-case instrument expressly defines the Action as PAGA penalties only and funds LWDA/employee penalties plus fees, administration and a representative award. The personal general release is disclosed; no separate individual damages price is invented. The source states one conditional gross, not the net penalty allocation.","conditions":[{"page":2,"quote":"“Effective Date” means the date by when both of the following have occurred: (a) the Court enters an order Approving the PAGA Settlement and (b) the order is final. The order is final the day it is entered by the Court."},{"page":6,"quote":"Funding of Gross Settlement Amount. Within five (5) business days after the Effective Date, the Administrator shall send Defendant’s Counsel electronic wiring instructions to fund the Gross Settlement Amount. Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator no later than thirty (30) days after the Effective Date."},{"page":10,"quote":"Based on its records, Defendant estimates that there are 109 Aggrieved Employees who worked a total of 1,052 Pay Periods in the PAGA Period. In the event the actual number of Aggrieved Employee Pay Periods in the PAGA Period is more than ten-percent higher than this estimated amount (i.e., more than 1,157) then, at Defendant’s election, either (a) the Gross Settlement Amount shall increase on a proportional basis equal to the percentage increase in the number of Pay Periods exceeding 10% (e.g. if the excess is 15%, the Gross Settlement Amount may increase by 5%, if the excess is 25%, the Gross Settlement Amount may increase by 15%), or (b) the PAGA Period shall be redefined to be a period beginning on April 26, 2023, and ending on a date as of which the number of Aggrieved Employee Pay Periods does not exceed 1,157."},{"page":10,"quote":"If an Aggrieved Employee or another party appeals the Judgment, the Parties’ obligations to perform under this Agreement will be suspended until such time as the appeal is finally resolved and the Judgment becomes final."},{"page":10,"quote":"Voiding the Agreement: The Settlement Agreement shall be voidable and unenforceable as to all Parties herein at the option of either Party if (a) the Court should for any reason fail to approve this Settlement in the form agreed to by the Parties, or (b) the Court should for any reason fail to enter a judgment, or (c) the approval of the Settlement and judgment is reversed, modified or declared or rendered void."}],"conditionsSummary":"The stated $55,000 gross is non-reversionary and subject to court approval and the pay-period escalator: above the stated 1,157-pay-period threshold, Defendant may increase gross proportionally for the percentage exceeding the 10% cushion or shorten the PAGA period to that threshold. 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If the number of actual PAGA pay periods during the PAGA Period as verified by the Administrator exceeds 15% of the estimated pay periods (i.e., exceeds 16,330 pay periods), Defendants shall either (1) increase the Maximum Settlement Amount by a pro-rata dollar value equal to the number of pay periods in excess of 16,330 pay periods, or (2) cut off the release period as of the date the 15% cushion is exhausted. For example, if there is a 1% increase over 15% then the Maximum Settlement Amount increases by 1%. The Administrator will be responsible for determining and notifying the Parties whether the pay period count triggers this modification of the Maximum Settlement Amount within seven (7) calendar days after receiving the Pay Period Count as specified in Paragraph 16. In the event that the Administrator notifies Defendants that the modification contemplated by this Paragraph has been triggered, Defendants will notify the Parties and the Administrator within seven (7) calendar days whether it will elect to modify the Maximum Settlement Amount or to cut off the release period as specified in this Paragraph."},{"page":9,"quote":"Nullification of Settlement Agreement: If the Court does not grant the motion for approval of this Settlement or conditions its approval on any material change to this Agreement other than a change to the Maximum Settlement Amount as specified in Paragraph 4, the Parties will expeditiously work together, and in good faith, to modify the Agreement and otherwise satisfy the Court’s concerns. In the event that (i) the Court does not approve the Settlement as provided herein and following modification subject to this Paragraph, or (ii) the Settlement does not become final for any other reason, then this Settlement Agreement, and any documents generated to bring it into effect, will be null and void, and the Parties will be returned to their original respective positions before the Settlement was executed."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $315,000 maximum is non-reversionary, subject to court approval and Paragraph 15. If verified pay periods exceed 16,330 (the 15% cushion over 14,200), Defendants elect a proportional gross increase above the cushion or a release-period cutoff. Funding is due within 30 calendar days after approval order and judgment. 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(“Defendants”)."},"rationale":"The operative authorial instrument itself binds named class representatives and defendants to resolve class and representative PAGA claims, with an express gross and separate PAGA allocation. Three retained LWDA associations share exactly this source and economic consideration. Counsel experience lists in unrelated captions do not create additional settlements.","conditions":[{"page":6,"quote":"If at of the end of the Class Period the actual Class size is more than 10% larger than the estimated Class size of 188 persons (i.e., 207 or more Class Members) the Gross Settlement Amount shall be increased by the percentage by which the actual Class size exceeds the estimated Class size of 207 persons. The Gross Settlement Amount will not be reduced due to Defendants’ estimate."},{"page":6,"quote":"to the extent that any portions of the Class Members’ settlement proceeds constitute wages, Defendants will be separately responsible for any employer payroll taxes required by law, including the employer FICA, FUTA, and SDI contributions."},{"page":6,"quote":"It is agreed by and among the Class and Defendants that the Action and any claims, damages, or causes of action arising out of the disputes which are the subject of the Complaint, be settled and compromised as between the Class and Defendants, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Settlement and the approval of the Court."},{"page":7,"quote":"If a Class Member intervenes and/or there is an objection, this Settlement shall become effective only when the following additional events have occurred (i) final affirmation of the Final Approval from any appeal or writ, (ii) the expiration of the time for, or the denial of, an appeal or writ from the Final Approval, or (iii) the date of final dismissal of any appeal or writ from the Final Approval or the final dismissal of any proceeding to review the Final Approval, provided that the Final Approval is affirmed and/or not reversed in any part."},{"page":11,"quote":"Defendants will fund the Gross Amount and employer’s share of payroll taxes within 15 calendar days of the Effective Date of the Settlement."},{"page":11,"quote":"The Settlement Administrator shall cause the settlement amounts to be distributed to the Class Members within twenty (20) calendar days of the Effective Date of the Settlement."},{"page":22,"quote":"In the event that this Settlement is not approved by the Court, or if for any reason the Effective Date does not occur, the Settlement shall be deemed null, void and unenforceable"},{"page":22,"quote":"If 10% or more of the Class Members request exclusion or opt out of this Settlement, then Defendants in their sole discretion may terminate, nullify and void this Settlement."},{"page":22,"quote":"To terminate this Settlement under this paragraph, Defendants’ Counsel must give Plaintiffs’ Counsel written notice no later than 15 calendar days after the Response Period has expired."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $475,000 non-reversionary gross is subject to preliminary and final court approval and the defined Effective Date, including additional appeal finality if there is an intervention or objection. 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The period of the PAGA Released Claims shall extend from December 30, 2018 through June 30, 2021 (the “PAGA Period”). B. A Settlement Class Member’s cashing of his or her Settlement Payment check shall be considered consent and an opt-in to the settlement of all related federal wage and hour claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and each Settlement Class Member who cashed and/or endorses by signature his or her Settlement Payment check will waive his or her rights to bring related claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act for the Class Period."},"rationale":"One own-case $1m whole fund, expressly nonreversionary with full installment deposit and entire net payment. The separate $100,000 PAGA allocation is included. Physical2 expressly makes check cashing/endorsement FLSA consent/opt-in, while noncashers retain FLSA rights. 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The source spells the amount inconsistently as 'Ninety-Seven Thousand Five Dollars and Zero Cents' while printing $97,500.00. The replacement retains the printed numeric figure and discloses the word discrepancy rather than adjudicating its correction. The fund resolves PAGA penalties, with class claims expressly dismissed and no separately priced individual claim.","conditions":[{"page":1,"quote":"“Effective Date” means the date by when both of the following have occurred: (a) the Court enters a Judgment on its Order Approving the PAGA Settlement and (b) the Judgment is final. 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Gonzalez/Smith notices and Sage Client 349 affiliate are described in the agreement, but no additional retained source establishes a separate economic fund or additional LWDA alias; none is invented. 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Fees, costs, administration and an enhancement are included; the remainder is PAGA penalties. The $10,000 enhancement is expressly for representative service, risks and his general release. Class claims are to be dismissed without prejudice, and there is no separately priced individual-claim recovery or collective opt-in. PAGA-only classification preserves that representative-release qualification.","conditions":[{"page":3,"quote":"“Effective Date” means the date by when both of the following have occurred: (a) the Court 4 enters a Judgment on its Order Approving the PAGA Settlement and (b) the Judgment is final. The 5 Judgment is final as of the latest of the following occurrences: (a) the day the Court enters Judgment if 6 no objections are filed to this settlement or if all objections are withdrawn prior to the Court ruling on 7 them; or (b) sixty-one (61) days after the date of entry of the settlement approval order if objections are 8 filed and overruled and no appeal is taken from the order approving the settlement; or (c) if a timely 9 appeal is made, ten (10) business days after the final resolution of that appeal if the appeal is rejected, 10 the settlement is upheld, and the settlement approval order is no longer subject to further judicial review."},{"page":8,"quote":"Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement 18 Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator no later than fourteen (14) days after the 19 Effective Date."},{"page":13,"quote":"Defendant represented that there was a total of 20,596 pay periods worked by an estimated 648 8 Aggrieved Employees from February 24, 2021 to May 30, 2023. If the number of pay periods during 9 the PAGA Period is more than 10% greater than this figure (i.e., if there are approximately 22,656 or 10 more pay periods worked by Aggrieved Employees (as evidenced by a pay period with payment for time 11 worked, excluding vacation, sick time, and/or other personal leaves of absences), Defendant has the 12 option to either: (1) agree to increase the Gross Settlement Amount on a proportional basis (i.e., if there 13 was 11% increase in the number of pay periods during the PAGA Period, Defendant would agree to 14 increase the Gross Settlement Amount on a proportionately by 1%); or (2) in the alternative, in the event 15 that this provision is triggered, then Defendant may elect to end the PAGA Period at an earlier date than 16 described above, so as to have an earlier end to the PAGA Period at the Defendant’s discretion in order 17 to limit the covered pay periods to 22,656 (or less) in lieu of paying an increase to the Gross Settlement 18 Amount."},{"page":14,"quote":"If another 2 party appeals the Judgment, the Parties’ obligations to perform under this Agreement will be suspended 3 until such time as the appeal is finally resolved and the Judgment becomes final, except as to matters 4 that do not affect the amount of the Net Settlement Amount."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $450,000 base requires court approval and judgment finality under the stated objection/appeal rules; full funding is due fourteen days after the Effective Date. Above the 20,596-pay-period estimate by more than 10%, Defendant may increase gross proportionally above the buffer or shorten the PAGA period to 22,656 periods or less. Third-party appeals suspend performance except matters not affecting the net. Actual counts, election, approval and payment are not established."},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T14:10:58.763108+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"a4b2a761a36b7943803c4fc7b3861389a1693cd8d629b2fa70de6d769e27009b","economicSettlementId":"settlement-869270-22-b1707607018f","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No baseline observation shares the exact case or original. One exact-case retained original identifies Russell Strickland, Placer S-CV-0048084 and LWDA-CM-869270-22. Eighty outside AWI references are counsel experience-list mentions of Lanzarin v. AWI, Solano FCS041809, not Strickland amendments or approvals. 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If periods exceed the 12,752 base by more than 10% (the source says 'more than 14,028'), gross increases pro rata per additional period. Third-party appeals suspend performance except matters not affecting the net. A signed August 26, 2026 judgment approves the base; actual period count, any escalation and payment are not established."},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T14:10:58.763108+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"b14bf1a427764ac9604b4775a9a891e2323f3b226ade0d772b754bbb31c067b0","economicSettlementId":"settlement-1010030-24-fac47cccaaeb","duplicateResolution":{"status":"supersedes","comparedObservationIds":["LWDA-CM-1010030-24"],"rationale":"Explicit correction of the baseline observation. Three exact-case originals are the complaint, executed agreement and later signed/filed approval judgment for Jenkins, LA 24STCV03385. The later order's PROPOSED caption is struck and judicial signature/date are visible; its native text alone omits them. Agreement and order both state $247,500. No separate fund for the two defendants or additional exact-case/source overlap. 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The $20,000 PAGA component is part of gross, not another settlement. Exhibit 3 separately settles Paul Fonseca’s individual retaliation claim for $25,000; that payment is not added to this class gross or separately counted as a representative settlement.","conditions":[{"page":13,"quote":"By no later than fifteen (15) business days after the Effective Date, Defendants shall provide to the Settlement Administrator the full Gross Settlement Amount"},{"page":13,"quote":"within fourteen (14) calendar days after Defendants provide the Settlement Administrator with the full Gross Settlement Amount"},{"page":18,"quote":"more than 3,303 Class Members"},{"page":18,"quote":"Defendants shall increase the Gross Settlement Amount on a pro-rata basis"},{"page":18,"quote":"Defendants may also void the settlement within fourteen (14) calendar days of the expiration of the exclusion period if ten percent (10%) or more of the Class opts out of the Settlement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $650,000 nonreversionary class-and-PAGA gross is due within 15 business days after the Effective Date, with employer payroll taxes additional; class checks follow within 14 calendar days after funding. 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The class-dismissal recital and penalty-only employee distributions support PAGA-only treatment. Plaintiff also gives a broad personal release of pleaded wage and related claims effective upon full funding; this is disclosed, but neither a separate individual recovery nor a wage allocation is stated. A personal release without that separate economic promise does not by itself establish a mixed monetary fund. No separate amount is imputed to the release.","conditions":[{"page":6,"quote":"Funding of Gross Settlement Amount. The Gross Settlement Amount shall be paid by Defendants to the Settlement Administrator in nine (9) installments of $10,000 over the course of nine (9) months as follows: The First Installment of $10,000.00 shall be paid within thirty (30) days of the Approval Order (“First Installment”). The Second Installment payment of $10,000.00 shall be made by Defendants to the settlement administrator sixty (60) days of the Approval Order (“Second Installment”). The Third Installment payment of $10,000.00 shall be made by Defendants to the settlement administrator ninety (90) days of the Approval Order (“Third Installment”). The Fourth Installment payment of $10,000.00 shall be made by Defendants to the settlement administrator one hundred and twenty (120) days of the Approval Order (“Fourth Installment”). The Fifth Installment payment of $10,000.00 shall be made by Defendants to the settlement administrator one hundred and fifty (150) days of the Approval Order (“Fifth Installment”). The Sixth Installment payment of $10,000.00 shall be made by Defendants to the settlement administrator one hundred and two hundred and ten (210) days of the Approval Order (“Sixth Installment”). The Seventh Installment payment of $10,000.00 shall be made by Defendants to the settlement administrator two hundred and forty (240) days of the Approval Order (“Seventh Installment”). The Eighth Installment payment of $10,000.00 shall be made by Defendants to the settlement administrator two hundred and seventy (270) days of the Approval Order (“Eighth Installment”). The Ninth Installment payment of $10,000.00 shall be made by Defendants to the settlement administrator here hundred (300) days of the Approval Order (“Ninth Installment”), after which, the settlement administrator shall make Individual PAGA Payments to the PAGA Members, the LWDA PAGA Payment, and the Administration Expenses Payment."},{"page":6,"quote":"Within 14 days after A.S.I. funds the Gross Settlement Amount, the Administrator will mail checks for all Individual PAGA Payments, the LWDA PAGA Payment, the Administration Expenses Payment, and the PAGA Counsel Litigation Expenses Payment."},{"page":9,"quote":"If another party appeals the Judgment, the Parties’ obligations to perform under this Agreement will be suspended until such time as the appeal is finally resolved and the Judgment becomes final, except as to matters that do not affect the Net Settlement Amount."}],"conditionsSummary":"Court approval triggers nine $10,000 installments. The source calls this nine months but lists deadlines of 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 210, 240, 270 and 300 days after approval, with wording errors in the sixth and ninth installments; those inconsistencies are not corrected here. Checks follow within fourteen days after full funding. Third-party appeals suspend performance except matters not affecting the net. Approval, compliance with the schedule and payment are not established."},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T14:45:50.408870+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"a53e352cd848a08ec34a143b89a97770a44255b6e6214840323e6b537581d28f","economicSettlementId":"settlement-1048026-24-ef45172cd90c","duplicateResolution":{"status":"supersedes","comparedObservationIds":["LWDA-CM-1048026-24"],"rationale":"Explicit correction of the baseline observation. Two exact-case originals identify Pablo Jaramillo, Orange 30-2024-01447285-CU-OE-CXC: a 21-page complaint and the 12-page executed agreement. 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(PAGA) that were asserted in any and/or all of the complaints in the Action and/or any of Plaintiff’s letter to the LWDA (including any subsequently amended complaints or letters, if any); and/or any and all claims and remedies, known or unknown, that could have been asserted based on the factual allegations in any and/or all of the complaints in the Action and/or any of Plaintiff’s letters to the LWDA (including any subsequently amended complaints or letters, if any), including all sections of the California Labor Code listed in paragraph 2.1, above. The release shall run through the PAGA Period."},"rationale":"The operative action and employee/state releases concern PAGA civil penalties. After court-approved fees, costs, administration, taxes and a representative service award, the balance pays PAGA penalties 75% to LWDA and 25% to employees. 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Defendants shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date. 4.4. Payments from the Gross Settlement Amount. Within 14 days after Defendants fund the Gross Settlement Amount, the Administrator will process all employment taxes and mail checks for all Individual PAGA Payments, Plaintiff’s representative service award, the LWDA PAGA Payment, the Administration Expenses Payment, and the PAGA Counsel Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses Payments."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $365,000 stated gross is subject to court approval and Paragraph 8: if pay periods exceed 12,050, Defendants may increase by 1% for each 1% above the 15% threshold or cut the PAGA period at 12,050 pay periods. 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PAGA Penalties Fund: The Parties agree that Defendant, through the Settlement Administrator, will pay the LWDA and Aggrieved Employees in full satisfaction of all claims for PAGA civil penalties under the California Labor Code in an amount equal to the remainder of the Maximum Settlement Amount following deduction of any Court-approved Attorneys’ Fees, Litigation Costs, Plaintiff’s Individual Payment, and Settlement Administration Costs (“PAGA Penalties Fund”). Pursuant to PAGA, 75% of the PAGA Penalties Fund will be paid to the LWDA, and the remaining 25% will be paid to all Aggrieved Employees in proportion to the number of pay periods employed in non-exempt vineyard positions during the Settlement Period."},"rationale":"The actual monetary allocation is a PAGA fund after fees, costs, administration and the expressly described $15,000 representative payment. Section 7 prices both Plaintiff’s effort/work on behalf of aggrieved employees and the State and a general release; it states no separate wage or personal-damages amount. The PAGA-only complaint and signed order recognizing that service support PAGA-only scope with this release disclosed. Preserve the opening and entire-agreement references to individual claims and the general release; do not recast the $15,000 as a separately priced wage settlement.","conditions":[{"page":1,"quote":"3. 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The complaint demand, fees, personal payment and PAGA residue are not additional gross observations."}},{"reviewId":"batch-0047-783735-20-gross-v1","action":"add","recordId":"expanded-783735-20","recordSha256":"4ab9ccc949d60dd71236beb56907317f5e78ab11d955384b44dc7a3695bd056f","sourceSha256":"b00bcae09d6972688a72d5e62ae1f682166ede36a23b43ae12e53ec215f1fcbf","sourcePage":4,"sourceBytes":1974577,"sourceTextBasis":"ocr-visual","sourcePageTextSha256":"d5aaf0f4462a52485c6e07cd98e21c5932b45ce597b38f2b72fafdb73deded80","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"unclassified","scopeEvidence":{"page":6,"quote":"Nineteen Thousand One Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars and No Cents ($19,175.00) (“Individual Settlement Amount”) to Plaintiff Julian Cortez from the Settlement Fund as follows:"},"rationale":"Although the instrument’s recital separates non-PAGA claims into a concurrent individual agreement, its express $60,000 gross includes $19,175 as the individual settlement and $19,175 for PAGA, plus fees/costs and administration. The individual component expressly pays $5,000 for labor-code/wage claims and $14,175 for participation, emotional distress and general release. This is a mixed single economic gross, not a PAGA-only $60,000 observation.","conditions":[{"page":4,"quote":"Because the PAGA Settlement requires approval by the Court, the Parties enter into this PAGA Agreement on a conditional basis. This PAGA Agreement is expressly contingent upon the Court’s approval of the PAGA Settlement pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in this PAGA Agreement. If Court approval is not granted of this PAGA Agreement after second hearing (as referenced below), then this PAGA Agreement and the Individual Settlement Agreement shall be deemed null and void, shall be of no force or effect whatsoever, and shall not be referred to or used for any purpose whatsoever."},{"page":4,"quote":"Within six months (6) after Notice of the Approval, Defendant shall pay Forty Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($40,000.00) (“The First Installment Payment”) and six months thereafter, Defendant shall pay the balance of Twenty Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($20,000.00) (“The Last Installment Payment”), to be allocated by PSA as follows:"},{"page":7,"quote":"In the event the Court fails, on its first hearing, to approve this PAGA Agreement because of the amount of this PAGA Settlement is not adequate, then the Parties shall cooperate in good faith to reallocate the total settlement proceeds, as between the Individual Settlement Agreement and this PAGA Agreement, in order to try to achieve Court approval of the PAGA Agreement upon second court hearing."}],"conditionsSummary":"The agreement is conditional on court approval, with both the PAGA and individual agreements void if approval is not obtained after the second hearing; the parties first attempt reallocation between those components. The $60,000 is payable in a $40,000 installment within six months after notice of approval and $20,000 six months later. The retained signed order dated February 25, 2021 approves the settlement and repeats those installments; payment is not established."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T14:55:03.865172+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"958540f37b42a7915d06e43bb81d309c70f64a8d2c6fa5db73037df9c5a36094","economicSettlementId":"settlement-783735-20-b00bcae09d69","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No baseline observation shares the exact case or original. Agreement and signed February 25, 2021 order match case 20STCV24030, parties and $60,000 total. Exact court-ID, plaintiff and employer FTS queries returned no outside originals. No baseline/current observation shares the case/source. 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Class-member releases and a separate $35,000 PAGA allocation coexist; the latter releases the State and PAGA members regardless of class opt-out. One settlement links both retained LWDA cases, with no second observation for the counterpart original.","conditions":[{"page":18,"quote":"Defendant represents that there is a total of 73,727 workweeks during the Class Period based on its payroll records. Should the total number of workweeks increase from this amount (73,727) by more than two and one half precent (2.5%), i.e., 75,570, Defendant shall increase the Net Settlement Amount proportionately over the 2.5% threshold."},{"page":23,"quote":"Defendant has the right to withdraw from the Settlement any time prior to Final Approval in the event that: (a) the Court does not finally approve the Settlement under the terms provided in this Settlement Agreement; (b) 10% or more of all Settlement Class Members opt out of the Settlement; or (c) the Court does not certify a Settlement Class or does not certify a class releasing the claims set forth herein."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $3,350,000 stated gross is subject to final approval; employer payroll taxes are additional. Paragraph 61 increases the net settlement proportionately if workweeks exceed the stated 75,570 threshold above the 73,727 estimate. Defendant may withdraw before final approval if 10% or more opt out, approval fails, or the specified settlement class is not certified. Funding is due within seven calendar days after the approval order becomes final; no entered approval order or payment proof is in the reviewed unit."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T14:55:03.865172+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"d9da1336e6fa00284bccd512fe72398e070af8849d395704335d3225500eb69d","economicSettlementId":"settlement-quemetco-ramirez-storey-bc652619","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No baseline observation shares the exact case or original. Primary and distinct retained counterpart 781890329741… are one joint settlement, with explicit shared parties, consolidated case BC652619, same gross, period and terms. The Storey complaint separately supplies original case BC680792, and the agreement recites its consolidation with Ramirez. No current/baseline record shares either linked LWDA case or those source hashes. Outside Quemetco-name hit a441183157de… is Alek Torres’s April 3, 2026 notice concerning the preceding year, not this fund. 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Ramirez and Jerry L. Storey (“Plaintiffs”), 4 individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, and Quemetco, Inc. (“Defendant”) 5 (collectively, Defendant and Plaintiffs will be referred to as the “Parties”), and is subject to the 6 terms and conditions below, and to the Court’s approval. If for any reason the Settlement 7 Agreement is not approved, it will be of no force or effect, and the Parties will be returned to 8 their respective positions immediately prior to and as if they had never executed this Settlement 9 Agreement as more fully set forth below. This Settlement Agreement supersedes any and all 10 prior writings with respect to settlement and sets forth the Parties’ agreement to resolve all 11 claims as described below. 12 DEFINITIONS 13 The following definitions are applicable to this Settlement Agreement. Definitions 14 contained elsewhere in this Settlement Agreement will also be effective: 15 1. “Action” means the Consolidated Complaint entitled Salvador C. Ramirez and 16 Jerry L. Storey v. Quemetco, Inc., et al., Los Angeles County Superior Court Case No. 17 BC652619, which was filed on January 31, 2018.","sourcePageTextSha256":"825ad4becc91998dc6a8d79aaac5f036b1928a1404be78dc9a3bc67228f6ebc9","relationshipRationale":"The related archive case retains the same joint stipulation naming Salvador C. Ramirez and Jerry L. Storey, one consolidated court action BC652619, and the same $3,350,000 gross/terms. Its physical page 8 recites consolidation of the two actions; its pages 28–30 preserve signed counterparts. The related original complaint identifies Storey and BC680792. These are direct shared-settlement links, not an employer-name inference."}]},{"reviewId":"batch-0051-1026371-24-gross-v1","action":"add","recordId":"expanded-1026371-24","recordSha256":"5dee9d0fba04a4eba3ec377aade77ae33d227292b16aa8023ecd0dcf7414ff86","sourceSha256":"99ac7f74d23302a84e93a1731259ee0f3a31bd115b9e51f7bacd90d505a6696b","sourcePage":4,"sourceBytes":683541,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"59d1ac7129f08206a12d37cfe9ffa3590fe1741efe5909abc0f17a300eae60bf","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"unclassified","scopeEvidence":{"page":7,"quote":"Plaintiff’s PAGA Release. Plaintiff and his respective former and present spouses, representatives, agents, attorneys (including PAGA Counsel), heirs, administrators, successors, and assigns generally, release and discharge Released Parties from all claims, transactions, or occurrences that occurred during and in any way related to his employment with Defendant, and throughout the PAGA Period, including, but not limited to, all claims that were, or reasonably could have been, alleged, based on the facts contained in the Operative Complaint in the Action and the PAGA Notice, which includes the California Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA) claims based on Defendant’s alleged failure to pay minimum and overtime wages, failure to provide meal periods, failure to authorize and permit rest periods, failure to maintain accurate records for hours worked and meal periods, failure to timely pay wages, failure to provide accurate wage statements, failure to indemnity for necessary business expenses, and all other claims and allegations made or which could have reasonably been made in the Action based on the facts and allegations pled in the Operative Complaint and PAGA Notice (“Plaintiff’s PAGA Release”)."},"rationale":"The executed agreement fixes and requires distribution of the entire nonreversionary gross, with an expressly elected period-shortening alternative. The monetary provisions allocate the remainder to PAGA penalties after fees, costs and administration. Scope is kept unclassified because the actual plaintiff release reaches all employment/operative-complaint claims, the pleaded action includes individual and class wage claims, and no separately priced individual consideration or service award resolves that breadth. This is not a class-wide release: other employees release only PAGA penalties. The attached draft notice expressly states a civil-penalties-only intent, so that contrary characterization is retained rather than silently resolved.","conditions":[{"page":5,"quote":"Aggrieved Employee Pay Periods & Escalator Provision. Based on a review of its records to date, Defendant estimates there are approximately 635 Aggrieved Employees who worked a total of approximately 26,161 pay periods (“PAGA Pay Periods”). If the number of pay periods worked by Aggrieved Employees during the PAGA Release Period would exceed that estimate by more than 10% (i.e. exceed 28,777 employee pay periods) then, the Total Settlement Amount will increase proportionate to the pay period increase (i.e., if number of employee pay periods exceeds 28,777 by 1%, the Total Settlement Amount will increase by 1%). At its option, Defendant can avoid increasing the Gross Settlement Amount by electing to end the PAGA Period on the date by which the number of PAGA Pay Periods reaches 28,777. Under the latter option, which is hereby exercised, no additional payment is necessary, and the PAGA Period shall end on August 23, 2025."},{"page":1,"quote":"“Effective Date” means the date when the Court signs the approval order and judgment."},{"page":6,"quote":"Funding of Gross Settlement Amount. Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator no later than twenty-one (21) calendar days after the Effective Date."},{"page":4,"quote":"Prior to disbursing the Gross Settlement Amount, the Administrator will provide a disbursement breakdown to PAGA Counsel and Defense Counsel and will not disburse any funds until the breakdown is approved by both counsel. Any disputes regarding disbursement will be resolved by the Court."},{"page":9,"quote":"If another party appeals the Judgment, the Parties’ obligations to perform under this Agreement will be suspended until such time as the appeal is finally resolved and the Judgment becomes final."}],"conditionsSummary":"The agreement expressly exercises its option to end the PAGA period on August 23, 2025 without an additional payment, rather than increasing the $490,000 gross for pay periods above the stated 28,777 threshold. Full funding is due within 21 calendar days after the court signs the approval order and judgment; disbursements require both counsel’s approval. Another party’s appeal suspends performance until resolution and finality."},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T15:07:26.967761+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"b5686d80b3319aa57ba5597b603bb1dddbff60a1bb142c6204133e9ea7834ec2","economicSettlementId":"settlement-1026371-24-99ac7f74d233","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No baseline observation shares the exact case or original. Exact archive closure contains the executed agreement and July 9, 2024 first amended class/PAGA complaint for Mercado, case 24 STCV 11932. No baseline or accepted record shares this exact case or original. The only outside party-name hit is an unrelated Empire Today order with incidental employee names. No common employer name is used to infer an additional case or fund."}},{"reviewId":"batch-0051-1084245-25-gross-v1","action":"replace","recordId":"LWDA-CM-1084245-25","recordSha256":"a5119f234f4ee01205b2e0665392e4fe1e2a484e12b342f962b95ba2863ed7c5","sourceSha256":"967d59873e604bf11a0dad17429fdec5b37a400542b5c3cec99d7ecda19637b6","sourcePage":5,"sourceBytes":714461,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"7735b1ee1f77a0300a019f8773edd1fb9308d31b1439d9a38379c8be82111820","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"class-and-paga","scopeEvidence":{"page":2,"quote":"“Gross Settlement Amount” means $800,000.00 which is the total amount Junction Ventures agrees to pay under the Settlement. The Gross Settlement Amount will be used to pay Individual Class Payments, Individual PAGA Payments, the LWDA PAGA Payment, Class Counsel Fees Payment, Class Counsel Litigation Expenses Payment, Class Representative Service Payment, and Administration Expenses Payment."},"rationale":"The source requires distribution of the full gross without claims and no reversion; its explicit escalation and rescission conditions are disclosed. Actual releases and payments cover state-law class wage claims and representative PAGA penalties. Although the title includes Collective, the complete 22-page retained agreement has no FLSA claim, opt-in or collective release mechanism; the supported cohort is class-and-paga. This replaces the same 800000 baseline observation to add complete source, funding and scope context rather than creating another economic settlement.","conditions":[{"page":8,"quote":"Escalator Clause. Defendants estimate the number of work weeks during the Class Period to be 25,209. If the actual number of Workweeks encompassed within the Class Period exceeds 25,209 by more than 10%, then the Gross Settlement Amount will increase proportionately by the percentage increase over 10%."},{"page":7,"quote":"Funding of Gross Settlement Amount. Junction Ventures shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount, and also fund the amounts necessary to fully pay Defendants’ share of payroll taxes, by transmitting the funds to the Administrator in two lump sums. Fifty percent (50%) of the Gross Settlement Amount will be funded within thirty (30) days of final approval of the class settlement. The remaining fifty percent (50%) shall be funded within six (6) months of final approval of the class settlement."},{"page":14,"quote":"DEFENDANTS’ RIGHT TO WITHDRAW. If the number of valid Requests for Exclusion identified in the Exclusion List exceeds 5% (five percent) of the total of all Class Members, Defendants may, but are not obligated, elect to withdraw from the Settlement. The Parties agree that, if Defendants withdraws, the Settlement shall be void ab initio and have no force or effect whatsoever, and neither Party will have any further obligation to perform under this Agreement; provided, however, Defendants will remain responsible for paying all Settlement Administration Expenses incurred to that point. Defendants must notify Class Counsel and the Court of their election to withdraw not later than 7 days after the Administrator sends the final Exclusion List to Defense Counsel; late elections will have no effect."},{"page":15,"quote":"If an objector appeals the Judgment, the Parties’ obligations to perform under this Agreement will be suspended until such time as the appeal is finally resolved and the Judgment becomes final, except as to matters that do not affect the Net Settlement Amount."},{"page":15,"quote":"Appellate Court Orders to Vacate, Reverse, or Materially Modify Judgment. If the appellate court vacates, reverses or modifies the Judgment in a manner that requires a material modification of this Agreement (including, but not limited to, the scope of release to be granted by Class Members), this Agreement shall be null and void. The Parties shall nevertheless expeditiously work together in good faith to address the appellate court’s concerns and to obtain Final Approval and entry of Judgment, sharing, on a 50-50 basis, any additional administration expenses reasonably incurred after remittitur. An appellate decision to vacate, reverse, or modify the Court’s award of the Class Representative Service Payment or any payments to Class Counsel shall not constitute a material modification of the Judgment within the meaning of this paragraph, as long as the Gross Settlement Amount remains unchanged."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $800,000 base increases proportionately by the percentage above a 10% buffer over 25,209 workweeks. Junction Ventures must fund 50% within 30 days of final approval and the remaining 50% within six months of final approval, plus employer payroll taxes separately. More than 5% valid exclusions permits withdrawal within seven days after the final exclusion list. An objector appeal suspends performance except matters not affecting the net; an appellate change requiring material modification voids the agreement, with the stated award-reduction exception."},"reviewedBy":"source_reconciliation","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T15:07:26.967761+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"7d0f02d5355d329253279ae83ddf05208f32f0018a8f8d8e21d7ad5739fcba8e","economicSettlementId":"settlement-1084245-25-967d59873e60","duplicateResolution":{"status":"supersedes","comparedObservationIds":["LWDA-CM-1084245-25"],"rationale":"Explicit correction of the baseline observation. Exact archive closure is the 22-page agreement in Jose L. Ramirez v.Junction Ventures LLC/Julio Cesar Torres, 25 STCV 13875. The sole baseline overlap is the same 800000 source/case; replace it, keep itsID and do not count the two defendants separately. Exact party/court FTS found no outside operative instrument or second associated fund."},"prior":{"id":"LWDA-CM-1084245-25","recordSha256":"46d0c88c6dbfaa176a0fc6ceca7d133c0d8aa794f083169ef8cbae9546218810"}},{"reviewId":"batch-0051-807691-20-gross-v1","action":"add","recordId":"expanded-807691-20","recordSha256":"15b24cf14ac75712c66c593141ea985364cf5860df4ae45964a0eb621ae072f9","sourceSha256":"2cc112da35ec388dd1ea5a2cdff2fd710de46333098d3197f7540e98cf14d335","sourcePage":3,"sourceBytes":452419,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"7531223f87e3f5005a4df80cdb3716b9250bce66e4af0dc9540f025da8ac85f1","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"paga-only","scopeEvidence":{"page":3,"quote":"“Settled Claims” means any and all claims for PAGA civil penalties under the California 11 Labor Code, Wage Orders, regulations, and/or other provisions of law that were alleged to have been 12 violated in the Action or that reasonably could have been alleged to have been violated in the Action 13 based on the facts alleged in the Complaint Plaintiff filed in the Action. This includes all claims for 14 PAGA civil penalties arising from the alleged violation of one or more of the following Labor Code 15 provisions as to Aggrieved Employees during the Settlement Period: California Labor Code sections 16 201, 202, 203, 204, 210, 222.5, 226, 226.3, 226.7, 227.3, 256, 510, 512, 516, 551, 552, 558, 1174, 17 1174.5, 1182.12, 1194, 1197, 1198, and 2802."},"rationale":"The agreement expressly requires the full nonreverting 1.25 million base, not merely an uptake ceiling, while preserving the period/count adjustment. Settled claims are representativePAGA penalties; other employees do not release individual wage claims. The separately described 10000 service award expressly compensates representative service and the plaintiff’s general release, so that disclosed award does not convert the remaining PAGA fund into an unidentified individual/class settlement. The actual signed approval order retains this settlement, specifies awards, and does not establish the final adjustment election or payment.","conditions":[{"page":2,"quote":"“Aggrieved Employees” means all persons who were employed by Defendants in California as non-exempt, hourly-paid employees at any time from September 25, 2019 through November 30, 2022; provided that if the total number of Pay Periods worked by the referenced group during that time period exceeds Forty-Two Thousand Four Hundred Twenty (42,420) Pay Periods, Defendants shall have the option of: (a) adjusting the end-date of the settlement period so that no more than 42,420 Pay Periods are being settled and released; or (b) increasing the amount of the Gross Settlement Amount by Nineteen Dollars and Six Cents ($19.06) for each Pay Period in excess of 42,420 included in the Settlement Period."},{"page":6,"quote":"Funding of the Settlement. Within thirty (30) calendar days after entry of the Order and 8 Judgment, Defendant will deposit the Gross Settlement Amount into the QSF to be established by the 9 Settlement Administrator. Within fourteen (14) calendar days of the date on which the Judgment is final 10 and can no longer be appealed, the Settlement Administrator will issue payments to: (a) Aggrieved 11 Employees; (b) the Labor and Workforce Development Agency; (c) Plaintiff; (d) Plaintiff’s Counsel; 12 and (e) itself. The Settlement Administrator, and not Defendants, will issue the appropriate tax forms for 13 all payments issued under this Settlement."},{"page":7,"quote":"Nullification of Settlement Agreement. In the event that: (a) the Court does not approve 27 the Settlement as provided herein; or (b) the Settlement does not become final for any other reason, then 28 this Settlement Agreement, and any documents generated to bring it into effect, will be null and void,"},{"page":9,"quote":"Waiver of Certain Appeals. The Parties agree to waive appeals; except, however, that 7 Plaintiff may appeal any reduction to the Attorneys’ Fees and Costs below the amount they request from 8 the Court, and either party may appeal any court order that materially alters the Settlement’s terms."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $1.25 million base is subject to an option if the group exceeds 42,420 pay periods: shorten the settlement period or add $19.06 for each excess period. Funding is due within 30 calendar days after entry of the order and judgment; distributions are due within 14 calendar days after the judgment is final and no longer appealable. Failure of approval or finality nullifies the agreement. 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Subject to any alternative described below, the satisfaction of the requirements of paragraphs 10.2.1 and 10.2.2 shall constitute a condition precedent to the effectuation of this Settlement and preclude the entry of any Order and Judgment that does not incorporate dismissal provisions consistent paragraph 10.2.1 and 10.2.2. 10.2.4.1. The condition precedent of paragraph 10.2.4 shall be deemed satisfied if an alternative procedure agreeable to the court is agreed to by the Parties and whereby the class claims in the Action and Plaintiff’s individual claims will be dismissed without prejudice (with court approval) and with prejudice, respectively, in conjunction with the court’s approval of this Settlement in all other respects."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $170,000 base gross is subject to court approval, entry of the order and judgment, LWDA submission, and the individual/class dismissal conditions or their agreed court-approved alternative. 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The following payments will be made from the Net Settlement Amount in the amounts approved by the Court: the Individual PAGA Payments and the LWDA Payment."},"rationale":"The gross expressly funds the PAGA net and related fees, expenses, administration and service payment. The individual release has a separate confidential agreement expressly excluded from this PAGA release, so this scalar is PAGA-only; the estimated allocation discrepancy does not alter the fixed gross.","conditions":[{"page":1,"quote":"1.6. “Effective Date” means the date on which the Court enters Judgment on its order granting approval of the PAGA settlement."},{"page":5,"quote":"4.2. Funding of Gross Settlement Amount. Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator no later than 120 days after the Effective Date."},{"page":9,"quote":"8. ESCALATION CLAUSE. Based on review of Defendant’s records, the Parties’ PAGA Pay Period Estimate is 5,907 total pay periods worked by the Aggrieved Employees as of December 1, 2025. In the event the PAGA Pay Period Estimate is incorrect by more than 10% of the total released PAGA Pay Periods set forth in this Agreement, Defendant may elect to a) increase the Gross Settlement Amount proportionally to the same percentage by purchasing the additional pay periods pro rata (i.e., if the released pay periods are 11% greater than 5,907, the Gross Settlement Amount will be increased by 1%), or b) cut off the release period as of the date the 10% cushion is exhausted. Defendant shall notify Plaintiff’s Counsel of its election prior to the filing of Plaintiffs’ motion for settlement approval."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $155,000 base gross requires court approval and entry of judgment. Full funding is due within 120 days after that Effective Date, with distribution within 14 days after funding. The 5,907-pay-period estimate has a greater-than-10% adjustment: defendant may proportionally increase the gross for the excess beyond the cushion (the stated example is 11% more pay periods producing a 1% gross increase) or cut off the release period when the 10% cushion is exhausted. The election must precede the approval motion. No realized increase, approval or payment is inferred."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T15:59:26.859995+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"804a7e17c908891c1d690975e192c7b4df3416a1f2a1f75dff54c6eaf5c6ae80","economicSettlementId":"settlement-1020039-24-7c26e54dccdd","duplicateResolution":{"status":"supersedes","comparedObservationIds":["LWDA-CM-1020039-24"],"rationale":"Explicit correction of the baseline observation. Explicit same-case/same-original replacement of the $155,000 baseline record, with stronger source/condition/scope evidence and no additional fund. Exact Riahi and own court identifiers yielded no outside counterpart. 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The collective component describes this express opt-in mechanism; it does not assert an entered certification order. The service award covers the representative general release and employer payroll taxes remain outside the gross.","conditions":[{"page":5,"quote":"1.13 “Effective Date” means the latest of the following dates: “(i) the expiration of the date for any timely appeal from the judgment granting final approval of this Settlement without any timely appeal having been filed, or (ii) if a timely appeal is filed, the date of the final resolution of that appeal (including any requests for rehearing and/or petitions for certiorari), resulting in final approval of the Settlement."},{"page":10,"quote":"2.7 Maximum Amount Payable by Defendants. Under the terms of this Settlement, the maximum amount payable by Defendants shall not exceed the Maximum Settlement Amount of One Hundred Sixty-One Thousand Dollars. ($161,000), plus the applicable payroll taxes as calculated by the Settlement Administrator. Nina’s will pay the payroll taxes for all employees, without waiver of its right to seek contribution and/or reimbursement from Recana). No further contributions will be made by Nina’s. One hundred percent of the Maximum Amount payable will be paid out."},{"page":17,"quote":"3.10 Funding and Allocation of Settlement. Each Defendant has separate obligations to fund. Within 5 business days after the Effective Date the Settlement, Nina's shall provide the Administrator with One Hundred Fifty One Thousand Dollars ($151,000) plus funds to cover employer share of payroll taxes for the Wage Portion of the Settlement for all Settlement Class Members who do not opt out of participation in the Settlement, and Recana will provide the Administrator with Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000). The Settlement Administrator shall deposit the funds in the Settlement Fund Account."},{"page":22,"quote":"3.20 Nullification of Settlement Agreement. In the event: (i) the Court does not enter the Preliminary Approval Order as specified herein; (ii) the Court does not grant final approval of the Settlement as provided herein; (iii) the Court does not enter a Final Judgment as provided herein; or (iv) the Settlement does not become final for any other reason, this Settlement Agreement shall be null and void and any order or judgment entered by the Court in furtherance of this Settlement shall be treated as void from the beginning. In such a case, the Parties and any amounts to be awarded under this Settlement shall be returned to their respective statuses as of the date and time immediately prior to the execution of this Agreement, and the Parties shall proceed in all respects as if this Agreement had not been executed. In the event an appeal is filed from the Court’s final judgment, or any other appellate review is sought, administration of the Settlement shall be stayed pending final resolution of the appeal or other appellate review, but any fees incurred by the Settlement Administrator prior to it being notified of the filing of an appeal from the Court’s final judgment, or any other appellate review, shall be paid to the Settlement Administrator within thirty days of said notification."},{"page":11,"quote":"By signing this check I hereby opt into the Action and Settlement in RANGEL, PLAINTIFF v. NINA'S MEXICAN FOODS, RECANA SOLUTIONS, LLC AND RECANA LLC, DEFENDANTS, Los Angeles Superior Court Case Nos. BC 587941 and BC 584483 and release Defendants and other \"Released Parties\" as defined in the 8 Settlement from all claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act that could have been 9 10 alleged on the basis of the actual facts alleged in the Complaints. This Release is in 11 addition to the other Released Claims released by operation of the Settlement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $161,000 maximum settlement is plus applicable payroll taxes, with Nina’s separately responsible for the employer payroll share. Within five business days after the appeal-final Effective Date, Nina’s must provide $151,000 plus the employer tax funds, and Recana must provide $10,000. These are components of one gross. Failure of preliminary approval, final approval, final judgment or finality voids the settlement; an appeal stays administration. 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Exact court and Martha Rangel searches found no outside source."}},{"reviewId":"batch-0053-220998-17-gross-v1","action":"add","recordId":"expanded-220998-17","recordSha256":"355049e4888bd9b01df188741503f07ae241c5f7e9074b85bfdde2b7e408a588","sourceSha256":"4554c7da151986d5e01ba7263e0fa64d023131afb1c567b0eb8e906debdf1f01","sourcePage":2,"sourceBytes":380841,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"4f113c68e430d9a7cd4293b4f1235bbb6e9303f5fe1a93be56fa852e73f42860","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"unclassified","scopeEvidence":{"page":3,"quote":"The GSA encompasses claims asserted in Plaintiff’s operative complaint in the Action, covering the time period from March 14, 2016 through the date of preliminary approval; the individual claims Plaintiff has against Defendants; and attorneys’ fees and costs."},"rationale":"Unlike a general release tied only to a defined service award, the operative gross clause expressly encompasses individual claims, and the recitals expressly include private wage claims. State penalties and employee payments also form part of the same $30,000. The later court characterization as PAGA-only does not erase those explicit terms; mixed/unclassified records the conflict without inventing a personal allocation.","conditions":[{"page":2,"quote":"1. Willem DeBoer will pay $30,000 within 20 days after PAGA approval is received from the Court, for deposit in a Qualified Settlement Fund held by the Settlement Administrator, to be distributed by the agreed upon Settlement Administrator, upon the presentation of a valid court order approving the settlement. Upon presentation of a final order denying PAGA approval, the Administrator shall immediately release the funds back to DeBoer."},{"page":3,"quote":"If the Agreement is not approved by the Court, the Agreement will be deemed void and the Parties agree to cooperate to return the case to the procedural stance in place as of February 11, 2020, with new dates set, such that Defendant DeBoer shall retain his right to file a Motion for Summary Judgment or Summary Adjudication."},{"page":7,"quote":"4. The Parties agree that this Agreement does not impact the claims that Plaintiff or the State of California has against any other party in the above referenced matter, including Defendants Dark Horse Express, Inc., William Petty, or any successors to these parties."},{"page":7,"quote":"5. If a class is certified in the related matter of Jimenez-Sanchez v. 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Within two hundred and forty (240) calendar days after the First Installment, Defendants will deposit the remaining half of the Gross Settlement Amount into the QSF (“Second Installment”)."},{"page":12,"quote":"In the event that: (i) the Court does not approve the Settlement as provided herein; or (ii) the Settlement does not become final for any other reason, then this Settlement Agreement, and any documents generated to bring it into effect, will be null and void, and the Parties will be returned to their original respective positions."},{"page":7,"quote":"The parties stipulate to the filing of an amended Complaint that adds all of the PAGA claims alleged by Plaintiff Martin in the related action. Martin will file a dismissal of the Martin Action within 10 days of the Approval of this Settlement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $575,000 base gross is subject to approval, finality and the agreement’s pay-period adjustment. 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The previously executed Individual Settlement Agreement is separately identified on page 11; it is not retained or assigned a price by this instrument. The stray individual-claims language in page 8’s limit is disclosed, without substituting it for the express PAGA gross/scope definitions. This enriches the existing same-$35,000 observation rather than adding a second fund.","conditions":[{"page":2,"quote":"“Effective Date” means the date by which all of the following have occurred: 1. The Court has approved the Settlement; 2. The Court has entered the Final Order; and, 3. If the State of California, acting through the LWDA or any other administrative agency or official, or any third party objects or intervenes, but no appeal is filed, the applicable time for appeal; or, in the event any appeal is filed, the date the appeal is disposed in the Parties’ favor and is no longer subject to review by any court, whether by appeal, petitions for rehearing or re-argument, petitions for review, or otherwise. Should any appeal not result in approval of the Parties’ Settlement as described herein, the Settlement shall be void and of no further force or effect."},{"page":4,"quote":"Accordingly, the Parties enter into this Agreement on a conditional basis. This Agreement is expressly contingent upon the Court’s approval of this Settlement and the terms and material conditions of this Agreement (including, but not limited to, issuance of the Final Order in a form agreed to by the Parties and entry of the Final Order in accordance therewith). If Court approval is not given and the Final Order is not entered, and thereafter an appeal is unsuccessful, under the specific terms requested, this entire Agreement shall automatically be deemed null, void, and shall be of no force or effect whatsoever, and shall not be referred to or used for any purpose whatsoever."},{"page":6,"quote":"Settlement Agreement is fully executed by all Parties and their counsel; and (ii) the Court has entered an order approving the Settlement Agreement. 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Defendant shall not be required to pay more than the Total Settlement Sum to obtain the relief (including, but not limited to, the Settlement, releases of claims, issuance of the Final Order, dismissing all of Plaintiff’s claims with prejudice in their entirety,) provided in this Agreement or to fully and finally settle and resolve Plaintiff’s individual claims."},{"page":8,"quote":"The parties acknowledge that as of October 1, 2025, Defendant has employed an estimated total of 487 non-exempt employees between February 13, 2024 and October 1, 2025 and that these 487 employees collectively worked an estimated 8,711 pay periods between February 13, 2024 and October 1, 2025. Defendant represents that when adding additional pay periods by those individuals still employed by Defendant on October 1, 2025, the total number of estimated pay periods worked by all non-exempt employees does not exceed 10% of the 8,711 pay periods used to formulate the parties’ respective settlement position. Defendant will confirm the foregoing is true and correct in writing to Haulk & Herrera LLP at least seven business days prior to the prospective motion to approve PAGA settlement."},{"page":8,"quote":"Notwithstanding the above, in the event that this Agreement is voided or nullified, in whole or in part, however that may occur, or the Settlement of the Action is barred by operation of law, or invalidated, or ordered not to be carried out by a Court of competent jurisdiction, Defendant will cease to have any obligation to pay any portion of the Total Settlement Sum to anyone, and all previous disbursements from the Total Settlement Sum (any Individual Employee Penalty Payment, and/or the LWDA Penalty Payment) will immediately be paid back to Defendant by the person(s) and/or entity who received such disbursement."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $35,000 base is subject to court approval, the agreement’s appeal/finality provisions, and its pay-period escalation clause; full funding is due within 30 days after approval following execution. 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If the Court does not grant Final Approval, the fact that the Parties were willing to 24 stipulate to the certification of the specified class for the purposes of this Agreement shall have no 25 bearing on, or be admissible in connection with, certification of the class in a non-settlement context. 26 If Final Approval does not occur, this Agreement shall be deemed null and void, shall be of no force 27 or effect whatsoever, and shall not be referred to or used for any purpose whatsoever."},{"page":11,"quote":"If Class Members collectively holding Individual Settlement Amounts valued at more than 11 ten percent (10%) of the Net Settlement Amount submit timely and valid Requests for Exclusion 12 from the Class, as described in Section 3.04.b above, and thus become Non-Participating Class 13 Members, Defendant shall have the right, but not the obligation, to void the Agreement."},{"page":12,"quote":"Under no 22 circumstances will Defendant be required to pay more than $375,000.00 for any reason under this 23 Agreement."},{"page":15,"quote":"Defendant shall wire the Maximum Settlement Amount, plus the employer’s share of payroll 5 taxes, to the Settlement Administrator within five (5) business days of the Effective Date."}],"conditionsSummary":"The settlement requires preliminary and final court approval and appeal finality. 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Judgment. As part of the Motion to approve this Settlement, Plaintiff 8 shall submit a proposed order and judgment that dismisses the Class Claims upon the 9 occurrence of the Effective Date, dismisses Plaintiff’s individual claims with 10 prejudice upon the occurrence of the Effective Date, and enters judgment in the 11 Action in accordance with the terms of this Settlement and retains jurisdiction over 12 the Action for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Settlement following 13 approval of this Settlement. This Settlement Agreement is expressly conditioned 14 upon the Court entering judgment as set forth herein. The judgment will not release 15 or bar any claims other than the PAGA Released Claims as to Plaintiff and Aggrieved 16 Employees, and Plaintiff’s individual claims."},"rationale":"The definition on physical page 3 identifies the total payable fund. 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Termination of Settlement. If the Court does not approve this Settlement 25 Agreement, if the Court does not enter judgment, as provided for in this Settlement, 26 if the Court does not approve dismissal of the Class Claims, or if appellate review is 27 sought and, on such review, the Court’s decision is materially modified or reversed, 28 or if one or more of the terms of this Settlement is not approved or is materially"},{"page":10,"quote":"modified or reversed or found to be invalid, then any of the Parties shall have the 2 right within ten (10) days of written notice thereof to elect to terminate this 3 Settlement, in which case this Settlement shall have no force or effect, and the Parties 4 shall be deemed to have reverted to their respective status as of the date and time 5 immediately prior to the execution of this Settlement and after the execution of the 6 Parties’ Memorandum of Understanding, fully executed on May 7, 2020."},{"page":14,"quote":"53. Nullification of Settlement. In the event that: (i) the Court does not 17 approve this Settlement as provided herein; or (ii) this Settlement does not become 18 final for any other reason, then this Settlement and any documents generated to bring 19 it into effect, will be null and void, and the Parties will be returned to their original 20 respective positions."}],"conditionsSummary":"Court approval, the specified judgment and appeal finality are conditions. Funding is due 30 calendar days after the Effective Date, conditioned on completed vendor forms and W-9s. 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In consideration for granting Defendant a general release, within 26 calendar days after the Approval Date, the Settlement Administrator shall distribute to Plaintiff a general release payment not to exceed $3,000."},"rationale":"The actual signed/filed order expressly approves the maximum gross and the incorporated agreement defines it as the total payable. The separate $3,000 payment purchases a broad personal release, while the balance resolves the representative PAGA proceeding, supporting unclassified mixed scope. The source’s occasional generic enhancement wording does not erase the specifically priced General Release Payment. 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Therefore, the Parties agree that if the actual total number of Aggrieved Employees exceeds 93 by more than 10% – or more than 102 Aggrieved Employees – then the Maximum Settlement Amount shall be increased pro rata for each additional Aggrieved Employee who worked during the PAGA Period (i.e, for each additional Aggrieved Employee the Maximum Settlement Amount shall be increased by 93/92,500, or $994.62)."},{"page":3,"quote":"10 calendar days after Approval Date Deadline for the Defendant to pay the Maximum Settlement Amount to the Settlement Administrator"},{"page":3,"quote":"15 calendar days after Approval Date Deadline for payments to Plaintiff’s Counsel for litigation costs and attorneys’ fees, and General Release Payment to Plaintiff"},{"page":3,"quote":"30 calendar days after Approval Date Deadline for Settlement Administrator’s mailing of Settlement Shares to Aggrieved Employees"}],"conditionsSummary":"The filed approval order adopts the original agreement and amendment. 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(“PAGA”) payment, shall be paid."},"rationale":"The definition expressly names the total gross and the included class and PAGA payments, with employer taxes excluded. The same agreement identifies both underlying court actions, and the amount must be counted once. Conditional escalation and nullification are stated, not treated as realized increases or completed approval.","conditions":[{"page":20,"quote":"15. COURT APPROVAL 2 This Agreement is contingent upon an order by the Court granting Final Approval of the 3 Settlement, and that the LWDA does not intervene and object to the Settlement. In the event it 4 becomes impossible to secure approval of the Settlement by the Court and the LWDA, the Parties 5 shall be restored to their respective positions in the Actions prior to entry of this Settlement. If 6 this Settlement Agreement is voided, not approved by the Court or approval is reversed on appeal, 7 it shall have no force or effect and no Party shall be bound by its terms except to the extent: (a) 8 the Court reserves any authority to issue any appropriate orders when denying approval; and/or 9 (b) there are any terms and conditions in this Settlement Agreement specifically stated to survive 10 the Settlement Agreement being voided or not approved, and which control in such an event."},{"page":20,"quote":"16. INCREASE IN WORKWEEKS 12 Defendants represents that there are no more than 42,717 Workweeks in the Class 13 Period. In the event the number of Workweeks increases by more than 10%, or 4,272 14 Workweeks, then the Gross Settlement Amount shall be increased proportionally by the 15 Workweek Value. The Workweek Value shall be calculated by dividing the Gross Settlement 16 Amount ($540,000.00) by 42,717, which amounts to a Workweek Value of $12.64. 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Defendants shall exercise this right within ten (10) calendar days of the Settlement 5 Administrator providing notification of the number of Class Members that opted out after 6 expiration of the opt-out period."},{"page":21,"quote":"If, after a notice of appeal or a petition for a writ of certiorari or any other motion, 16 petition, or application, the reviewing court vacates, reverses, or materially modifies the Final 17 Order and Judgment such that there is a material modification to the Settlement and that 18 court’s decision is not completely reversed, and the Final Order and Judgment is not 19 materially affirmed on review by a higher court, then Plaintiff and Defendants shall each 20 have the right, but not the obligation, to void the Settlement, which must be done by giving 21 written notice to the other Parties, the final reviewing court, and the Court not later than ten 22 (10) calendar days after the final reviewing court’s decision vacating, reversing or materially 23 modifying the Final Order becomes final and non-appealable."},{"page":23,"quote":"F. 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Defendant shall fully fund the Gross 2 Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator in three installment payments 3 as follows: a first payment of $145,000.000 at 30 days after the Effective Date (“The First 4 Installment”), a second payment of $145,000.00 at 180 days after the Effective Date (“The 5 Second Installment”), and a third and final payment of $145,000.00 at 365 days after the Effective 6 Date (“The Third Installment”)."},{"page":11,"quote":"Escalator Clause. The Settlement is based on Defendant’s representation at the 24 time of mediation that there are no more than 23,000 Pay Periods worked during the PAGA 25 Period. In the event the number of Pay Periods during the PAGA Period increases by more than 26 10%, or an additional 2,300 Pay Periods, the Gross Settlement Amount shall be increased by the 27 number of Pay Periods greater than 25,300 multiplied by the Pay Period Value (approximately 28 $19.34 per Pay Periods). 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All claims of the Settlement Class and all administration costs, attorneys’ fees and 23 costs, Incentive Awards, and the LWDA payment for the PAGA claim shall be paid out of the Gross 24 Settlement Amount. No part of the Gross Settlement amount shall revert to Defendant, and the 25 employer’s share of payroll taxes shall be paid separate from the Gross Settlement Amount."},"rationale":"The definition includes class claims, fees/costs, three service awards and the PAGA payment in a single nonreversionary gross; no separately priced personal claim or collective opt-in amount is shown. 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If Defendant wishes to exercise its conditional right to rescind, it 15 must do so by written communication to Class Counsel that is received by Class Counsel no later 16 than seven (7) calendar days after Defendant receives the Settlement Administrator’s declaration 17 described in Section 3.03. 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At its option, Defendant can avoid increasing the GSA by electing to end the PAGA Period when the number of pay periods reaches 15,400."},{"page":2,"quote":"1.10 “Effective Date” means the date by when both of the following have occurred: (a) the Court enters a Judgment on its Order Approving the PAGA Settlement and (b) the Judgment is final. The Judgment is final as of the latest of the following occurrences: (a) the day the Court enters Judgment."},{"page":5,"quote":"4.3 Funding of Gross Settlement Amount. Defendant shall fully fund the Gross Settlement Amount by transmitting the funds to the Administrator within 15 days of the Effective Date."},{"page":6,"quote":"4.4 Payments from the Gross Settlement Amount. Within 14 days after Defendant funds the Gross Settlement Amount, the Administrator will mail checks for all Individual PAGA Payments, the LWDA PAGA Payment, the Administration Expenses Payment, the PAGA Counsel Fees Payment, and the PAGA Counsel Litigation Expenses Payment."},{"page":6,"quote":"Effective on the date when Defendant fully funds the entire Gross Settlement Amount, Plaintiff, on behalf of herself, the State of California, and all Aggrieved Employees, will release claims against all Released Parties as follows:"},{"page":9,"quote":"If another party appeals the Judgment, the Parties’ obligations to perform under this Agreement will be suspended until such time as the appeal is finally resolved and the Judgment becomes final, except as to matters that do not affect the amount of the Net Settlement Amount."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $226,000 base is subject to the pay-period clause: above the stated 10%/15,400 threshold, Plaintiff may request a proportional increase above that threshold, or Defendant may end the period at 15,400. Full funding is due within 15 days of the Effective Date, defined by approval and entry of final judgment; checks follow within 14 days. Releases require full funding. A third-party appeal suspends obligations except matters not affecting the net amount."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T19:05:35.443370+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"4ae411a84958ca38cab9b545b286c2796612ccd4854b8e43162517b03eaca7ab","economicSettlementId":"settlement-1010046-24-d9044a99db82","duplicateResolution":{"status":"supersedes","comparedObservationIds":["LWDA-CM-1010046-24"],"rationale":"Explicit correction of the baseline observation. The actual agreement and filed FAC concern Anderson/Nate’s in CV65881. Exact court, full claimant and employer FTS searches establish no outside fund. This replaces the one same-case historical $226,000 record for source and scope enrichment; it does not add a duplicate."},"prior":{"id":"LWDA-CM-1010046-24","recordSha256":"afbd7e26fb6416e8c1ba2e86237f51d08244b571c2606099d0419d84e69c391a"}},{"reviewId":"batch-0068-1036339-24-gross-v1","action":"add","recordId":"expanded-1036339-24","recordSha256":"62077c655452b9b201a2b0a34f5ec3d2406080479dfcb43bd8acc7c6eaa0db9d","sourceSha256":"7e2da392632f5e4509588b49d2231d8c24bfe071b0b9b14ce994cc0059ac6c95","sourcePage":3,"sourceBytes":3424888,"sourceTextBasis":"native","sourcePageTextSha256":"bce956371d6893cb48b91bcaf46ddf09ee5615f9a94c4c45f4003bdf9d66756d","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"paga-only","scopeEvidence":{"page":4,"quote":"1.23 Released Claims. “Released Claims” shall mean all claims for PAGA penalties"},"rationale":"The complete instrument fixes a gross and requires funding of that gross after the Effective Date. Its Released Claims are PAGA penalties; expressly described representative-service enhancements also buy general releases. Allocation contradictions are material disclosures but do not change the express gross.","conditions":[{"page":10,"quote":"5.8 Escalator: The Gross Settlement Amount is based on Defendant’s estimate that the 23 PAGA Members worked approximately 75,476 pay periods from May 30, 2022 through August 12, 24 2024. Should the qualifying pay periods worked by the PAGA Members ultimately increase as of 25 the date of approval of this Settlement by more than 10% (i.e. if the pay periods exceed 83,024) 26 Defendant, at its option, can either choose to: (1) cut off the end date for the PAGA Period as of the 27 date on which the number of workweeks reaches 83,024, or (2) increase the Gross Settlement 28 Amount on a proportional basis equal to the percentage increase in number of workweeks worked"},{"page":11,"quote":"by the PAGA Members above the 10% (i.e., if there was an 11% increase in the number workweeks 2 during the PAGA Period, Defendant would agree to increase the Gross Settlement Amount by 1%)."},{"page":2,"quote":"1.8 Effective Date. “Effective Date” shall be the date this Settlement is approved and 9 the Court’s order granting Settlement Approval and entry of Final Judgment becomes final and is 10 no longer appealable. For purposes of this Settlement, “becomes final and is no longer appealable” 11 shall mean the later of: (a) the day after the last date by which a notice of appeal to the applicable 12 Court of Appeal of the order and judgment approving this Settlement may be timely filed and none 13 is filed (i.e., 61 days from notice of entry of judgment); (b) if an appeal is filed, and the appeal is 14 finally disposed of by ruling, dismissal, denial, or in any other manner that confirms the validity of 15 the order and judgment, the day after the last date for filing a request for further review of the order 16 and judgment approving this Settlement passes, and no further review is requested; or (c) if an appeal 17 is filed and the order approving this Settlement is affirmed and further review of the order is 18 requested, the day after the review is finally resolved and the order and judgment approving this 19 Settlement is affirmed. In the event that: (i) the Court does not approve the Settlement; or (ii) the 20 Effective Date does not occur for any other reason, then this Settlement Agreement, and any 21 documents generated to bring it into effect, will be null and void, and the Parties will be returned to 22 their respective positions. In the event that the court rejects the Settlement without prejudice, 23 Plaintiffs’ counsel shall take all reasonable steps to obtain approval."},{"page":11,"quote":"7.1 Funding of the Gross Settlement Amount. The Settlement Administrator will 15 provide Defendant with its bank wire instructions to establish the Qualified Settlement Fund (QSF). 16 Within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date, Defendant shall transmit the Gross Settlement 17 Amount to the Settlement Administrator. 18 7.2 Distribution of the Gross Settlement Amount. No later than 21 calendar days 19 after Defendant provides the Settlement Administrator with the Gross Settlement Amount, the 20 Administrator will pay to Settlement Group Members, their Individual Settlement Payments via first- 21 class regular U.S. Mail; to PAGA Counsel, the Court-awarded Attorneys’ Fees and Litigation 22 Expenses Payment; to the LWDA, the Court-approved LWDA Payment; Enhancement Awards to 23 Plaintiffs; and to the Administrator, the Court-awarded Administration Fees and Expenses."},{"page":12,"quote":"8.1 Non-Approval of the Agreement. If (a) the Court should for any reason fail to 3 approve this Agreement in the form agreed to by the Parties, or (b) the Court should for any reason 4 fail to enter a judgment on this Action, or (c) the approval of the Settlement and judgment is reversed, 5 modified or declared or rendered void, then the Settlement shall be considered null and void, and 6 neither the Settlement nor any of the related negotiations or proceedings shall be of any force or 7 effect, and all Parties to the Settlement shall stand in the same position, without prejudice, as if the 8 Settlement has been neither entered into nor filed with the Court. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the 9 Parties may attempt in good faith to cure any perceived defects in the Agreement to facilitate 10 approval. In the event the Court awards less than the requested amounts for Administration Fees, 11 PAGA Counsel’s Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses, Enhancement Awards to Plaintiffs (if any), or the 12 PAGA Payment, the difference shall become part of the Net Settlement Amount. 13 8.2 Invalidation. Invalidation of any material portion of the Settlement shall 14 invalidate the Settlement in its entirety, unless the Parties shall subsequently agree in writing that the 15 remaining provisions of the Settlement are to remain in full force and effect. 16 8.3 Stay Upon Appeal. In the event of a timely appeal from the approval of the 17 Settlement and Judgment, the Judgment shall be stayed, and Defendant shall not be obligated to fund 18 the Gross Settlement Amount or take any other actions required by this Agreement until all appeal 19 rights have been exhausted by operation of law."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $994,188 base is subject to the escalator based on 75,476 pay periods: above 83,024, Defendant may cut off the period at that threshold or increase gross proportionally above 10%. The clause alternates “pay periods” and “workweeks.” Full funding is due within 30 days of the Effective Date after approval and appellate finality; distribution follows within 21 days. 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In consideration for the covenants, promises, 6 waivers, and releases contained in this Agreement, and subject to Court approval, Defendant 7 shall pay the sum of $285,00.00 in full and final settlement of the PAGA claims that were 8 and reasonably could have been alleged based on the facts asserted in the Lawsuit."},"rationale":"The complete operative promise fixes a nonreversionary gross expressly for PAGA claims and representative enhancements. Personal releases and arbitration dismissals are disclosed, as is the separate unretained individual instrument, without inventing its price or treating general-release language alone as a separately priced mixed fund.","conditions":[{"page":8,"quote":"The Gross 9 Settlement Amount is non-reversionary. The Gross Settlement Amount shall be tendered, 10 in full, to the Settlement Administrator no later than thirty (30) calendar days after the 11 Effective Date."},{"page":6,"quote":"(g) “Effective Date” means the date by when all of the following events have occurred: (i) 24 this Settlement Agreement has been executed by Plaintiff and Defendants; and (ii) 25 the Court has entered an order granting approval to the Settlement and final judgment 26 in the Lawsuit."},{"page":8,"quote":"15. Escalator Clause. Defendant has represented that there were approximately 27 29,000 pay periods worked by Aggrieved Employees during the PAGA Release Period, 28 through the date of the mediation in this matter. Plaintiff has relied upon this material"},{"page":9,"quote":"representation in entering into this Settlement. Should the number of pay periods worked 2 by Aggrieved Employees during the PAGA Release Period exceed 29,000 by more than 10% 3 (i.e. exceed 31,900), then, at Defendant’s election, either (a)the Gross Settlement Amount 4 shall increase by 1% for each percentage increase over that 10% threshold (for example, if 5 the number of pay periods is 11% higher than 29,000, the Gross Settlement Amount will be 6 increased by 1%), or (b) the PAGA Release Period shall be modified to end on a date as of 7 which the number of pay periods worked by Aggrieved Employees during the PAGA Release 8 Period does not exceed 30,450. Defendant shall notify Plaintiff of any election to modify the 9 PAGA Release Period pursuant to this Section 14 no later than thirty (30) calendar days 10 before the date of the hearing on a motion for Court approval of this settlement."},{"page":11,"quote":"c. Within thirty (30) calendar days after receipt of the Gross Settlement Amount, 13 the Administrator will mail checks for all Individual PAGA Payments, the 14 LWDA PAGA Payment, the Administration Expenses Payment, Plaintiffs’ 15 Enhancement Award, PAGA Counsel Fees Payment, and PAGA Counsel 16 Expenses Payment. Disbursement of the PAGA Counsel Litigation Expenses 17 Payment shall not precede disbursement of Individual PAGA Payments."},{"page":15,"quote":"24. Impact of Non-Approval by the Court. Should the Court deny approval of this 24 Agreement, the Parties shall work jointly to make reasonable efforts to attempt to address 25 the Court’s concerns in order to obtain the Court’s approval, except that Defendant will not 26 be required under any circumstances to increase the Gross Settlement Amount. If the Parties 27 cannot obtain Court approval, the Parties shall be restored to their respective litigation 28 positions before they entered into this Agreement."},{"page":18,"quote":"If another party appeals the Judgment, the 5 Parties’ obligations to perform under this Agreement will be suspended until such time as 6 the appeal is finally resolved and the Judgment becomes final, except as to matters that do 7 not affect the amount of the Net Settlement Amount."}],"conditionsSummary":"The $285,000 base must be funded in full within 30 days after execution and court approval/final judgment; payments follow within 30 days of funding. Above 31,900 pay periods, Defendant may increase gross by the percentage exceeding 10% over 29,000, or shorten the release period to no more than 30,450 pay periods, with notice at least 30 days before the approval hearing. If approval cannot be obtained, litigation positions are restored; Defendant need not increase gross to obtain approval. 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The second LWDA ID shares that fund, not a second gross."}]},{"reviewId":"batch-0068-804348-20-gross-v1","action":"add","recordId":"expanded-804348-20","recordSha256":"52bbd158ac69a0f23d9c92e75ae287700235fc2c9327e3fabf3ff560d65c86d6","sourceSha256":"30228d33b843d60a373cff235eff510b40e54b202f9bb2beed83d6202256a010","sourcePage":3,"sourceBytes":6807253,"sourceTextBasis":"ocr-visual","sourcePageTextSha256":"9b2d354eb6f4aad872708a1d67d17d87b2774c541bfef687e90b5c5222a35533","semantic":{"ownCase":true,"amountRole":"gross-settlement","amountSemantics":"stated-gross-with-conditions","scope":"unclassified","scopeEvidence":{"page":3,"quote":"The sum of $5,000 shall be paid to Gaudencio Alvarado Garcia in exchange of the release of his wage claims against Defendant."},"rationale":"The later signed court instrument expressly fixes and orders the gross, so the earlier $50,000 agreement is superseded rather than added. The order independently prices $5,000 wage-release consideration apart from the representative enhancement and PAGA penalties, supporting unclassified mixed scope. Visual support corrects only hidden-text extraction errors by transcribing the actual page.","conditions":[{"page":3,"quote":"The Court approves the Gross Settlement Fund of $75,667.41 and orders it to be distributed, in accordance with the procedure set forth in the Settlement Agreement, as follows:"},{"page":2,"quote":"All terms used herein shall have the same meaning as defined in the Settlement Agreement attached as Exhibit 1 to the Declaration of Michael Nourmand."}],"conditionsSummary":"The signed and filed August 22, 2022 amended judgment approves and orders distribution of the $75,667.41 gross under the settlement procedure. The earlier agreement ties funding to execution, approval and appellate finality and requires funding within ten days of its Effective Date, with employer payroll taxes outside the gross. Its 2,266-pay-period escalator applies to the net amount above the stated 2,379 threshold, with an alternative period adjustment. The retained amended order supplies the operative gross and a different ending period; the source does not establish why those terms changed or whether payment occurred."},"reviewedBy":"case_document_loading","reviewedAt":"2026-10-20T19:05:35.443370+00:00","reviewArtifactSha256":"6d6e39617c14cf1c7cec848a367b7e02e9d2e2e7fd4350c845ea6985086d09bc","economicSettlementId":"settlement-804348-20-30228d33b843","duplicateResolution":{"status":"distinct","comparedObservationIds":[],"rationale":"No baseline observation shares the exact case or original. The two retained instruments share the exact Garcia/H&R case and settlement, with a later amended gross and period. Exact party/court and focused employer FTS queries find no outside retained document establishing another economic settlement. The broad multi-party caption is not a basis to duplicate the fund. 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The service/general-release payment does not create a separately priced additional private fund.","conditions":[{"page":8,"quote":"“Effective Date” means the date on which all three of these events have finally occurred: [1] the Court enters an order granting preliminary approval of the Settlement; [2] the Court enters an order granting final approval of the Settlement; [3] if there are no objectors, the date the Court signs the order granting final approval of the Settlement; [4] if there are objectors then 61 calendar days from the date the Court signs the order granting final approval of Settlement; and [5] if an appeal is filed then the date the appeal is resolved in favor of enforcement of the Settlement."},{"page":22,"quote":"No later than 7 calendar days after the Effective Date has passed, O&M shall pay to the Claims Administrator the amount necessary to fund the QSF."},{"page":22,"quote":"The Settlement Payments to Settlement Class Members, the Service Enhancement Payment to the Class Representative, the PAGA payment to the LWDA, and the attorneys’ fees and litigation costs to Class Counsel will be paid by the Claims Administrator no later than 15 calendar days after the Effective Date."},{"page":16,"quote":"O&M has the right in its sole and exclusive discretion to terminate and withdraw from the Settlement if: (a) the Settlement is construed in such a fashion that O&M is required to pay more than the Maximum Settlement Sum; (b) the Court does not certify a settlement class action releasing the claims set forth in this Stipulation, or otherwise makes an order materially inconsistent with any of the terms of this Stipulation or the settlement documents prepared to effectuate the Settlement; (c) any court following the signing of this Stipulation but before final approval of the Settlement certifies, whether on a conditional basis or not, a class or collective action involving a claim described in this Stipulation by potential class members covered by this Settlement; (d) the Court denies either preliminary or final approval of the Settlement; or (e) more than 5% of the Settlement Class Members opt-out of the Settlement."}],"conditionsSummary":"Preliminary and final approval and resolution of any challenge in favor of enforcement are conditions. 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