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Nature of Suit Code: 443
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Accommodations
Cause of Action: 42:1981 Housing Discrimination

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LaRELL FRANKLIN, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

 v.

ALLSTATE CORPORATION et al.,

Defendant

 /

No. C-06-1909 MMC

ORDER RE: MINORS’ COMPROMISE;

SETTING HEARING 

The Court is in receipt of the Supplemental Declaration of plaintiffs’ counsel, Richard

A. Canatella, filed January 3, 2008 in support of the Second Amended Petition for Approval

of Minors’ Compromise.

In said declaration, counsel represents that the share of the settlement proceeds

allocated collectively to the two minor plaintiffs (Deaneer Mona Franklin and Coti Alexander

Franklin) and one former minor plaintiff (Ambra Franklin) is $37,500. See Supplemental

Declaration ¶¶ 5, 6 (stating each of said plaintiff’s net share of the settlement funds is

$10,000, for a net total of $30,000, and each of said plaintiff’s share of the attorney’s fees is

$2500, for a total of $7500). 

As each of said plaintiff’s net share is equal to that of the others, as is the amount of

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The latter percentage is calculated based on counsel’s representation in his

Supplemental Declaration that the shares payable to Lisa Lemmons and Deborah Spade

are “net of the distributees’ allocable shares of attorney’s fees.” See Supp. Dec. ¶ 3. In the

Second Amended Petition, counsel suggests no attorney’s fees were allocated to those

shares. See SAP ¶ 8 (“[A]fter deducting Plaintiffs’ attorney’s fees and payment of an

agreed share of the property damage claims of Lisa Lemmons and Deborah Spade from

the settlement amount, ninety thousand ($90,000) remained. . . .”).

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said attorney’s fees attributable thereto, see id., counsel represents, in effect, that the gross

settlement allocated to each of the minor plaintiffs is $12,500 and the net settlement after

attorney’s fees is $10,000. Based on counsel’s representations, the attorney’s fees

allocated to each minor’s settlement would be 20% of each such settlement, as compared

to approximately 33a% attributable to the balance of the settlement funds.1

In the Second Amended Petition, however, counsel represents that the attorney’s

fees and expenses were deducted at the outset from the total settlement amount of

$150,000, leaving a balance of $90,000, which, in turn, was divided equally among the

three groups of heirs. 

Accordingly, the Court hereby sets a hearing on the Second Amended Petition for

Approval of Minors’ Compromise, said hearing to be conducted on February 8, 2008 at

9:00 a.m. In conjunction with the hearing, should petitioner wish to clarify the abovereferenced apparent discrepancy by submitting a further declaration, any such declaration

shall be filed no later than February 1, 2008.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 18, 2008 

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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