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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT —No. C-03-01380 RMW

JAH

E-FILED on 5/26/06

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

FAMILY MORTGAGE CORPORATION

NO. 15,

Plaintiff,

v.

PERRY L. GREINER,

Defendant.

No. C-03-01380 RMW

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

ENFORCE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT

[Re Docket Nos. 105, 122, 130, 147-49]

As announced at the recent hearing, the motion to enforce the settlement stated at the

October 19, 2004 hearing is granted. The settlement consists of the corrected October 15, 2004

agreement, signed and initialed by Greiner, as modified by the "Changes Document."

The court will enforce the settlement as follows: Under the October 15, 2004 agreement (as

modified), if Greiner did not sell the Property by July 31, 2005, the Property was to be auctioned

under the terms of paragraph 9 of that agreement. Paragraph 9 called for the parties to select an

auctioneer by October 25, 2004 who would begin marketing the property in August 2005 for an

auction in October 2005. As Greiner has caused these dates to pass without an auction occurring,

Family Mortgage Corporation No. 15 shall have the authority to hire Uecker & Associates, Inc. to

conduct an auction of the Property on the terms presented to the court, see Uecker Decl., Exs. B, C,

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 The court has received the proposed order and judgment as well as the letters filed on May 26,

2006. As all the terms of the proposed order and judgment were not part of the settlement presented

to the court on October 19, 2004, and Greiner does not appear to have agreed to them, the court will

not enter them.

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and in accordance with paragraph 9, except that the schedules in those documents shall be

reasonably modified to accommodate the delay caused by Greiner.1

The court retains jurisdiction over this action to enforce compliance with the settlement.

The court took the issue of sanctions under submission. The court finds Greiner's declaration

that he was not agreeing to a settlement at the October 19, 2004 hearing incredible. A district court

has the power to award damages against a party for not complying with a settlement agreement,

including awarding attorneys' fees expended by the party seeking to enforce the settlement

agreement. TNT Mktg., Inc. v. Agresti, 796 F.2d 276, 278 (9th Cir. 1986) (per curiam). The court

finds that fifteen hours was a reasonable amount of attorney time for Family Mortgage and Eastern

Saving Bank to spend on enforcing the settlement agreement, and that $250 per hour is a reasonable

rate for this work; the court will therefore award Family Mortgage and Eastern Savings Bank $3,750

in damages against Greiner for refusing to comply with the settlement agreement. In light of this

award of damages, the court finds Rule 11 sanctions against Greiner are unnecessary.

Though the court questions the legal basis for resisting the motion to enforce the settlement

agreement, the court does not find sanctions against Greiner's counsel warranted, as counsel acted on

client-provided information and did not represent Greiner at the time of the settlement.

DATED: 5/26/06

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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Notice of this document has been electronically sent to:

Counsel for Plaintiff:

Mark V. Isola misola@rehonroberts.com 

Peter M. Rehon prehon@rehonroberts.com 

Tiffany L. Goodman 

Tyler J. Olson tolson@rehonroberts.com

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel that have not registered

for e-filing under the court's CM/ECF program.

A copy will also be mailed to:

Stanford H. Atwood, Jr.; Eric S. Haiman 

Atwood Haiman & Westerberg 

18805 Cox Ave 

Suite 200 

Saratoga, CA 95070-4183 

Dated: 5/26/06 /s/ JH 

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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