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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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NOTICE AND ORDER OF DISMISSAL OF ENTIRE 

ACTION WITH PREJUDICE 1 C 06 4428 JCS

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DEBORAH A. COOKSEY, State Bar No. 118197 

MARTIN H. KRESSE, State Bar No. 048132 

MICHAEL L. SMITH, State Bar No. 217751 

OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 

1025 Second Avenue, Room 406 

Oakland, CA 94606 

Telephone: (510) 879-8535 

Fax: (510) 879-1833 

Attorneys for Defendants 

OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, 

KIMBERLY STATHAM and GOVERNING BOARD OF 

THE OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FARM MENG SAEPHAN, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT; 

KIMBERLY STATHAM, State Administrator of the 

Oakland Unified School District; GOVERNING 

BOARD OF THE OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL 

DISTRICT, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. C 06 4428 JCS 

NOTICE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER OF 

DISMISSAL OF ENTIRE ACTION WITH 

PREJUDICE 

[Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(2)] 

 

TO THE HONORABLE COURT, ALL PARTIES, AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: 

 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff FARM MENG SAEPHAN (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants 

OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT; KIMBERLY STATHAM; and GOVERNING BOARD OF 

THE OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (collectively “Defendants”) (Plaintiff and Defendants 

are collectively referred to hereinafter as the “Parties”), have entered into and duly executed a 

binding and enforceable Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”) in the above-entitled matter 

(“Action”). 

 Pursuant to the primary terms of the Agreement, Defendants have inter alia paid Plaintiff the 

sum of eighty-thousand dollars ($80,000.00) but have not admitted liability for any of the matters 

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alleged in the Action; the Parties have entered into a mutual general release of claims; Defendants 

have agreed that Plaintiff is the prevailing party in this Action for purposes of moving for her 

attorneys’ fees and costs, and that Defendants shall pay Plaintiff’s reasonable attorneys’ fees and 

costs incurred in the Action and in litigating her motion for attorneys’ fees and costs; the Parties 

have agreed that certain aspects of the Agreement shall remain confidential; and the Parties have 

proposed a fee motion briefing schedule (as set forth in the Joint Stipulation filed by the Parties and 

approved by the Court on June 10, 2008). 

 Therefore, by and through their respective counsel of record, the Parties hereby request that 

the Court enter an order dismissing this Action in its entirety with prejudice. The Parties further 

request that the Court retain jurisdiction over Plaintiff’s motion for fees and costs and over 

enforcement of the terms of their Agreement. 

Dated: July 16, 2008 DEBORAH A. COOKSEY 

General Counsel 

By: /s/ 

Deborah A. Cooksey 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Dated: July 16, 2008 THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY 

Christopher Ho 

By: /s/ 

Christopher Ho 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

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ORDER OF DISMISSAL 

 The request of Plaintiff and Defendants to dismiss the above-captioned Action as settled by 

the Parties with prejudice pursuant to Rule 41(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is 

before the Court. After consideration and approval of the primary terms of the Settlement 

Agreement incorporated in the Parties’ Notice of Dismissal of Entire Action with Prejudice (“Notice”), 

this Court finds that this joint request should be granted. 

 IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that this Action is dismissed in its entirety with prejudice. 

 FURTHERMORE, the Court expressly incorporates into this Order the primary terms of the 

Agreement as set forth in the Notice and expressly retains jurisdiction over this Action for purposes 

of enforcing the Agreement and this Order, as well as hearing Plaintiff’s motion for fees and costs. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ________________________ ______________________________________ 

 THE HONORABLE JOSEPH C. SPERO 

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July 27, 2008

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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Judge Joseph C. Spero

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