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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 29:201 Fair Labor Standards Act

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Case No. 4:17-cv-07205-HSG [PROPOSED] JUDGMENT 

MATTHEW RIGHETTI, State Bar No. 121012 

matt@righettilaw.com 

JOHN GLUGOSKI, State Bar No. 191551 

John@righettilaw.com 

MICHAEL RIGHETTI, State Bar No. 258541 

456 Montgomery Street 

Suite 1400 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: (415) 983-0900 

Facsimile: (415) 397-9005 

REUBEN D. NATHAN, State Bar No 208436 

rnathan@nathanlawpractice.com 

NATHAN & ASSOCIATES, APC 

600 W. Broadway, suite 700 

San Diego, CA 92101 

Attorneys For Plaintiffs 

BRANDON NORONA and LINDA CORBIN 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BRANDON NORONA, and LINDA 

CORBIN, individually and on behalf of all 

others similarly situated, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

HOME POINT FINANCIAL 

CORPORATION, 

Defendant. 

4:17-cv-07205-HSG 

FINAL JUDGMENT 

Judge: Hon. Haywood Gilliam, Jr. 

Date: Sept. 26, 2019 

Time: 1:30 p.m. 

Courtroom: 4 

Complaint Filed: December 19, 2017 

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 2. Case No. 4:17-cv-07205-HSG 

JUDGMENT 

On April 12, 2019, the Court issued an Order granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary 

Approval of the class action/collective/representative settlement reached with Defendant Home 

Point Financial Corporation (“Home Point”) (ECF No. 52). On April 22, 2019, the Court issued 

an Order on Stipulation Re Order on Motion for Settlement Administration Schedule for Class 

Collective Settlement (ECF No. 56). On August 19, 2019, Plaintiffs filed their Motion for Final 

Approval of this settlement (ECF No. 59). On November 6, 2019, the Court issued an order 

granting final approval (ECF No. 64). 

Having finally approved the parties’ Settlement, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, 

ADJUDGED AND DECREED: 

1. The Settlement Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference in this Order, and all terms 

or phrases used in this Order shall have the same meaning as in the Settlement Agreement. 

2. The Settlement Agreement reached by the parties constitutes a fair, reasonable, and 

adequate resolution of a bona fide dispute in this matter. 

3. The Notice of Class Action Settlement and the Notice of Collective Settlement fairly and 

adequately advised Settlement Class Members and Settlement Collective Members, 

respectively, of their right to receive their share of the Settlement, the scope and effect of 

the Settlement’s Released Claims, the rights and obligations of Settlement Class Members 

and Settlement Collective Members relating to the relief provided through the Settlement, 

the Court’s preliminary approval of the proposed Settlement Class Members’ right to 

exclude themselves from and/or object to the Settlement, the Settlement Class Members 

and Settlement Collective Members’ right to participate in the Settlement, the date of the 

Final Approval Hearing, and the right to file documentation in support of or in opposition 

to the Settlement and to appear in connection with the Final Approval Hearing. 

Settlement Class Members and Settlement Collective Members had adequate time to 

consider this information and to use the procedures identified in the Notice of Class 

Action Settlement and the Notice of Collective Settlement. The Court finds and 

determines that these notice procedures afforded adequate protections to Settlement Class 

Members and Settlement Collective Members, and that the Notice of Class Action 

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JUDGMENT 

Settlement and the Notice of Collective Settlement was the best notice practicable, which 

satisfied the requirements of law and due process. 

4. The Court hereby finds that the Parties’ notice of the proposed Settlement submitted to the 

Attorney General of the United States and the appropriate state officials fully and 

adequately complied with the notice requirements set forth in the Class Action Fairness 

Act of 2005, 28 U.S.C. § 1715. 

5. The Court hereby finds that the Parties’ notice of the proposed Settlement submitted to the 

California Labor Workforce Development Agency fully and adequately complied with the 

notice requirements of the Private Attorney General Act, California Labor Code § 2699(l). 

6. The Court, having found that each of the elements of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 

Rule 23(a) and 23(b)(3) are satisfied, for settlement purposes only, certifies the following 

Settlement Class: All persons currently or previously employed by Defendant in 

California, including under its prior name, Maverick Funding Corp., as originators, 

mortgage professionals, loan officers, loan processors and other non-exempt employees in 

positions that were eligible for commissions and/or non-discretionary bonuses, the 

amounts of which are measured by or dependent on hours worked, production, or 

efficiency, from December 19, 2013 through and including September 30, 2018, who have 

not previously released their claims. The Settlement Class does not include any person 

who was employed solely by Stonegate Capital Corporation and/or Cross-Line Capital, 

Inc. in California. Individuals employed as a non-exempt inside loan agent, mortgage 

advisor, or mortgage loan officer at Stonegate Capital Corporation and/or Cross-Line 

Capital, Inc. and subsequently employed by Defendant while residing in California as 

non-exempt employee, in positions that were eligible for commissions and/or nondiscretionary bonuses, the amounts of which are measured by or dependent on hours 

worked, production, or efficiency are included in the Settlement Class but only for the 

period of time employed by Defendant starting June 1, 2017 through and including 

September 30, 2018. 

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JUDGMENT 

7. The Court certifies, for settlement purposes only, the following Settlement Collective and 

finds for this limited purpose the individuals in the Settlement Collective are similarly 

situated as required by 28 U.S.C. § 216(b): All persons currently or previously employed 

by Defendant in the United States while residing outside California, including under 

Defendant’s previous name, Maverick Funding Corp., as non-exempt loan originators, 

mortgage professionals, loan officers, loan processors and other non-exempt employees in 

positions that were eligible for commissions and/or non-discretionary bonuses, the 

amounts of which are measured by or dependent on hours worked, production, or 

efficiency, from December 19, 2014, through and including September 30, 2018, who 

have not previously released their claims. 

8. For purposes of this Judgment and this Settlement only, the Court hereby certifies (a) the 

Settlement Class Members’ Released Claims asserted on behalf of Settlement Class 

Members, as defined in the Settlement Agreement; and (b) the Settlement Collective 

Members’ Released Claims asserted on behalf of Settlement Collective Members, as 

defined in the Settlement Agreement. 

9. The Court hereby approves the settlement of the California Private Attorney General Act 

claims under the terms of the Agreement. 

10. All Settlement Class Members who did not submit timely requests for exclusion 

(“Participating Settlement Class Members”) and all Settlement Collective Members who 

submitted timely requests to opt-in, or late opt-in requests submitted prior to the date 

judgment is entered that were accepted by mutual agreement of the parties (“Participating 

Settlement Collective Members”) shall be subject to all of the provisions of the 

Settlement, the Settlement Agreement, this Order and Final Judgment to be entered by the 

Clerk of the Court. 

11. The Parties are ordered and directed to effectuate the Settlement according to its terms. 

The Court orders the Settlement Administrator to distribute the Settlement funds as 

approved and in accordance with the provisions of the Settlement Agreement upon the 

Effective Date, with the following modifications: 

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JUDGMENT 

a. The Class Counsel Award is reduced from $749,000 to $556,250. 

b. Plaintiff Corbin’s Service Award is reduced from $10,000 to $5,000. 

12. As of the Effective Date, Participating Settlement Class Members and Participating 

Settlement Collective Members shall be deemed to have released the Released Parties 

from all Claims as defined in the Settlement Agreement. All Participating Settlement 

Class Members and Participating Settlement Collective Members are hereby forever 

barred and enjoined from prosecuting the Claims against the Released Parties. The PAGA 

Claims asserted in this action are dismissed with prejudice as to Plaintiff Norona and all 

PAGA Releasees (including all Settlement Class Members who submitted timely requests 

for exclusion) to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Settlement Class Members 

are permanently barred and otherwise enjoined from (i) filing, commencing, prosecuting, 

intervening in, re-opening or participating (as class members or otherwise) in any other 

lawsuit or administrative, regulatory, arbitration, or other proceeding in any jurisdiction 

based on the Released Claims and (ii) organizing Settlement Class Members into a 

separate group, class, or subclass for purposes of pursuing as a purported class action or 

representative or PAGA action, any lawsuit or administrative, regulatory, arbitration, or 

other proceeding (including by seeking to amend a pending complaint to include class or 

PAGA allegations, or seeking class certification in a pending action) based on the 

Released Claims. 

13. Neither the Settlement Agreement nor any provision therein, nor any negotiations, 

statements or proceedings in connection therewith shall be construed as, or be deemed to 

be evidence of, an admission or concession on the part of the Plaintiffs, any Settlement 

Class Member or Settlement Collective Member, Defendant, or any other person of any 

liability or wrongdoing by them, or that the claims and defenses that have been, or could 

have been, asserted in the Action are or are not meritorious, and this Order, the Settlement 

Agreement or any such communications shall not be offered or received in evidence in 

any action or proceeding, or be used in any way as an admission or concession or 

evidence of any liability or wrongdoing of any nature or that Plaintiff, any Settlement 

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JUDGMENT 

Class Member or Settlement Collective Member, or any other person has suffered any 

damage; provided, however, that the Settlement Agreement, this Order, and the Final 

Judgment to be entered thereon may be filed in any action by Defendant or Settlement 

Class or Settlement Collective Members seeking to enforce the Settlement Agreement or 

the Final Judgment by injunctive or other relief, or to assert defenses including, but not 

limited to, res judicata, collateral estoppel, release, good faith settlement, or any theory of 

claim preclusion or issue preclusion or similar defense or counterclaim. The Settlement 

Agreement’s terms shall be forever binding on, and shall have res judicata and preclusive 

effect in, all pending and future lawsuits or other proceedings as to the Released Claims 

and other prohibitions set forth in this Order that are maintained by, or on behalf of, the 

Settlement Class Member or Settlement Collective Members or any other person subject 

to the provisions of this Order. 

14. In the event that the Settlement Agreement does not become final and effective in 

accordance with the terms of the Settlement Agreement, then this Order and the Final 

Judgment and all orders entered in connection herewith, including any order of 

conditional certification and/or appointing a class and/or collective representative or Class 

Counsel, shall be rendered null and void and be vacated. Moreover, the parties shall be 

returned to the status each occupied before they entered into the Settlement without 

prejudice to any legal argument that any of the parties to the Settlement Agreement might 

have asserted but for the Settlement Agreement. Additionally, any Settlement funds 

distributed under the terms of the Settlement shall be returned to Defendant. 

15. Without in any way affecting the finality of this Order and the Final Judgment, this Court 

hereby retains continuing jurisdiction as to all matters relating to: (a) the interpretation and 

enforcement of the terms of the Settlement; (b) Settlement administration matters; and (c) 

such post-Judgment matters as may be appropriate under Court rules or as set forth in the 

Settlement. 

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JUDGMENT 

16. The Court hereby enters judgment of the entire Action, with prejudice, for the reasons set 

forth above and in the Court’s April 12, 2019 order (ECF No. 52), the Court’s November 

6, 2019 order (ECF No. 64), and upon the terms set forth in the Settlement Agreement. 

17. This Action and the claims alleged therein are hereby ordered dismissed with prejudice. 

IT IS SO ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED. 

Date: November 21, 2019 

 ________________________________________ 

 The Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. 

 United States District Court Judge 

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