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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1981 Civil Rights

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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

REVEREND ANTHONY MAJORS, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

 v.

 CITY OF OAKLAND, et al.,

Defendants. /

No. C 05-00061 CRB

ORDER

By Order dated August 17, 2006, the Court adopted in its entirety the Report and

Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Maria Elena James regarding the civil contempt of

plaintiff Reverend Anthony Majors. Reverend Majors had not filed an opposition to the

Report and Recommendation, and the Court concluded that the Magistrate Judge’s findings

establish that Reverend Majors intentionally violated the settlement agreement, lied under

oath to the court, and willfully refused to comply with the court’s order that he pay

defendants approximately $60,000.00 to compensate them for their damages incurred as a

result of his violation of the settlement agreement. In accordance with the Report and

Recommendation, the Court ordered Reverend Majors to pay defendants $91,693.44 to

compensate them for their damages incurred as a result of his civil contempt.

After the Court gave Reverend Majors several extensions to pay the monies owed, and

under the threat of incarceration to coerce the payment of the monies owed, Reverend Majors

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paid $43,200.00. The Court has indicated that it will reduce the remaining amount--

$48,493.44-- to a judgment in favor of defendants.

Now pending before the Court is defendants’ request for additional attorneys’ fees and

costs to be included in the amount of the civil contempt compensatory damages judgment. 

The Court has reviewed the parties’ submissions, and concludes that defendants are entitled

to an additional award of attorneys’ fees in the amount of $8,000.00. These amounts do not

include any fees for preparing the supplemental declarations ordered by the Court. Nor do

they include fees incurred before the proceedings before this judge commenced in August

2006. The Court also has not allowed fees for insurance matters, attorney time spent on

obtaining hearing transcripts, researching collection issues, or discovering the status of the

release of funds, as well as for time entries for telephone calls that do not specify what

matters were discussed. The Court has also reduced the amount awarded to eliminate

redundant effort; Knox Ricksen LLP and Valerian, Patterson & Stratman represent

defendants also represented by the Shapiro Buchman firm.

Finally, the Court acknowledges that in responding to the Court’s orders that he pay

the amounts previously ordered, Reverend Majors disputed some of the Magistrate Judge’s

findings as to the amounts owed. Reverend Majors’ objections, however, were untimely; as

the Court noted in its Order adopting the Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge

James, Reverend Majors did not file any objection to the Report and Recommendation that

made those findings.

Accordingly, the Court will enter a judgment in favor of defendants Louatrice Dotson,

Richard Herbert, Simone Parker, Angie Green, C. Cedric Claiborne, Gloria Herbert, Mark

Allen, Al Austin, Ruth Barber, Steve Fountain, Katema Rainey-Jackson, and James Evans

and against Reverend Majors in the total amount of $56,493.44. This amount consists of

$48,493.44 still unpaid from the Court’s August 17 order directing Reverend Majors to pay 

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defendants $91,693.44 plus an additional $8000.00 in attorneys’ fees. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 21, 2007 

CHARLES R. BREYER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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