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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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Stipulation Regarding Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses

MICHAEL W. BIEN – 096891

JANE E. KAHN – 112239

ERNEST GALVAN – 196065

THOMAS NOLAN – 169692

LISA ELLS – 243657

AARON J. FISCHER – 247391

MARGOT MENDELSON – 268583

KRISTA STONE-MANISTA – 269083

ROSEN BIEN

GALVAN & GRUNFELD LLP

315 Montgomery Street, Tenth Floor

San Francisco, California 94104-1823

Telephone: (415) 433-6830

DONALD SPECTER – 083925

STEVEN FAMA – 099641

PRISON LAW OFFICE

1917 Fifth Street

Berkeley, California 94710-1916

Telephone: (510) 280-2621

CLAUDIA CENTER – 158255

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN 

CALIFORNIA, INC.

39 Drumm Street

San Francisco, California 94111-4805

Telephone: (415) 621-2493

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RALPH COLEMAN, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:90-CV-00520-KJM-DAD

STIPULATION REGARDING 

ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND EXPENSES

ARISING FROM HECKER 

LITIGATION

Judge: Hon. Dale Drozd

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Stipulation Regarding Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses

On March 2, 2015, the Court entered an Order for Final Approval of Settlement 

Agreement entered jointly in the above-captioned matter (Docket No. 5284) and in Hecker 

v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, No. 05-CV-2441 KJM-DAD 

(Docket No. 147). The Settlement Agreement requires that the parties resolve any claims 

for attorneys’ fees and costs arising from the Hecker litigation as part of the periodic fees 

process in Coleman. (Docket No. 5284-1 at 12 ¶ 30). Pursuant to this provision of the 

Settlement Agreement, the parties have met and conferred and have resolved all 

outstanding issues regarding attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in Hecker, No. 05-CV2441.

Plaintiffs were represented by two firms in the Hecker matter, the Legal Aid Society 

of San Francisco and Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP. Over a period of 12 years, the 

two firms expended over 6,200 hours on the matter. See Exhibit A, Time and Costs 

Summaries. At the 2014 market rates applicable to actions under the Americans with 

Disabilities Act, these hours, after reductions for reasonable billing judgment, and with the 

addition of expenses, would result in a fees and costs award of approximately $2.5 million. 

Exhibit A. As part of the settlement, however, Plaintiffs agreed to seek compensation only 

within the rates cap of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, under which the total amounts to 

$1.315 million. 

The parties have met and conferred regarding further reductions in the attorneys’ 

fees. The parties have now agreed to resolve all issues regarding the Hecker fees and costs 

claims via payment by Defendants’ to Plaintiffs’ counsel in the amount of $1,165,426.23, 

in satisfaction of all claims for attorneys’ fees and costs arising from the Hecker litigation. 

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Stipulation Regarding Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses

THEREFORE, THE PARTIES HEREBY STIPULATE AND AGREE that 

$1,165,426.23 plus interest is due and collectable as of sixty (60) days from the date of 

entry of this Order. Interest on these fees and costs will run from December 6, 2014 (31 

days after Defendants’ receipt of Plaintiffs’ statement), accruing at the rate provided by 28 

U.S.C. § 1961.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: May 26, 2015 /s/ Elise Owens Thorn as authorized on 5/21/15

Elise Owens Thorn

Deputy Attorney General

Attorneys for Defendants

DATED: May 26, 2015 /s/ Ernest Galvan

Ernest Galvan

ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & GRUNFELD, LLP

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 11, 2015

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