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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANGELA CRUZ, MARIA MADRIGAL, 

LOURDES BAIZ, and CHRISTIE 

GOODMAN, individually, residing in 

California,

Plaintiffs,

 vs.

MM 879, INC., a corporation; BARRETT 

BUSINESS SERVICES, INC., a corporation,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:15-cv-01563-TLN-EPG

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’

MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF 

CLASS NOTICE PLAN

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This matter is before the Court on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Approval of Class Notice Plan. 

(ECF No. 212.) The Court, having considered the documents filed in support of and in 

opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion as well as all arguments of counsel thereon, hereby GRANTS 

the Motion and adopts the following Notice Plan as the best notice practicable under the 

circumstances as required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(c).

I. LETTER NOTICE

Letter Notice will be sent by first class mail to all class members for whom Defendants

provide contact information. The Class Notice Administrator will cross-reference all contact 

information for class members against change of address databases and initiate a good-faith 

search for the current address. If a different address than the one provided by Defendants is 

found, the Class Notice Administrator shall mail the Notice to both the address provided by 

Defendants and the new address. Letter Notice will disseminate within 21 days of entry of this 

Order. 

The Letter Notice and Exclusion Form approved shall be in the form attached as Exhibit 

1 to the Declaration of Brady Briggs, submitted concurrently with and in support of Plaintiffs’ 

Motion. 

II. OPT-OUT PERIOD

Class members will be given sixty (60) days from the initial mailing of the Class Notices 

to decide whether to opt out. The Class Notice Administrator will include the date certain by 

which to opt out in the Class Notice at the time of mailing.

III. DEADLINES FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF NOTICE

The Court hereby adopts Plaintiffs’ proposed schedule for the dissemination of class 

notice. Relevant dates pertaining to the dissemination of notice are as follows:

Defendants to provide a list of names and last 

known mailing addresses and telephone 

numbers of class members to Class Counsel 

and Notice Administrator

14 days following entry of this Order

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Notice Administrator to mail all notices to 

class members 

21 days following entry of this Order

Deadline for class members to return 

exclusion forms to the Notice Administrator 

(“Opt-Out Deadline”)

60 days after mailing of Class Notice

Notice Administrator to provide list of all 

class members who did not opt out to class 

counsel

75 days after mailing of Class Notice

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: March 22, 2023

Troy L. Nunley

United States District Judge

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