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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1132 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Benefits

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KEN WALTERS, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

JERRY DEAN FREY, individually and doing

business as J.D. FREY EXCAVATING,

Defendant.

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No. C-05-0035 PJH (EMC)

ORDER RE SUPPLEMENTAL

BRIEFING AND EVIDENCE FOR

PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR DEFAULT

JUDGMENT

(Docket No. 16)

The Court has reviewed the supplemental brief and evidence filed by Plaintiffs on August 3,

2005. Having reviewed those documents, the Court hereby orders Plaintiffs to provide additional

briefing and/or evidence. 

First, Plaintiffs should provide the Court with the Master Agreement(s) that covers the years

1999 through 2001. The Master Agreement provided by Plaintiffs, which states that employers are

to make certain contributions to the trust funds and will be bound by all the terms and conditions of

each Trust Agreement, covers the years 2002 to 2006, which are not relevant to this litigation. See

Supp. McBride Decl., Ex. B (Master Agreement). 

Second, Plaintiffs should explain why the appropriate contribution rate is $10.19 per hour. 

See McBride Decl., Ex. A (project agreements). More specifically, the trust funds at issue appear to

be the health and welfare fund, the pension fund, the pensioned health and welfare fund, and the

vacation and holiday fund. The hourly contribution rates for those respective funds, effective

November 1, 2000, were as follows: $4.10; $3.25; $0.74; and $1.80. This would yield a total of
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$9.89 per hour, not $10.19. While, under the project agreement, an additional $0.30 per hour should

be paid in supplemental dues, it is not clear why the supplemental dues should be considered part of

the trust contributions.

Plaintiffs should file this supplemental briefing and/or evidence within a week of the filing

date of this order.

Plaintiffs should serve a copy of this order on Mr. Frey within three days of the filing of

this order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 8, 2005

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 EDWARD M. CHEN

United States Magistrate Judge