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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1451 E.R.I.S.A.

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES PENSION 

TRUST FUND, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

REINEGGER FRAME AND WHEEL, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-04815-DMR 

ORDER TO SUBMIT SUPPLEMENTAL 

BRIEFING IN SUPPORT OF MOTION 

FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT

Re: Dkt. No. 20

On May 19, 2016, Plaintiffs Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund and Automotive 

Industries Welfare Trust Fund and their Trustees (“Plaintiffs”) filed a motion for default judgment. 

[Docket No. 20.] Having reviewed that motion, the court determines that Plaintiffs’ accounting of 

its attorneys’ fees requires further support. While the Declaration of Anne M. Bevington [Docket 

No. 23] provides an employment background for Bevington and paralegal Julia Jellen, for whom

attorney’s fees are requested, the Declaration does not indicate how the hours were spent. Plaintiff 

requests ten (10) hours for Bevington’s work on this matter and thirty-five (35) hours for Paralegal 

Jellen’s work without further explanation. Bevington Decl. ¶¶ 14-15. 

Plaintiff must submit a more detailed accounting sufficient to support Plaintiff’s requested 

award of reasonable attorneys’ fees for litigating this action, with enough detail such that the court 

may determine whether the time spent was “excessive, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary.” 

Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 434 (1983); Bd. of Trs. of the Boilermaker Vacation Trust v. 

Skelly, Inc., 389 F. Supp. 2d 1222, 1226 (N.D. Cal. 2005) (analyzing the declarations regarding 

attorney time expended on motion for default judgment to determine a reasonable award of 

attorneys’ fees); see also N.D. Cal. Civ. L.R. 54-5. 

Plaintiffs shall submit additional briefing by 1 p.m. on June 10, 2016 to address the above 

deficiency in the motion for default judgment. Any opposition or statement of non-opposition is 

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due no later than June 17, 2016.

Immediately upon receipt of this Order, Plaintiffs shall serve Defendant with a copy 

of this Order and file a proof of service with the court. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 3, 2016

______________________________________

Donna M. Ryu

United States Magistrate Judge

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