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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Labor/Mgmnt. Relations

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LUIS VALDEZ, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

THE NEIL JONES FOOD COMPANY,

et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:13-cv-00519-SAB

ORDER RE STIPULATION AND JOINT 

REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION OF CLASS 

NOTICE RE WITHHOLDING ON INDIVIDUAL 

SETTLEMENT PAYMENTS

(ECF No. 77)

The parties, through counsel, hereby stipulate and jointly request as follows:

WHEREAS by Order dated April 8, 2016, the Court granted Plaintiffs’ Motion for 

Preliminary Approval of Class Action Settlement.

WHEREAS, the Court’s April 8, 2016 Order approved the notice to class members that 

was attached as Exhibit B to the parties’ Third Revised Stipulation of Settlement and also 

appointed CPT Group as the settlement administrator.

WHEREAS the Third Revised Stipulation of Settlement provides, in section D.3., for the 

settlement administrator to mail forms W4 to class members along with the notice to class 

members.

WHEREAS the notice approved by the Court states the following on page 6 under the 

heading “Taxation of Individual Settlement Payments”: “The Settlement Administrator will 

calculate your withholding based on the last W4 form you submitted to Neil Jones. And if you do 

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not have a W4 form on file with Neil Jones, your withholding will be at the highest rate. If you 

are uncertain about whether you have a W4 form on file with Neil Jones, or you wish to change 

your withholding rate, you can submit a W4 form to the Settlement Administrator. A copy of W4 

form is enclosed with this Notice.” 

WHEREAS CPT Group has informed the parties that it does not typically utilize 

individual class members’ W4 forms when calculating the withholding on individual settlement 

payments, and that it is more efficient and less time-consuming for all class members’ payments 

to be subject to withholding at the supplemental rate.

AND WHEREAS THE PARTIES wish to modify the terms of their settlement and the 

notice to class members to provide for the more efficient method of calculating the withholding 

on individual settlement payments that has been suggested by CPT Group.

NOW THEREFORE, the parties stipulate and jointly request that the Court approve the 

following modifications of the terms of their settlement and the notice to class members:

1. CPT Group will not include send W4 forms to class members.

2. The notice to class members will be revised to delete the following language that 

appears under the heading “Taxation of Individual Settlement Payments”: “The Settlement 

Administrator will calculate your withholding based on the last W4 form you submitted to Neil 

Jones. And if you do not have a W4 form on file with Neil Jones, your withholding will be at the 

highest rate. If you are uncertain about whether you have a W4 form on file with Neil Jones, or 

you wish to change your withholding rate, you can submit a W4 form to the Settlement 

Administrator. A copy of W4 form is enclosed with this Notice.” 

3. Under the heading “Taxation of Individual Settlement Payments” the notice to 

class members will include the following language in the place of the language being deleted: 

“The Settlement Administrator will calculate your withholding based on the supplemental rate.” 

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: April 22, 2016 WILSON TRIAL GROUP

BY: /S/ DENNIS P. WILSON 

DENNIS P. WILSON

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Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

LUIS VALDEZ, CAROLINA 

MARTINEZ and 

THE SETTLEMENT CLASS

Dated: April 22, 2016 FOSTER EMPLOYMENT LAW

BY: /S/ MICHAEL E. WILBUR

MICHAEL E. WILBUR

Attorney for Defendant

THE NEIL JONES FOOD 

COMPANY

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 25, 2016 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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