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Parties Involved:
Artin Adamian
Plaintiff
Rose Feaver
Plaintiff
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
Defendant
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Defendant
Myungshun Shim
Plaintiff

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROSE FEAVER, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, 

INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-00890-EMC 

ORDER RE SUPPLEMENTAL 

BRIEFING

Docket No. 57

On May 9, 2016, Plaintiffs Rose Feaver, Artin Adamian, and Myungshun Shim and 

Defendants Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (collectively, 

Kaiser) filed a joint motion for approval of a settlement agreement and dismissal of lawsuit. 

Docket No. 57.

Some courts have suggested that in approving a Fair Labor Standards Act settlement, the 

Court should review the fairness of the settlement, including “whether the settlement is a fair and 

reasonable resolution of a bona fide dispute.” Yue Zhou v. Wang’s Rest., No. C 05-279 PVT, 2006 

U.S. Dist. LEXIS 84397, at *5 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 9, 2006). Here, the parties have not provided any 

information that will allow the court to make this determination, such as the value of the claim for 

each of the Plaintiffs. Compare with id. at *9 (finding $7,000 settlement reasonable where the 

plaintiff had viable claims for up to $9,731.34, plus taxes); Lee v. Timberland Co., Case No. C 07-

2367 JF, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108098, at *5-6 (N.D. Cal. June 19, 2008) (acknowledging 

difficulty of providing precisely how many overtime hours were worked by the fourteen plaintiffs, 

and finding that the proposed award of 70% of the gross claim alleged by each of the plaintiff was 

a reasonable compromise). The parties must therefore file information on the estimated value of 

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each of the claims to be settled and how this value was calculated by Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 

12:00 P.M. This supplemental briefing may be filed through an administrative motion to file 

under seal.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 13, 2016

______________________________________

EDWARD M. CHEN

United States District Judge

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