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Parties Involved:
Delfino Green & Green
Counter-defendant
Workers Compensation Solutions, LLC
Counter-claimant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DELFINO GREEN & GREEN,

Plaintiff,

v.

WORKERS COMPENSATION 

SOLUTIONS, LLC,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-02302-HSG 

ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION 

AND MOTION TO DISMISS

Re: Dkt. Nos. 19, 38

Pending before the Court is Plaintiff and Counter-Defendant Delfino Green & Green’s 

motion to dismiss the first four causes of action in Defendant and Counter-Plaintiff Workers 

Compensation Solutions’ counter-claim. Dkt. No. 19 (“Mot.”). On September 11, 2015, the 

parties stipulated to dismissal of Defendant’s first three causes of action in its counter-claim. Dkt. 

No. 38. The Court GRANTS the parties’ stipulation and DISMISSES Defendant’s causes of 

action for (1) “Declaratory Relief: Attorney Fee Agreement—Void”; (2) “Declaratory Relief: 

Attorney Fee Agreement Does not Provide for Interest”; (3) “Declaratory Relief: Attorney Fee 

Agreement Does not Provide Recovery on Reimbursed Fees or Costs.”

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The Court further finds that, because Defendant’s fourth cause of action in its counterclaim is redundant of certain of its affirmative defenses, see Dkt. No. 30 at 7, it is appropriate to 

strike that cause of action as well. A number of district courts have reached the same result. See

Stickrath v. Globalstar, Inc., No. 07-cv-01941-TEH, 2008 WL 2050990, at *3 (N.D. Cal. May 13, 

2008) (collecting cases). The counter-claim “serve[s] no useful purpose” and is “entirely 

superfluous.” Id. at *5, 7 (internal quotation marks omitted). As a result, the Court GRANTS 

Plaintiff’s motion to dismiss and STRIKES Defendant’s fourth cause of action for “Declaratory 

Relief: November 14, 2014 Agreement—Void” pursuant to Rule 12(f).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

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HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Judge

9/11/2015

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