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Parties Involved:
Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
Defendant
Rick D. Fox
Plaintiff
Trans Union, LLC
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RICK D. FOX,

Plaintiff,

v.

EXPERIAN INFORMATION 

SOLUTIONS, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:22-cv-01197-ADA-SAB

ORDER RE NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT, 

ORDERING DISPOSITIONAL DOCUMENTS, 

AND ADVISING PARTIES OF COURT’S 

PRACTICE CONCERNING RETENTION OF 

JURISDICTION

(ECF No. 36)

DEADLINE: JULY 12, 2023

Plaintiff initiated this action on September 21, 2022. (ECF No. 1.) On June 21, 2023, 

Plaintiff filed a notice of settlement indicating that Plaintiff has settled the matter as to Defendant 

Experian Information Solutions, Inc., only. (ECF No. 36.) The filing indicates that the parties 

are in the process of finalizing the terms and performance attendant to that resolution; that the 

parties anticipate completing that performance within the next forty-five (45) days and submitting 

to the Court the necessary dismissal papers; in the interim, the parties ask that the Court vacate all 

deadlines in this matter, as to Defendant Trans Union, LLC only; and Plaintiff further requests 

that the Court retain jurisdiction for any matters related to completing and/or enforcing the 

settlement. 

As the filing contains no specific reason for requiring forty-five (45) days to dismiss the 

Defendant aside from completing performance under the settlement agreement, the Court shall 

require Plaintiff to file dispositional documents within twenty-one (21) days, consistent with the 

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Local Rule. See L.R. 160(b) (“[T]he Court shall fix a date upon which the documents disposing 

of the action or motion must be filed, which date shall not be more than twenty-one (21) days 

from the date of said notification, absent good cause.”). At that point, if Plaintiff requires 

additional time to file dispositional documents as to the Defendant, Plaintiff may request an 

extension of the deadline upon a demonstration of specific good cause. However, in this regard,

the parties are advised that once the terms of a settlement agreement are finalized and the 

settlement agreement is signed by the parties, dismissal is not dependent on performance but 

rather settlement of the action. Further this Court generally declines generic requests to retain 

jurisdiction following dismissal, absent a specific request and showing of good cause, and such 

retention requires a subsequent order of approval from the Court retaining jurisdiction. See

Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 511 U.S. 375, 378 (1994) (“Neither the Rule nor any 

provision of law provides for jurisdiction of the court over disputes arising out of an agreement 

that produces the stipulation . . . . [e]nforcement of the settlement agreement, however, whether 

through award of damages or decree of specific performance, is more than just a continuation or 

renewal of the dismissed suit, and hence requires its own basis for jurisdiction.”).

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff shall file dispositional documents 

pertaining to Defendant Experian Information Solutions, Inc., on or before July 12, 2023. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 22, 2023 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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