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Parties Involved:
Board of Trustees for the Laborers Pension Trust Fund for Northern California
Plaintiff
Doratriz P. Cervantez
Cross-claimant
Christine Largaespada
Cross-defendant
Jose Moreno
Plaintiff
Larry Totten
Plaintiff

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AMENDED [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR DISCHARGE OF STAKEHOLDER IN INTERPLEADER ACTION AND FOR 

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION [CASE NO. C-04-5441 SBA]

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Susan J. Olson, SBN 152467

Andrea J. Kirkpatrick, SBN 229363

STANTON, KAY & WATSON, LLP

101 New Montgomery Street, 5th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105-3612

Telephone: 415-512-3501

Facsimile: 415-512-3515

Attorneys for Plaintiff

LABORERS PENSION TRUST FUND 

FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LARRY TOTTEN as CHAIRMAN and JOSE 

MORENO as CO-CHAIRMAN of the BOARD 

OF TRUSTEES FOR THE LABORERS 

PENSION TRUST FUND FOR NORTHERN 

CALIFORNIA,

Plaintiff,

v.

DORATRIZ P. CERVANTEZ, an individual, 

CHRISTINE LARGAESPADA, an individual, and 

DOES 1-50, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. C-04-5441 SBA 

AMENDED ORDER FOR DISCHARGE OF 

STAKEHOLDER IN INTERPLEADER 

ACTION AND FOR PRELIMINARY 

INJUNCTION 

DATE: None

TIME; None

CTRM.:. Ctrm. 3, 3rd Floor

LOCATION: Oakland

Based upon the papers previously, including, the motion, memorandum of points and 

authorities, Declaration of Andrea J. Kirkpatrick and attachments thereto and the papers filed 

herewith, including Plaintiffs’ Ex Parte Motion to Amend Order for Discharge of Stakeholder in 

Interpleader Action and for Preliminary Injunction and the Declaration of Andrea J. Kirkpatrick in 

support thereof, this Court finds as follows:

1. Plaintiffs’ interpleader is proper because multiple claimants have made adverse 

claims to the specific sum of money ($47,472.00), the Laborers Pension Trust Fund for Northern 

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California (hereinafter “Fund”) is not, in any way, at fault for the present controversy regarding the

interplead funds and the Fund claims no interest in the $47,472.00. Fed. R. Civ. Pro. 22; Bank of 

America Nat’l. Trust & Sav. Ass’n. v. Mamakos, 509 F.2d 1217 (9th Cir. 1975); 

2. Plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction, enjoining all actual and potential 

claimants from the further assertion of claims relating to the $47,472.00 deposited with the court is 

appropriate because the Fund is facing conflicting demands to the interplead funds and has no 

adequate remedy at law. United States v. Major Oil Corp., 583 F.2d.1152, 1157-58 (10th Cir. 

1978); and 

3. The Fund is a disinterested stakeholder that has been forced to bear the expense of 

guarding against multiple actions stemming from adverse and conflicting claims to the $47,472.00. 

Kirkpatrick Decl. at ¶ 8. Therefore, in the interest of fairness and equity, the Fund should be 

awarded the attorneys’ fees and costs that it has incurred in guarding against the adverse claims to 

the $47,472.00. Rhoades v. Casey, 196 F.3d 592, 603 (5th Cir. 1999); Schirmer Stevedoring Co. v. 

Seaboard Stevedoring Corp., 306 F.2d. 188, 194-95 (9th Cir. 1962); Gelfgren v. Republic Nat’l. Life 

Ins. Co., 680 F.2d. 79,81 (9th Cir. 1982). 

Based on the rational set forth above and good cause showing, it is hereby ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiffs are discharged from further liability to any actual and potential claimants 

with respect to the amount of $47,472.00 that was deposited by Plaintiff;

2. Plaintiffs are discharged and relieved of further responsibility in the above-entitled 

action; 

3. All actual and potential claimants are permanently enjoined from asserting further 

claims to the monies deposited by Plaintiffs with the Court on February 9, 2005; and 

4. Plaintiffs are awarded the costs and fees incurred between November of 2004 and 

June of 2005 in connection with these proceedings in the amount of $6,877.81 and that such fees and 

costs shall be taken out of the $47,472.00 deposited by Plaintiffs with the court. 

5. Plaintiffs are awarded the attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in connection with these 

proceedings between July 1, 2005 and September 21, 2005, in the amount of $7,614.66 and that such 

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fees and costs shall be taken out of the $47,472.00 deposited by Plaintiffs with the court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: 10/27/05 _____________________________________

The Honorable Saundra B. Armstrong

United States District Judge

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