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Parties Involved:
City of Woodland
Defendant
Brian Olson
Plaintiff

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[PROPOSED] ORDER FOR CONDITIONAL OLSON, et al. v. CITY OF WOODLAND 

CERTIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION Case No 2:16-cv-01477-JAM-AC 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

Case No. 2:16-cv-01477-JAM-AC

ORDER FOR CONDITIONAL 

CERTIFICATION OF FLSA 

COLLECTIVE ACTION AND 

NOTIFICATION TO AFFECTED 

INDIVIDUALS 

BRIAN OLSON, et al.,, on behalf of himself 

and all similarly situated individuals, 

 Plaintiffs, 

v. 

CITY OF WOODLAND, 

 

 Defendant. 

 

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Having considered the parties Stipulation for Conditional Certification of FLSA 

Collective Action and Notification to Affected Individuals and the proposed Notice attached 

thereto, and finding that good cause exists to issue and order pursuant to said stipulation, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 

1. This action satisfies the requirements for conditional certification as a "Collective 

Action" under the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The questions of law and fact common 

to the members of the class predominate over questions relevant only to individual members of 

the collective class and class adjudication is superior to any other method of adjudication for the 

fair and efficient adjudication of this matter. 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER FOR CONDITIONAL OLSON, et al. v. CITY OF WOODLAND 

CERTIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION Case No 2:16-cv-01477-JAM-AC 

2. For purposes of conditional certification, the FLSA Collective Action Class shall 

consist of all current and former employees of the Defendant who worked overtime and received 

cash in lieu of health benefits payments during the same workweek at any time since June 29, 

2013. 

3. This action is conditionally certified as a collective action under 29 USC § 216(b). 

Plaintiffs’ counsel, Mastagni Holstedt, APC, shall serve as counsel for the collective class. 

4. Notification of this action in the manner set forth in subsections (a) and (b) below 

is appropriate: 

 a. Notification shall be made by sending a “Notice of Action” in the form of 

the notice attached as Attachment B to the parties stipulation to all who worked overtime and 

received cash in lieu of health benefits payments during the same workweek at any time since 

June 29, 2013; 

 b. Defendant may administer the notification process, and will send notices 

by City email or certified mail with return receipt, to all putative class members within thirty 

(30) days from the date of this order. 

5. Any deadlines currently set in this case are hereby vacated, and all proceedings 

are stayed except the filing of consents to join and the issuance of this order granting conditional 

certification and authorizing notice pursuant to Hoffmann-La Roche v. Sperling, 493 U.S. 165 

(1989). 

6. The parties shall use informal discovery and early settlement negotiations in an 

attempt to resolve this dispute promptly. 

7. The parties are ordered to submit a joint status report to this Court detailing their 

efforts taken to resolve this dispute and the current status of the case within ninety (90) days 

from the date of this order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED: 

DATED: September 8, 2016 /s/ JOHN A MENDEZ

HONORABLE JOHN A. MENDEZ, 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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