Order of Court’s Approval Of Hunegs, Stone, LeNeave, Kvas & Thornton, P.A. 

Minors’ Settlement Agreements 1000 Second Ave, Suite 3310 

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HONORABLE RONALD B. LEIGHTON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE

VALERIE AMOR, an individual; BRIAN

ANDERSON, an individual; MARY

ANDERSON, an individual; MIKE

ANDERSON, an individual; JANELLE

DeLEON, an individual; DANI DeLEON, a

minor child; IVEE DeLEON, a minor child;

KATIE OSBORN, an individual; AMANDA

POWELL, a minor child; and LUCAS 

POWELL, a minor child, 

Plaintiffs,

v.

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER

CORPORATION, a/k/a AMTRAK, a

Washington, D.C. Corporation 

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NO. C06-5339RBL

ORDER 

OF APPROVAL OF MINOR 

SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS

PURSUANT TO CR AND LR 17(c)

A Petition for Approval of Minor Settlement Agreements pursuant to CR and Local Rule

17(c) has been filed on behalf of four of the above-named Plaintiffs who are minors. The Court

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finds that the facts set forth therein give the court jurisdiction over the subject matter and the parties

for purposes of determining the acceptability of the settlements of these minor claims agreed upon

as provided in the petition and that it is in the best interests of the minor petitioners for this Court to

make such determinations without incurring the additional costs associated with the appointment of

guardian ad litems for them.

The Court having considered the Plaintiffs’ Petition For Order Of Court Approval Of Minor

Settlement Agreements, the Declaration of George A. Thornton and its attached medical records,

and the records and files herein, and being fully advised in the premises, NOW THEREFORE,

THE COURT ORDERS:

I. The minors’ settlement agreements regarding their claims in this action are hereby approved

as following:

DANIELLE DELEON $15,000.00 

IVEE DELEON $ 3,000.00

AMANDA POWELL $25,000.00

LUCAS POWELL $ 1,300.00

II. Janelle DeLeon may execute the releases of the claims on behalf of her two daughters,

Danielle (“Dani”) DeLeon and Ivee DeLeon;

III. Shelina R. Bahr may execute the releases of the claims on behalf of her two children,

Amanda Powell and Lucas Powell;

IV: The net settlement amounts will be placed at a federally-insured financial institution for

deposit into a blocked account, interest-bearing certificate of deposit account with renewal terms

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twelve to thirteen months. Petitioners’ counsel will provide the Court with a receipt from the

financial institution upon doing so within thirty (30) days of the Court’s approval of disbursements.

VI. Other: _______________________________________________________________.

DATED and signed in open Court this 21st

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 day of December, 2006.

RONALD B. LEIGHTON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Presented by:

Hunegs, Stone, LeNeave, Kvas & Thornton, P.A.

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George A. Thornton, WSB# 8198

Of Attorneys for Minor Plaintiffs/Petitioners

Reviewed and Approved:

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Tim Wackerbarth, WSB #13673

Attorney for Defendant

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