IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION

DAWON A. WORDLAW, on behalf of herself 

and all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

v. 

ENTERPRISE LEASING COMPANY OF 

CHICAGO, LLC; ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS, 

INC.,

Defendants.

Case No. 20-cv-03200 

Hon. Manish S. Shah 

Hon. Magistrate Gabriel A. Fuentes 

ORDER GRANTING FINAL APPROVAL

OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL JUDGMENT

 The Court held a final approval hearing on May 4, 2023, and notice of the hearing and the 

Settlement were duly given in accordance with this Court’s February 2, 2023 Order [Dkt. 109]: 

(1) preliminarily approving the Settlement Agreement; (2) conditionally certifying the Settlement 

Class; (3) approving the Parties’ notice plan; and (4) setting the final approval hearing. Having 

considered all matters submitted at the final approval hearing and otherwise, and finding no just 

reason for delay in entry of this final order, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND 

DECREED:

1. Unless stated otherwise, all capitalized terms used in this Order that are not 

otherwise defined herein shall have the same meaning assigned to them as in the Parties’ 

Settlement Agreement. (Dkt. 106-1.) 

2. The Court has read and considered the papers filed in support of Plaintiff’s Motion

for Approval of Attorneys’ Fees, Expenses, and Service Award (“Fee and Expense Application”) 

[Dkt. 112] and Plaintiff’s Unopposed Motion for Final Approval of Class Action Settlement

Agreement [Dkt. 117], including all exhibits and supporting declarations thereto. The Parties have 

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provided the Court with sufficient information to determine whether to certify the Settlement Class 

and finally approve the Settlement Agreement.

3. The Court finds that it has jurisdiction over the subject matter of the Litigation and 

all claims raised therein, and has personal jurisdiction over all Parties to the Litigation, including 

all Settlement Class Members.

4. The Court preliminarily approved the Parties’ Settlement Agreement in its Minute 

Entry dated January 3, 2020, which is further memorialized in the Court’s February 2, 2023 

Preliminary Approval Order. Pursuant to Federal Rule 23(c)(2), the Court’s Preliminary Approval 

Order, and the Parties’ notice plan as detailed in the Settlement Agreement, the Settlement Class 

Members were notified of the terms of the proposed Settlement Agreement and of a final approval 

hearing to determine, inter alia, whether the terms and conditions of the Settlement Agreement 

are fair, reasonable, and adequate for the release of the Released Claims against the Released 

Parties.

5. The Court held a final approval hearing on May 4, 2023, at which time the Parties 

and all other interested persons were afforded the opportunity to be heard in support of or in 

opposition to the Settlement Agreement. Settlement Class Members were notified of their right to

retain an attorney and appear at the hearing in support of or in opposition to the proposed 

Settlement Agreement.

6. Pursuant to Federal Rule 23(a), (b)(3), and (e), and solely for purposes of 

settlement, the Court finally approves certification of the following Settlement Class:

All individuals who scanned their finger for timekeeping purposes 

while working for Enterprise Leasing Company of Chicago, LLC or 

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company – Midwest, LLC within the state 

of Illinois at any time between April 3, 2015 and the date of 

Preliminary Approval, and who (i) did not first execute a written 

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release of claims prior to the date of Preliminary Approval, or (ii) 

were not represented by the Unions during their employment. 

7. Excluded from the Settlement Class are all persons who were represented by the 

Unions and subject to a collective bargaining agreement while working for Enterprise Leasing 

Company of Chicago, LLC; all persons who signed a release of their claims against Defendants 

prior to the date of Preliminary Approval; all persons who validly elected to exclude themselves 

from the Settlement Class and the legal representatives, heirs, successors or assigns of any such 

excluded persons; the Court and staff to whom this case is assigned, and any member of the Court’s 

or staff’s immediate family.

8. The Class Members identified in Exhibit A attached to this Order timely submitted 

requests for exclusion from the Settlement Class. 

9. Based on the papers filed with the Court and the presentations made to the Court 

by the Parties and other interested persons at the final approval hearing, and pursuant to Federal 

Rule 23(e)(2), the Court now grants final approval of the Settlement Agreement and finds that the 

Settlement Agreement is fair, reasonable, adequate, and in the best interests of the Settlement Class

Members, because: Plaintiff and Class Counsel have adequately and capably represented the 

Settlement Class; the Settlement Agreement was negotiated at arm’s-length between the Parties 

and only reached following a mediation overseen by Hon. Magistrate Gabriel A. Fuentes; the 

monetary relief provided for the Settlement Class constitutes adequate compensation, taking into 

account the risks that both Parties faced with respect to the merits of the claims alleged and 

remedies requested, the costs, risks, and delay of trial and appeal, the hurdles involved in

maintaining a class action, and the expense and duration of further litigation, as well as the other 

factors listed in Federal Rule 23(e); and the Settlement Agreement treats Settlement Class 

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Members equitably relative to each other. Therefore, the Settlement Agreement is finally 

approved.

10. For settlement purposes only, the Court confirms the appointment of Plaintiff 

Dawon A. Wordlaw as Class Representative of the Settlement Class and the following counsel as 

Class Counsel: Myles McGuire, Evan M. Meyers, Timothy P. Kingsbury, and Brendan Duffner of 

McGuire Law, P.C.

11. With respect to the Settlement Class, the Court finds, for settlement purposes only, 

that the prerequisites to certification listed in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 are satisfied,

including numerosity, commonality, typicality, adequacy of representation, manageability of the 

Settlement Class for settlement purposes, predominance of common issues of law and fact over 

individualized issues, and superiority of settlement and certification of the Settlement Class

compared to alternative means of resolving the claims and disputes at issue in this case.

12. The Court finds that adequate notice was given to the Settlement Class Members 

pursuant to the terms of the Parties’ Settlement Agreement and the Preliminary Approval Order. 

The Court has further determined that the Notice given to the Settlement Class Members fully and 

accurately informed Settlement Class Members of all material elements of the Settlement

Agreement, constituted the best notice practicable under the circumstances, and fully satisfied the 

requirements of Federal Rule 23(c)(2) and 23(e)(1), applicable law, and the Due Process Clause

of the United States Constitution. The Court further finds that the Parties satisfied all notice 

requirements set forth in the Class Action Fairness Act 28 U.S.C. § 1715.

13. The Court orders the Parties to the Settlement Agreement and the Court-approved 

Settlement Administrator, Analytics Consulting, LLC, to continue to perform their obligations 

under the Settlement Agreement. The terms of the Settlement Agreement are deemed incorporated 

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herein as if explicitly stated and shall have the full force of an order of this Court. 

14. The Court enters judgment and dismisses the Litigation with prejudice, with each 

Party to bear its own fees and costs (except as otherwise provided herein and in the Settlement 

Agreement) as to Plaintiff’s and all Settlement Class Members’ claims against Defendants. The 

Court adjudges that the Released Claims and all of the claims described in the Settlement 

Agreement are released against the Released Parties. The Court adjudges that Plaintiff and all 

Settlement Class Members who have not opted out of the Settlement Class shall be deemed to 

have fully, finally, and forever released, relinquished, and discharged all Released Claims against 

the Released Parties.

15. The Court further adjudges that Plaintiff’s Released Claims as set forth in the 

Settlement Agreement are released against the Released Parties.

16. The Court further adjudges that, upon entry of this Order, the Settlement 

Agreement and the above-referenced release of the Released Claims will be binding on, and have 

preclusive effect in, all pending and future lawsuits or other proceedings maintained by or on 

behalf of Plaintiff and all other Settlement Class Members, who did not validly and timely opt out 

of the Settlement, and their respective affiliates, assigns, heirs, executors, administrators, 

successors, agents, and insurers, as set forth in the Settlement Agreement. The Released Parties

may file the Settlement Agreement and/or this Final Order and Judgment in any action or 

proceeding that may be brought against them in order to support a defense or counterclaim based 

on principles of res judicata, collateral estoppel, release, good faith settlement, judgment bar or 

reduction, or any other theory of claim preclusion or issue preclusion or similar defense or 

counterclaim.

17. Plaintiff and all Settlement Class Members, who did not validly and timely request 

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exclusion from the Settlement, are permanently barred and enjoined from asserting, commencing, 

prosecuting, or continuing any of the Released Claims or Plaintiff’s Released Claims set forth in 

the Settlement Agreement against any of the Released Parties.

18. The Court approves payment of attorneys’ fees and litigation expenses to Class 

Counsel in the amount of $173,036.27. This amount shall be paid from the Settlement Fund in 

accordance with the terms of the Settlement Agreement. The Court, having considered the 

materials submitted by Class Counsel in support of final approval of the Settlement and their Fee 

and Expense Application and in response to any timely filed objections thereto, finds the award of 

attorneys’ fees and litigation expenses appropriate and reasonable for the following reasons: (i)

the Court finds that the Settlement Agreement provides substantial benefits to the Settlement 

Class; (ii) the Court finds the payment fair and reasonable in light of the substantial work 

performed by Class Counsel; (iii) the Court concludes that the Settlement Agreement was 

negotiated at arm’s-length without collusion; and (iv) the Court notes that the Class Notice 

specifically and clearly advised the Settlement Class Members that Class Counsel would seek an 

award in the amount sought.

19. The Court approves payment of a Service Award in the amount of $12,500 for the 

Class Representative Dawon A. Wordlaw, and specifically finds such amount to be reasonable in 

light of the services performed by Plaintiff for the Settlement Class which include agreeing to 

publicly serve as the putative class representative, reviewing the pleadings filed on her behalf, 

participating in written discovery, producing documents to Defendants, being deposed twice, 

attending the settlement conference, reviewing the Settlement Agreement, and otherwise helping 

achieve the compensation made available to the Settlement Class. This amount shall be paid from 

the Settlement Fund in accordance with the terms of the Settlement Agreement.

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20. Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, the Settlement Administrator is directed to 

distribute all cy pres funds, including the value of any remaining uncashed checks following the 

second round of distribution of checks to the Settlement Class (if any), to the following cy pres 

recipient: The Chicago Bar Foundation.

21. Neither this Final Approval Order and Judgment, the Settlement Agreement, nor 

the payment of any consideration in connection with the Settlement Agreement shall be construed 

or used as an admission or concession by or against Defendants or any of the Released Parties of 

any fault, omission, liability, or wrongdoing, or of the validity of any of the Released Claims. This 

Final Approval Order and Judgment is not a finding as to the merits of any claims in the Litigation 

or a determination of any wrongdoing by Defendants or any of the Released Parties. The final 

approval of the Settlement Agreement does not constitute any position, opinion, or determination 

of this Court as to the merits of the claims or defenses of the Parties or the Settlement Class 

Members.

22. No objections to the Settlement Agreement were filed or otherwise submitted. Any

outstanding objections to the Settlement Agreement are overruled and denied in all respects. The 

Court finds that no reason exists for delay in entering judgment. Accordingly, the Clerk is directed 

to enter this Order Granting Final Approval of Class Action Settlement Agreement and Final

Judgment.

23. Without affecting the finality of this Final Judgment, the Court retains jurisdiction 

as to all matters related to the administration, consummation, enforcement, and interpretation of 

the Settlement Agreement and this Final Order and Judgment, and for any other necessary purpose.

24. The Parties, without further approval from the Court, are permitted to agree to and 

adopt such amendments, modifications, and expansions of the Settlement Agreement and its 

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attendant documents (including all exhibits to the Settlement Agreement) so long as they are 

consistent in all material respects with the Final Approval Order and Judgment and do not limit 

the rights of the Settlement Class Members.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

ENTERED: _________________ ________________________ 

Hon. Manish S. Shah 

U.S. District Court Judge 

May 8, 2023

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Exhibit A

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1. Shelly V. York

2. Eugene C. Lorch

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