Final Report Hearing
TENTATIVE RULINGS
DEPT. CX103 (657-622-5303)
Judge David A. Hoffer June 01, 2026
These are the Court’s tentative rulings. They may become orders if the parties do not appear at the hearing. The Court also might make a different order at the hearing. (Lewis v. Fletcher Jones Motor Cars, Inc. (2012) 205 Cal.App.4th 436, 442, fn. 1.)
If a party intends to submit on the Court’s tentative ruling, please call the Court Clerk to inform the court. If both parties submit, the tentative ruling will then become the order of the Court.
APPEARANCES: Department CX103 conducts non-evidentiary proceedings, such as law and motion, remotely by Zoom videoconference. All counsel and self-represented parties appearing for such hearings should check-in online through the Court's civil video appearance website at https://www.occourts.org/media-relations/civil.html prior to the commencement of their hearing. Once the online check-in is completed, participants will be prompted to join the courtroom’s Zoom hearing session. Check-in instructions and an instructional video are available on the court’s website.
All remote video participants shall comply with the Court’s “Appearance Procedures and Information--Civil Unlimited and Complex” and “Guidelines for Remote Appearances” also posted online at https://www.occourts.org/media-relations/aci.html. A party choosing to appear in person can do so by appearing in the courtroom on the date/time of the hearing.
Court Reporters: Parties must provide their own remote court reporters (unless they have a fee waiver). Parties must comply with the Court’s policy on the use of privately retained court reporters which can be found at:
• Civil Court Reporter Pooling; and • Court Reporter Interpreter Services
THE PARTIES ARE PROHIBITED BY RULE OF COURT AND LOCAL RULE FROM PHOTOGRAPHING, FILMING, RECORDING, OR BROADCASTING THIS COURT SESSION.
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1 JCCP 5081 The tentative ruling is to continue the Final Report Hearing to Finance of America November 23, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. to clarify that the amounts Wage and Hour Cases distributed by the administrator are consistent with the court’s April 25, 2025 approval order and confirm that the amount of the uncashed checks after the check-cashing deadline has been delivered to the State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Fund in the names of the applicable payees, that the
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Administrator’s work is complete, and that the court’s file thus may be closed. All supporting papers must be filed at least 16 days before the Final Report Hearing date.
On April 25, 2025, the court approved the $160,000.00 PAGA-only settlement, and the following distributions: • $53,333.33 to plaintiff’s counsel for plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees; • $1,500.00 to plaintiff’s counsel for plaintiff’s attorney costs; • $5,000.00 to plaintiff as an enhancement award; • $3,500.00 to the Administrator for administration fees; • $72,500.00 to the LWDA as its share of PAGA penalties; and • $24,166.67 to the aggrieved employees for their share of PAGA penalties.
However, the administrator’s declaration states that $3,000.00 of the PAGA penalties that were payable to the LWDA and $1,000.00 of the PAGA penalties that were payable to the aggrieved employees were instead distributed to the settlement administrator, giving the administrator $7,500.00 instead of the $3,500.00 approved by the court. The parties and the administrator must provide an explanation for this re- allocation of settlement funds without court approval.
The court VACATES the December 8, 2025 OSC re: monetary sanctions against plaintiff’s counsel for failure to file a final accounting report, as previously ordered.
Plaintiff is ordered to give notice of this ruling to Defendant.
2 30-2020-01169774 The settlement administrator has confirmed that the Olsen vs. The City of distribution of the settlement funds has been made in Stanton accordance with the settlement terms that were approved by the court and that the amount of the uncashed checks from the settlement must be transmitted to the cy pres recipient, Mary’s Kitchen. As Plaintiffs have shown that the administration of this settlement is complete, the court’s file is now closed.
Plaintiffs are ordered to give notice of this ruling to Defendant.