Operating Engineers Health And Welfare Trust Fund v. Pacific Coast Iron, Inc.
Operating Engineers Health And Welfare Trust Fund v. Pacific Coast Iron, Inc.
Trial Court Opinion
1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 4 OPERATING ENGINEERS HEALTH Case No. 3:23-cv-05140-JD AND WELFARE TRUST FUND, et al., ° Plaintiffs, ORDER RE REPORT AND 6 y. RECOMMENDATION
PACIFIC COAST IRON, INC., et al., 8 Defendants. ? In this ERISA action, Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero filed a report recommending that 10 plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment, Dkt. No. 13, be granted in part and denied in part. Dkt. No. 28. No objections have been filed in response to this report, and the time to file objections has expired. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b). Defendants have failed to appear in this action. 13 The report concludes that defendant Pacific Coast Iron, Inc. was required to make timely fringe benefit contributions to plaintiff funds under collective bargaining and trust agreements, 15 which it did not do. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 55(b)(2) and the factors set forth in 16 Eitel vy. McCool,
782 F.2d 1470, 1471-72(9th Cir. 1986), default judgment is warranted in favor of plaintiffs as to Pacific Coast Iron. Plaintiffs did not establish that Adam Murray is individually |! jiable. 19 After an independent review, the Court adopts the report and recommendation. Default 20 judgment is denied with respect to Murray. For Pacific Coast Iron, plaintiffs are awarded an 21 amount of $40,963.23 in damages, which includes $11,821.10 in unpaid contributions, $18,257.64 22 in liquidated damages, $727.02 interest on late unpaid contributions, $9,408.50 in fees, and 23 $748.97 in costs. 24 IT IS SO ORDERED. 25 Dated: August 9, 2024 26 27 JAMES PONATO 98 United Ptates District Judge
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