1 MELMED LAW GROUP P.C. Jonathan Melmed (SBN 290218) 2 [email protected] Meghan Higday (SBN 334626) 3 [email protected] 1801 Century Park East, Suite 850 4 Los Angeles, California 90067 Phone: (310) 824-3828 5 Fax: (310) 862-6851 6 Attorneys for Plaintiff, the Putative Class, and the Aggrieved Employees 7 SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP 8 GREG S. LABATE, (SBN 149918) [email protected] 9 650 Town Center Drive, 10th Floor Costa Mesa, California 92626 10 Telephone: 714.513.5100 Facsimile: 714.513.5130 11 SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP 12 KEAHN N. MORRIS, (SBN 260058) [email protected] 13 GAL GRESSEL (Cal. Bar No. 286312) [email protected] 14 NINA MONTAZERI, (SBN 329440) [email protected] 15 Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor San Francisco, California 94111-4109 16 Telephone: 415.434.9100 Facsimile: 415.434.3947 17 Attorneys for Defendant ARBORWORKS, LLC 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 19 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 20 21 RAMON TOVAR GONZALEZ, an Case No.: 1:22-cv-01030-KES-SKO individual, on behalf of himself, and on behalf 22 of all others similarly situated, ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION TO 23 Plaintiff, REMAND ACTION TO STATE COURT 24 v. 25 ARBORWORKS, LLC, a California Limited 26 Liability Company; and DOES 1 TO 50, 27 Defendants. 1 ORDER 2 On March 3, 2025, the parties filed a joint stipulation to remand this action to state court in 3 || light of the parties’ agreement to settle this action. Doc. 30. Pursuant to the stipulation, and good 4 || cause appearing, this action is remanded to the Madera County Superior Court (Case No. 5 |} MCV087349). 6 In the event the parties’ settlement is not approved by the Madera County Superior Court, 7 || this stipulation and order will be void ab initio. See Dickerson v. Aera Energy, LLC, Case No. 8 || 1:21-CV-01384-JLT-BAK,

(E.D. Cal. Sept. 13, 2022) (granting parties’ 9 || stipulation to remand case to state court in light of parties’ settlement agreement and providing 10 || that stipulation and order would be void ab initio if settlement was not approved); see also Dunn 11 || v. SHC Servs., Inc., 1:21-cv-00744-NONE-SAB,

(Nov. 18, 2021) (same). 12 The Clerk of Court is directed to mail a copy of this order to the Madera County Superior 13 |} Court and close this case. 14 15 || Tr IS SO ORDERED. _ Dated: _ March 6, 2025 4~ } | 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -2- Case No. 1:23-cv-01030-KES-SKO SMRH4924-0491-2905.1 ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION TO REMAND TO STATE COURT WITHOUT