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11 CRYSTAL MITCHELL, Case No. 1:23-cv-00060 JLT EPG 12 Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING IN FULL THE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 13 v. RECOMMENDING (1) GRANTING 14 PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL UNITED HEALTH CENTERS OF THE NOTICE AND (2) GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S 15 SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, a Colorado MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION corporation, 16 (Docs. 46, 54, 56) Defendant. 17 18 Crystal Mitchell is a former hourly, non-exempt employee of Defendant United Health 19 Centers of the San Joaquin Valley (UHSJ) who worked as a staff accountant at Defendant’s 20 facility. On March 26, 2025, the assigned magistrate judge issued Findings and 21 Recommendations recommending Plaintiff’s request for judicial notice and motion for class 22 certification both be granted. (Doc. 56.) Defendant filed objections on April 24, 2025. (Doc. 57.) 23 Plaintiff replied to the objections on May 2, 2025. (Doc. 58.) 24 According to

(b)(1), this Court performed a de novo review of the action. 25 Having carefully reviewed the matter, including the objections, which essentially reiterate 26 arguments carefully considered and rejected by the magistrate judge1, and the reply, the Court 27 1 In its original opposition to the motion for class certification, Defendant attributed a non-existent quotation to 28 Jiminez v. Domino’s Pizza, Inc.,

(C.D. Cal. 2006). (See Doc. 50 at 12.) Even though Plaintiff pointed out this error in its reply brief (Doc. 53 at 10 n. 4), Defendant has repeated the erroneous attribution again in its 1 | concludes the Findings and Recommendations are supported by the record and by proper 2 | analysis. Thus, the Court ORDERS: 3 1. The Findings and Recommendations issued on March 26, 2025, (Doc. 56) are 4 ADOPTED in full. 5 2. Plaintiffs request for judicial notice of the State Court Action (Doc. 54) is 6 GRANTED. 7 3. Plaintiffs motion for class certification (Doc. 46) is GRANTED. 8 9 IT IS SO ORDERED.

10 | Dated: _ July 31, 2025 Charis [Tourn TED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28