Westfall

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 1] Jeremy Westfall, et al., No. 1:21-cv-00283-KJM-CSK Plaintiffs, ORDER v. County of Stanislaus, et al., Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff Jeremy Westfall, individually and as Guardian ad Litem for his son, minor 19 plaintiff B.W., requests this court approve the settlement and compromise of B.W.’s claims. The 20 court submitted the motion without oral argument as provided under Local Rule 230(g). For the reasons set forth below, the court grants the petition and approves the minor’s compromise. 22 I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Jeremy Westfall alleges Stanislaus County social workers violated his 24 constitutional rights and the rights of his child by unlawfully removing B.W. from his care and 25 custody in February 2019 following the death of his other child. Second Am. Compl. (SAC) 99 155-59, ECF No. 19; Mot. at 6, ECF No. 73. B.W., aged five years old at the time, was 27 initially…