Daniel Draney v. Westco Chemicals, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
Case 2:19-cv-01405-ODW-AGR Document Filed 08/10/ Page 1 of Page ID #:1119
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6 7 United States District Court 8 Central District of California 9 10 11 DANIEL DRANEY, et al., Case № 2:19-cv-01405-ODW (AGRx)
12 Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING AMENDED v. MOTION TO CERTIFY CLASS AND PRELIMINARILY APPROVE WESTCO CHEMICALS, INC., et al., CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT [66]
Defendants. 17 I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Plaintiffs Daniel Draney and Lorenzo Ibarra are employees of Defendant Westco 20 Chemicals, Inc., whose principals are Defendants Ezekiel Zwillinger and Steven 21 Zwillinger. (First Am. Compl. (“FAC”) ¶¶ 14–15, 17–18, ECF No. 23.) Plaintiffs 22 participated in Westco’s 401(k) Plan, a defined-contribution, individual account 23 pension plan subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 24 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001–1461. (FAC ¶¶ 1–2.) Plaintiffs allege that throughout most of the 25 2010s, the Zwillingers, as Westco’s principals, invested the 401(k) Plan funds 26…