Lusk

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 4 JEREMY R. LUSK, CASE NO. 1:17-cv-00762-AWI-EPG

5 Plaintiff,

ORDER RE PRELIMINARY FAIRNESS

6 v. EVALUATION

7 FIVE GUYS ENTERPRISES LLC; and (Doc. No. 52)

ENCORE FGBF, LLC,

8 Defendants. 9

10 11 I. Introduction 12 In this lawsuit, an employee, on behalf of himself and a proposed class of his fellow 13 employees, is suing his two employers for violating California wage-and-hour laws and California 14 and federal consumer reporting laws. The employee is Plaintiff Jeremy Lusk, and the employers 15 are Defendant Five Guys Enterprises LLC and Defendant Encore FGBF, LLC (collectively 16 “Defendants”). 17 After Plaintiff filed this lawsuit, Plaintiff and Defendants reached a proposed class action 18 settlement agreement. Plaintiff moved the Court to preliminarily approve the proposed settlement 19 agreement under Rule 23(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The Court denied Plaintiff’s 20 motion, concluding that Plaintiff failed to demonstrate that the…