Schmidt

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Michael Schmidt, No. 2:20-cv-02400-KJM-KJN Plaintiff, ORDER v. Vision Service Plan, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Michael Schmidt has brought this putative wage-and-hour class, collective, and 18 representative action on behalf of defendants’ current and former customer service 19 representatives. First Am. Compl. §§ 1, 3, ECF No. 33. Plaintiff now moves this court to 20 preliminarily approve the parties’ settlement agreement. See ECF No. 36. The motion is unopposed. /d. The court has reviewed the terms of the proposed settlement agreement and finds 22 that supplemental briefing is necessary prior to a preliminary approval hearing. Specifically, 23 plaintiff must show he has standing to bring a claim on behalf of the proposed Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective. To satisfy Article III’s standing requirement, plaintiff bears the burden of alleging facts 26 …