Perez

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION No. 1:22-cv-00879-JLT-EPG

HOURLY EMPLOYEES’ PENSION

12 PLAN, et. al., ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS TO DENY MOTION

13 Plaintiffs, FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT 14 v. (Doc. 26) 15 MARIE E. PEREZ, 16 Defendant. 17 18 Plaintiffs Hormel Foods Corporation Hourly Employees’ Pension Plan (the Plan) and 19 Hormel Foods Corporation (Hormel) filed this action on July 15, 2022 against Defendant Marie 20 E. Perez. (Doc. 1.) According to the undisputed facts alleged in the complaint, Hormel sent a 21 form to former employees who were deemed eligible to receive a “Lump Sum Window” benefit 22 under amendments made to the Plan in 2020. (Id., ¶¶ 11–14.) Due to an “administrative 23 oversight,”1 Hormel inadvertently sent the form to Defendant, who never worked for Hormel and 24 was never a Plan participant. (Id., ¶ 15–16.) Hormel should have sent the form to a different 25 Marie E. Perez, an individual who had been an employee at the…