DeVries

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 SEAN GILBERT DEVRIES, Case No. 16-cv-02953-WHO

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER RE TAX REPORTING ISSUE

v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 111 10 EXPERIAN INFORMATION

SOLUTIONS, INC.,

11 Defendant.

12 13 The parties have negotiated a settlement agreement but are now at an impasse regarding 14 how Experian Information Solutions, Inc. (“Experian”) will be issuing Form 1099s to report to the 15 Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) the amount to be paid to Sean Gilbert DeVries and Ronald 16 Chinitz (collectively “Named Plaintiffs”).1 Under the settlement agreement, Experian agreed to 17 make a single lump sum payment to the Named Plaintiffs through its counsel of record. 18 Separately, the Named Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs’ Counsel agreed upon the appropriate allocation of 19 that lump sum as between the Named Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs’ Counsel for the work it did on 20 behalf of the putative class and the general public. 21 Experian argues that it is obligated to issue Form 1099s to each of the two Named 22 Plaintiffs, and Plaintiffs’…