In re E-3 Systems Litigation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOSE FRANCO, Case No. 19-cv-01453-HSG Plaintiff, ORDER DIRECTING PLAINTIFF TO

SUBMIT SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING

? v. ON INCENTIVE AWARD E-3 SYSTEMS, Defendant.

Plaintiff seeks approval of a Class Representative incentive award of $5,000. Dkt. No. 61 || at 15. This is approximately seven times the recovery of the average class member. See Dkt. No. 62-2. The Court is obliged to “scrutiniz[e] all incentive awards,” Radcliffe v. Experian Info. a Solutions, Inc., 715 F.3d 1157, 1165 (9th Cir. 2013), and evaluate “relevant factors includ[ing] the actions the plaintiff has taken to protect the interests of the class, the degree to which the class has S || benefitted from those actions, . . . [and] the amount of time and effort the plaintiff expended in || pursuing the litigation ....” Staton v. Boeing Co., 327 F.3d 938, 977 (9th Cir. 2003). Here the || …