Merante

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ISABELLA SAVINI MERANTE, Case No. 21-cv-03234-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY

v. APPROVAL OF CLASS ACTION AND

PAGA SETTLEMENT

AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN STUDY, INC., Docket No. 45 11 Defendant. 12 13 14 I. INTRODUCTION This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary approval of a class action and Private Attorney General Act (“PAGA”) settlement of the claims asserted against Defendant in this action. Having considered the arguments of counsel at the July 21, 2022 hearing and the evidence submitted in support of Plaintiffs’ motion, the for the reasons stated on the record and those that follow, the Court hereby grants Plaintiffs’ motion and orders as follows. II. TERMS OF THE PROPOSED SETTLEMENT The terms of the settlement are memorialized in the Settlement Agreement (“Agreement” or “Settlement”) filed contemporaneously with Plaintiff’s motion.…