Camarlinghi

I. BACKGROUND

1 A. Procedural History 2 Plaintiff filed the putative class action complaint on April 26, 2021, against Defendant 3 Santa Clara County, alleging that Defendant violated his constitutional rights—and those of others 4 similarly situated—by failing to release him and others within a reasonable period of time after the 5 district attorney declined to prosecute them. ECF No. 1. Plaintiff’s Complaint asserts two § 1983 6 claims for violations of his substantive and procedural due process rights. Id. 7 The parties reached an early settlement prior to class certification after multiple settlement 8 conferences with Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler. The Class Settlement Agreement and General 9 Release (“Settlement Agreement”), attached hereto as Exhibit A, defines the class as two 10 Subclasses, as follows: “Settlement Subclass I” means all persons (i) detained at the Jail from 12 to up to 24 hours after the Santa Clara DA declined prosecution; and (ii) for whom no holds, warrants, or other reasons justified their continued detention at the time the DA declined prosecution; and (iii) where such circumstances occurred between April 26,…