Chu

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TEDER &

WEISS, LLP, Case No. 21-cv-08739-RS

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON MOTION FOR

v. ATTORNEY FEES AND COSTS

STEPHANIE J. CHU, et al., Defendants.

15 Barrett Daffin Frappier Teder & Weiss, LLP (“Barrett Daffin”) filed this interpleader action in the Superior Court for the County of San Mateo to resolve competing claims to the surplus funds resulting from a non-judicial foreclosure sale of real property in Foster City, California. In March, Barrett Daffin’s motion for attorney fees and costs from interpleaded funds was denied without prejudice, as the United States suggested the motion was simply premature given it had not yet been determined whether Defendant Ray Yeganeh’s claim to interpleaded funds was superior to the United States’ federal tax lien. In July, Yeganeh and the United States stipulated that Yeganeh’s judgment lien does indeed have priority over the United States’ federal tax…