Mitchell v. United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CRYSTAL MITCHELL, Case No. 1:23-cv-00060 JLT EPG Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING IN FULL THE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS v. RECOMMENDING (1) GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL UNITED HEALTH CENTERS OF THE NOTICE AND (2) GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, a Colorado MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION corporation, (Docs. 46, 54, 56) Defendant. Crystal Mitchell is a former hourly, non-exempt employee of Defendant United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley (UHSJ) who worked as a staff accountant at Defendant’s facility. On March 26, 2025, the assigned magistrate judge issued Findings and Recommendations recommending Plaintiff’s request for judicial notice and motion for class certification both be granted. (Doc. 56.) Defendant filed objections on April 24, 2025. (Doc. 57.) Plaintiff replied to the objections on May 2, 2025. (Doc. 58.) According to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1), this Court performed a de novo review of the action. Having carefully reviewed the matter, including the objections, which essentially reiterate arguments carefully considered and rejected by the magistrate judge1, and the reply, the Court 1 In its original opposition to the motion for class certification, Defendant attributed a non-existent quotation to Jiminez v. Domino’s Pizza, Inc., 238 F.R.D. 241 (C.D. Cal. 2006). (See Doc. 50 at 12.) Even though Plaintiff pointed out this error in its reply brief (Doc. 53 at 10 n. 4), Defendant has repeated the erroneous attribution again in its concludes the Findings and Recommendations are supported by the record and by proper analysis. Thus, the Court ORDERS: 1. The Findings and Recommendations issued on March 26, 2025, (Doc. 56) are ADOPTED in full. 2. Plaintiffs request for judicial notice of the State Court Action (Doc. 54) is 3. Plaintiffs motion for class certification (Doc. 46) is GRANTED.

Dated: _ July 31, 2025 Charis [Tourn TED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE