Operating Engineers Health And Welfare Trust Fund For Northern California v. A1 Broom Service, Inc.

• Court: District Court, N.D. California
• Decided: March 19, 2021
• Docket: 3:20-cv-05615
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 Shaamini Babu, Esq. (SBN 230704) Arcolina Panto, Esq. (SBN 235786) 2 SALTZMAN & JOHNSON LAW CORPORATION 1141 Harbor Parkway, Suite 100 3 Alameda, CA 94502 4 Telephone: (510) 906-4710 Email: sbabu@sjlawcorp.com 5 Email: apanto@sjlawcorp.com 6 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, Operating Engineers’ Health And Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California, et al. 7

8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

9 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10

11 OPERATING ENGINEERS’ HEALTH AND Case No. 3:20-cv-05615 VC 12 W CAE LL IF FA OR RE N T IAR ,U eS t aT l .F , U

ND FOR NORTHERN [PROPOSED] ORDER GRA NTING 13 MOTION FOR DEFAULT Plaintiffs, JUDGMENT AS MODIFIED 14 v. 15 A1 BROOM SERVICE INC., a California Corporation; and BONDI FORTINI, an Individual, 16 Defendants. 17 18 Defendant A1 Broom Service Inc., a California Corporation, and Defendant Bondi Fortini, an 19 individual (referred to collectively as “Defendants”) having failed to plead or otherwise defend this 20 action, their defaults having been entered. 21 The E itel fa ctors suppo rt t he e ntry of de faul t judg ment in this case . Eitel v. Mc Cool , 78 2 F.2d

22 1470, 14 71–72 (9th Cir. 1986). “[T ]h e factual a lle gation s o f the compla int, exc ept thos e relat ing to

23 the amount of damages, will be taken as true.” Geddes v. United Financial Group, 559 F.2d 557, 560 24 (9th Cir. 1977) (per curiam); see Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(b)(6). Those factual allegations, coupled with the 25 exhibits in the record, establish that the defendants have failed to submit the necessary documents for 26

27 an audit of its payrolls, thereby failing to comply with the requirements of the Bargaining Agreements 1 It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants promptly submit the following documents to Plaintiffs’ 2 || auditors to allow for completion of audit of Defendants’ payroll records for the period January 1, 2016 3 |] through December 31, 2020. 4 || The required documents are as follows: 5 ¢ Individual Earnings Records; 6 ¢ Federal Tax Forms W-2/W-3; 7 ¢ Workers Compensation Reports; 8 ¢ Weekly Payroll Reports for all employees during the audit period; 9 ¢ Cash Disbursements Journals or Check Registers or Bank Statements or Accounts Payable 10 covering transactions made during the audit period; 11 ¢ Any and all other documents requested by the auditors once these documents are received and 12 reviewed. 13 4 The plaintiffs’ request for attorneys’ fees is denied without prejudice since the selection

15 the audit was random and since there is currently no evidence supporting the defendants’ 16 ||\delinquency. See Northwest Administrators, Inc. v. Albertson’s, Inc., 104 F.3d 253, 257 (9th Cir. 1996). The plaintiffs’ request for an order requiring the defendants to pay the delinquent contributions 18 as calculated by the audit is denied without prejudice. The Federal Rules indicate that the Court should 19 retain a role in assessing “the amount of damages.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 55(b)(2). Following the audit, the

91 ||{plaintiffs may return for an award of the “unpaid contributions,” including any “interest on the unpaid 22 ||\contributions” and “reasonable attorney's fees and costs of the action.” 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(2)(A)-(D). 23 24 25 || Dated:__March 19, 2021 _ United States District Judge Vince Chhabria

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[PROPOSED] JUDGMENT