STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR COLLECTION OF UNDISPUTED ATTORNEYS' FEES AND COSTS FOR FOURTH QUARTER OF 2018

JON S. TIGAR, District Judge.

On December 17, 2002, the Court established a procedure by which plaintiffs are to collect attorneys' fees and costs incurred in connection with the Stipulation for Injunctive Relief. This procedure requires plaintiffs' counsel to submit to defendants a quarterly statement of fees incurred in monitoring work, and permits defendants thirty (30) days from the receipt of plaintiffs' statement to notify plaintiffs of any disputed items. After the parties meet and confer on any of defendant's objections, counsel shall then prepare a stipulated order for payment of the fees not subject to defendants' objections. The Order also states that defendants shall have thirty (30) days from the entry of the order to pay the undisputed fees and that interest on any undisputed fees will run from the thirty-first day after the Order is filed, accruing at the rate provided by 28 U.S.C. § 1961.

Pursuant to this procedure, plaintiffs' counsel served their fourth quarter billing statement for the period of October 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018 on February 1, 2019. The parties agreed to payment of $260,917 in undisputed fees and costs billed by plaintiffs' counsel. This stipulation fully settles all costs and fees for the fourth quarter 2018 billing.

WHEREFORE, defendants agree to pay plaintiffs' counsel $260,917 within 30 days of the signing of this Order. On the 31st day following the entry of this Order, interest on any unpaid amount will begin to accrue at the rate provided by 28 U.S.C. § 1961 (i.e., the weekly average 1 year constant maturity Treasury yield for the calendar week preceding the date of the Order.)

I, Alison Hardy, attest that Kyle Lewis signed this document on February 4, 2019.

IT IS SO ORDERED.