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Subject: Settlement of Multiple Claims related to the Port
From: Office of the City Attorney
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing and directing the City Attorney to compromise and settle claims of twenty-four (24) of the fifty-eight (58) plaintiffs in the matters of Port Local 10 arehouse and longshoremen et al. v. City of Oakland, et al., United States District Court case no. C03-2962 TEH (JL), our file no. X01958 and Sri Louise Coles et al. v. City of Oakland et al., United States District Court case no. c03-2961 TEH, our file no. 23333, for a sum not to exceed a total of one hundred forty-five thousand dollars and no cents ($145,000.00). One check in the amount of seventy thousand dollars and no cents ($70,000.00) as payment in full for the fourteen (14) plaintiffs settling for $5,000.00 each and a second check in the amount of seventy-five thousand dollars and no cents ($75,000.00) as payment in full for the ten (10) plaintiffs settling for $7,500.00 each. These matters arise from the April 7, 2003 Port of Oakland police action (excessive force/civil rights violation)