NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION ATTORNEY FEES AND EXPENSES SETTLEMENT AND APPROVAL MOTION
Class counsel in California Coalition for Women Prisoners et al. v. United States of America Federal Bureau of Prisons et al., No. 4:23-CV-04155-YGR (N.D. Cal.) have filed a motion for the Court to approve a settlement of the attorneys’ fees and expenses. These are the attorneys’ fees and expenses for investigating, preparing and litigating this lawsuit from 2018 through March 31, 2025. Under the federal rules, class members may object to the attorneys’ fees and expenses motion.
The California Coalition for Women Prisoners (“CCWP”) case is a federal class action lawsuit challenging Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) policies, customs, and practices which were alleged to facilitate sexual assault, retaliation, and unconstitutional conditions at BOP facilities. You are a Class Member if you were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between March 15, 2024 and May 1, 2024 or if you are a Named Plaintiff (R.B.; A.H.R.; S.L.; J.L.; J.M.; G.M.; A.S.; and L.T.).
The CCWP case resulted in a Consent Decree with provisions regarding medical and mental health care, alerts and reporting for concerns raised by the Plaintiff Class, procedural protections against staff physical and sexual abuse and retaliation, reporting and verification of the release and security designation classification, access to the Monitor and Class Counsel, among other things.
Under the Consent Decree attorneys’ fees and expenses are to be paid by the BOP, not by the class. Class Counsel has asked the Court to approve a settlement of all fees and expenses up to March 31, 2025, for a total of $3 million. This amount includes fees for over 25 attorneys and paralegals working at 5 organizations over the course of over six years. You can read the motion to approve the attorneys’ fees settlement online at https://rbgg.com/ccwp-fees. (scroll below for the documents in this page), by contacting Class Counsel at RBGG, P.O. Box 390, San Francisco, California, 94104; or by accessing the Court docket in this case through the Court’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system at https://pacer.uscourts.gov/, or by accessing it on TRULINCS.
You have a right to object to the attorney’s fees and expenses settlement. Any objections must include the case name, California Coalition for Women Prisoners et al. v. United States of America Federal Bureau of Prisons et al., and case number, 4:23-CV-04155-YGR (N.D. Cal.), as well as your name, address, and signature. Objections may be sent by mail or submitted by filing them in person at any location of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California no later than March 10, 2026. If mailed, your objections must be postmarked no later than March 10, 2026, and sent to the following address:
Clerk of the Court
United States District Court
Northern District of California
1301 Clay Street, Suite 400S
Oakland, CA 94612
PLEASE DO NOT TELEPHONE THE COURT OR THE CLERK’S OFFICE TO ASK ABOUT THE SETTLEMENT.
Dkt 534 Pls' Unopposed Motion for Approval of Settlement of Attorneys' Fees and Expenses, 02-02-26, 672-7 Dkt 534-1 Galvan Decl ISO Motion for Attorney's Fees and Expenses, 02-02-26, 672-7 Dkt 534-2 Beaty Decl ISO Motion for Attorney's Fees and Expenses, 02-02-26, 672-7 Dkt 534-3 Cha-Kim Decl ISO Motion for Attorney's Fees and Expenses, 02-02-26, 672-7 Dkt 534-4 Montes Decl ISO Motion for Attorney's Fees and Expenses, 02-02-26, 672-7 Dkt 534-5 Pearl Decl ISO Motion for Attorney's Fees and Expenses, 02-02-26, 672-7