Opinion
PRISON LAW OFFICE, DONALD SPECTER - 83925, WARREN E. GEORGE - 53588, SARA NORMAN - 1895362, General Delivery, San Quentin, California, DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND, INC., LINDA KILB, HOLLY M. BALDWIN - 191317, Berkeley, California, CAROLINE N. MITCHELL - 143124, San Francisco, CA, BINGHAM McCUTCHEN, LLP, FRANK B. KENNAMER - 157844, Three Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California, ROSEN, BIEN & GALVAN, LLP, MICHAEL W. BIEN - 096891, ERNEST GALVAN - 196065, San Francisco, California, JONES DAY, Attorneys for Plaintiffs.
/s/ Jennifer Nygaard, Deputy Attorney General, Attorney for Defendants.
ORDER CONFIRMING UNDISPUTED BOARD OF PAROLE HEARINGS ATTORNEYS' FEES AND COSTS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2007
On March 21, 2001, the District Court ordered all further fee and expense requests and disputes in the Board of Parole Hearing (BPH) portion of the case shall be resolved through the periodic fee process established by this Court's March 26, 1997 order.
The former Board of Prison Terms (BPT) was part of a state government reorganization effective July 1, 2005, and is now known as the Board of Parole Hearings (BPH).
On March 26, 1997, the District Court established procedures by which plaintiffs are to collect periodic attorneys' fees and costs in this case in connection with their work monitoring defendants' compliance with the Court's Orders and collecting fees.
Pursuant to these procedures, plaintiffs delivered by overnight Federal Express their First Quarterly Statement for 2007 to defendants on May 4, 2007. The parties completed their meet and confer on June 15, 2007.
As a result of the June 15, 2007 agreement, the parties are able to agree to the payment of $157, 368.44 in fees and costs incurred during the First Quarter of 2007. Attached hereto as Exhibit A are charts setting forth the undisputed fees and costs due and owing for the First Quarter of 2007, which is collectable forty-five days from the entry of this Order.
Interest on these fees and costs will run from the date this Order is entered, accruing at the rate provided by 28 U.S.C. § 1961.
WHEREFORE, IT IS CONFIRMED that $157, 368.44 becomes collectable and legal interest begins accruing on such sum as of the date this Order is entered.
IT IS SO ORDERED.