Griffith et al v. Providence Health & Services et al

Filing 74

MINUTE ORDER granting parties' 73 Stipulated Motion to Extend the Deadline to Mail Payments; the deadline for mailing Group II payments is hereby EXTENDED to Friday, July 21, 2017. Authorized by U.S. District Judge John C Coughenour. (SWT) (cc: Karen Marceaux, Patrick C. Petersen, Tamara Towers Parry, MD via USPS)

THE HONORABLE JOHN C. COUGHENOUR

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
AT SEATTLE

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LINDA GRIFFITH and JEANETTE
WENZL, on behalf of themselves,
individually, and on behalf of the
Providence Health & Services Cash
Balance Retirement Plan,

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v.
PROVIDENCE HEALTH &
SERVICES, et al.,
Defendants.

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MINUTE ORDER

Plaintiffs,

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CASE NO. C14-1720-JCC

The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable John C.

18 Coughenour, United States District Judge:
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This matter comes before the Court on the parties’ stipulated motion to extend the

20 deadline to mail payments to 3,802 nonvested former participants (“Group II”) (Dkt. No. 73).
21 The parties explain that, shortly before mailing the payments, Rust Consulting—the company
22 retained by Defendants to process and mail the Group II payments—changed its position on how
23 the payments should be treated for tax purposes. (Id. at 2.) This change in position required the
24 parties to perform unanticipated research and expert consultation to ensure proper treatment of
25 the payments, resulting in a delay. (Id.) The parties have now reached consensus on the proper
26 tax treatment of the Group II payments and Defendants are prepared to process and mail the

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1 payments by Friday, July 21, 2017. (Id.) Accordingly, the parties request an extension of the
2 mailing deadline to that date. (Id.)
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The motion (Dkt. No. 73) is GRANTED. The deadline for mailing Group II payments is

4 hereby EXTENDED to Friday, July 21, 2017.
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DATED this 30th day of June 2017.

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William M. McCool
Clerk of Court

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s/Paula McNabb
Deputy Clerk

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