Westcott v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc. (In re FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc.)

Full title: In re FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM, INC., EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES LITIGATION…

Court: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA SOUTH BEND DIVISION

Date published: Apr 28, 2017

Case No. 3:05-MD-527 RLM (N.D. Ind. Apr. 28, 2017)

Opinion

Case No. 3:05-MD-527 RLM MDL 1700

04-28-2017

In re FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM, INC., EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES LITIGATION THIS DOCUMENT RELATES TO: Thomas Westcott, et al. v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., Civil No. 3:06cv485 RLM-MGG (MD)

Robert L. Miller, Jr. Judge United States District Court

OPINION AND ORDER

Twenty proposed class actions in this multi-district litigation docket came before me on March 13-14 for fairness hearings. The cases are on limited remand from the court of appeals, where nineteen of them awaited resolution. The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation centralized the cases under 28 U.S.C. § 1407, but the cases haven't been consolidated, so each proposed settlement must be examined separately.

I. HISTORY OF THE MDL DOCKET

In July 2005, the JPMDL granted (over the plaintiffs' objections) FedEx Ground's second request to centralize a series of cases in which FedEx Ground drivers claimed to be employees, rather than the independent contractors their employment contracts announced. The Panel reasoned that economies were to be gained because all drivers were governed by the same contract. The MDL process proved cumbersome. Even if the wording of each contract was the same, each state's agency law varied, and differences in operation from one terminal to the next had the potential of affecting the decision.

The number of cases in the MDL docket eventually grew to 40. I appointed attorneys from three law firms to serve as co-lead counsel: Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. of Minneapolis, Harwood Feffer LLP of New York City, and Leonard Carder LLP of Oakland. I also appointed attorneys from three other firms - Cureton Caplan, P.C. of Delran, NJ; Siegel, Brill, Greupner, Duffy & Foster, P.A. of Minneapolis; and Zimmerman Reed P.L.L.P. of Minneapolis - to complete the plaintiffs' steering committee.

The stakes were enormous. Not only did the plaintiffs' co-lead counsel seek to represent upwards of 10,000 arguably under-compensated drivers, but the attack on drivers' independent contractor status threatened FedEx Ground's entire business model.

Consistent with those stakes, discovery was more than extensive. Although damages discovery was deferred, merits discovery and class discovery were conducted simultaneously. Some 3.2 million documents were produced and analyzed; seventeen sets of interrogatories were answered; 215 named plaintiffs answered fifteen requests for admission and sat for depositions; 105 FedEx Ground personnel sat for daylong depositions; 20 expert witnesses produced reports and sat for daylong depositions; Daubert motions were filed and defended. The class representatives were heavily involved in tracking down records and documents, as well as in preparing for, and giving, their own depositions.

The plaintiffs filed class certification motions in each of the cases; FedEx Ground opposed each motion. The plaintiffs filed an omnibus fact memorandum supported by 65 bankers' boxes of documents. In 2007 and 2008, I certified classes in 26 of the then-40 cases, and in all of the 20 on limited remand from the court of appeals. FedEx Ground sought interlocutory appellate review of the certification grants, and the plaintiffs successfully opposed that effort. Class notifications were hampered by spotty databases.

Sixty summary judgment motions and briefing followed. The drivers filed a 75-page statement of undisputed material facts with citations to 12 volumes. In 2010 and 2011, I denied a few of FedEx Ground's summary judgment motions but granted most, and granted all in the 20 cases now on limited remand. With respect to some of the cases, I suggested remand and the Panel sent the cases back to the transferor courts. Co-lead counsel appealed the summary judgment grants in these 20 cases to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; in most of those cases, FedEx Ground cross-appealed the class certifications.

In both this court and the court of appeals, the parties recommended that the Kansas Craig case be addressed first, as something of a quasi-bellwether case. After briefing and argument, the court of appeals certified the employee/independent contractor case to the Kansas Supreme Court, which devised a new 18-part test and answered the certified question in the drivers' favor. Craig v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc., 335 P.3d 66 (Kan. 2014). The court of appeals ultimately reversed my grant of summary judgment to FedEx Ground in Craig, and remanded the case. In re FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc. Emp't Practices Litig., 792 F.3d 818 (7th Cir. 2015). In addition to the reversal in the Kansas case, rulings in other courts were trending toward findings of employee status, see Alexander v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc., 765 F.3d 981 (9th Cir. 2014) (California law); Slayman v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc., 765 F.3d 1033 (9th Cir. 2015) (Oregon law), or at least toward fact issues for trial. See Gray v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc., 799 F.3d 995 (8th Cir. 2015) (Missouri law); Carlson v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc., 787 F.3d 1313 (11th Cir. 2015) (Florida law).

The parties didn't immediately ask me to find for the Kansas drivers on liability and suggest remand to the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Instead, the parties had chosen a mediator in an effort to resolve all of the cases remaining in the Seventh Circuit.

Each case was mediated separately, with some cases requiring several sessions. Each case was mediated with an eye on the governing law, which varied from case to case. The mediation spanned four weeks. The drivers and FedEx Ground exchanged experts' views as to the maximum recovery for each case if the drivers prevailed across the board. Settlements were reached in each case, and the court granted preliminary approval of each of the settlements. The plaintiffs then retained Rust Consulting to administer the settlements.

I conducted fairness hearings on March 13 and 14, 2017, and on March 15 and 16, I notified the court of appeals of my inclination to enter final approval of the class settlements. The court of appeals entered a second limited remand order on March 22 to allow me to do so.

II. FAIRNESS OF THE SETTLEMENT

Parties can't settle class actions without the court finding that the proposed settlement is "fair, reasonable, and adequate." Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(e); Synfuel Technologies, Inc. v. DHL Express (USA), Inc., 463 F.3d 646, 652 (7th Cir. 2006); see also EEOC v. Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc., 768 F.2d 884, 889 (7th Cir. 1985) ("The district court may not deny approval of a consent decree unless it is unfair, unreasonable, or inadequate."). In that effort, we in this circuit consider several circumstantial factors:

(1) the strength of the case for plaintiffs on the merits, balanced against the extent of settlement offer; (2) the complexity, length, and expense of further litigation; (3) the amount of opposition to the settlement; (4) the reaction of members of the class to the settlement; (5) the opinion of competent counsel; and (6) stage of the proceedings and the amount of discovery completed.

Wong v. Accretive Health, Inc., 773 F.3d 859, 863 (7th Cir. 2014) (quoting Gautreaux v. Pierce, 690 F.2d 616, 631 (7th Cir. 1982)). Of those, the first is the most important. Martin v. Reid, 818 F.3d 302, 306 (7th Cir. 2016).

The Westcott case was filed in the District of Maryland and centralized in this court under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 in August 2006. I granted the plaintiffs' motion for certification of a class in March 2008, and granted summary judgment to FedEx Ground in December 2010, finding that the plaintiffs were independent contractors under Maryland law. The class appealed.

In June 2016, the parties reached a proposed settlement. FedEx Ground would pay $9,400,000 to the plaintiffs. For each workweek of 35 or more hours during the class period, each class member would receive $71.93; for each workweek of 16-35 hours, each class member would receive $25.17. No class member would receive less than a $250 lump sum. The average recovery per class member would be $12,047, with the highest share being $29,455. No plaintiff would be required to fill out, or collect the information needed for, a claim form. No part of the settlement fund would revert to FedEx Ground if anything were left over.

The proposed settlement resulted from arms-length negotiations with a private mediator. Each side took stock of potential liability and damages under Maryland law. The class consulted an expert in accounting and damages, who concluded that the maximum recovery the plaintiffs could achieve would be $18,920,000 with interest. FedEx Ground assessed the claims' value at less than that. The proposed settlement amounts to about 50 percent of the plaintiffs' estimate of a perfect outcome.

A perfect outcome would be a long way off. At this point, my ruling that these drivers are independent contractors under Maryland law is the only judicial determination. The class would need for the court of appeals to find my ruling to have been in error; such an appellate ruling might consist only of a determination that Maryland drivers might be employees, but a trial is needed. Such a ruling would be followed by a likely FedEx Ground motion to decertify the class (seeking to exclude drivers who hired others to handle routes and arguing that "full time" drivers would be too difficult to identify), a remand to the district court in Maryland, and a need to overcome defenses FedEx Ground didn't need to raise at the summary judgment stage. They faced some potentially unfavorable law: if they were held to have authorized deductions in writing (the operating agreements), they could only recover a small percentage of their claims, even if they established that they were employees. If the plaintiffs prevailed at trial, FedEx Ground would likely appeal. Before the settlement, then, the class needed to string together victories in many skirmishes, beginning with a reversal in the court of appeals. The position of an appellant is not one of strength. And receipt of any money by any plaintiffs would be a long time off, well beyond the eleven years already invested in this litigation.

The plan for giving notice of the proposed settlement, and the third party administrator's execution of the plan, are detailed thoroughly in the papers supporting the plaintiffs' motions, and comply with the preliminary approval order, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(e), and 28 U.S.C. § 1715.

No class member has objected to the proposed settlement.

Every settlement is a compromise, but this settlement achieves a good percentage of what the plaintiffs might have won had the case ever reached trial. In the absence of settlement, the best case scenario for the class is probably complex, would very likely take many more years, and is certain to be expensive - perhaps more than what has been incurred to get to this point. There is no opposition or objection. There is no indication or suggestion of collusion. Based on all of this, I find that the proposed settlement is fair, reasonable and adequate.

III. ATTORNEY FEES

Plaintiffs' co-lead counsel seek an award of attorney fees of $2,820,000 from the settlement amount. Our court of appeals favors the percentage-of-the-fund fee in common fund cases because it provides the best hope of estimating what a willing seller and a willing buyer seeking the largest recovery in the shortest time would have agreed to ex ante. See In re Synthroid Marketing Litig., 325 F.3d 974, 979-980 (7th Cir. 2003). As co-lead counsel calculate, that would be 30 percent of the $9.4 million settlement fund. As I understand the law of this circuit, I must take another step or two before I can determine attorney fees.

In Redman v. RadioShack Corp., 768 F.3d 622, 630 (7th Cir. 2014), the court of appeals explained that if we simply divide the gross settlement figure by the attorney fee request, we saddle the class members with the costs of administration, which benefit the attorneys as well as the class members. Accordingly, the court explained, "[t]he ratio that is relevant to assessing the reasonableness of the attorneys' fee that the parties agreed to is the ratio of (1) the fee to (2) the fee plus what the class members received." Id.

In their memorandum in support of their motion for final approval, co-lead counsel expect the $9,400,000 class settlement fund to be allocated and distributed this way: about $6,421,000 to the class; $2,820,000 (if I award what counsel seek) for attorney's fees and costs; $50,000 to the third-party administrator for settlement administration; $15,000 (if I award what counsel seek) in service fees for the named class representative, who gave a long deposition in this action; and about $94,000 (1 percent of the settlement) for a reserve fund for later payments to any self-identified class members.

The affidavit of the third-party administrator's representative in support of the plaintiffs' motion for final approval estimates that about $59,763 is needed for settlement administration [Doc. No. 2918]. The exhibit attached to the settlement agreement itself estimates about $48,734 for settlement administration [Doc. No. 2642-8]. I will base the amount withheld for administrative costs on the third-party administrator's estimates, and will authorize payment up to $75,000 for the cost of settlement administration, to provide an adequate buffer for any additional costs that may be incurred.

The service fees and the reserve fund would go to class members, so the total going to class members plus the requested attorney fees (and costs) would be $9,325,000. A 30 percent fee, as calculated in accordance with Redman v. RadioShack, would be $2,797,500.

The objectors in the New Jersey case filed a motion to treat all of the settlements as an aggregate "megafund," and award much lower percentages for attorney fees across the board. At the fairness hearing, counsel for the New Jersey objectors didn't persuade me that the New Jersey objectors have standing to object to proposed settlements in cases to which they aren't parties. I am denying their requests to treat these cases as a single "megafund," but the ruling and its reasoning are to be found only in the opinion and order in the New Jersey case - the case in which the objectors have standing.

The Manual for Complex Litigation reports that in deciding an award of attorney fees, courts should consider the size of the fund to be shared by the attorneys and class members; the number of class members who will share; any understandings on attorney compensation methods actually reached at the outset of the attorney-client relationship; any side agreements class counsel might have made; any objections by class members; the attorneys' skill and efficiency; the litigation's complexity and duration; the risks of nonrecovery and nonpayment; the amount of time reasonably devoted to the case by counsel (a factor not favored in our circuit); and awards in similar cases. Manual for Complex Litigation (Fourth) § 14.121 (2004). Guides to determining a prevailing market rate include comparable contracts, data from large common-pool cases where fees were privately negotiated, and information on class-counsel auctions. In re Synthroid Marketing Litig., 264 F.3d 712, 719-722 (7th Cir. 2001). I must bear in mind that the greater the fee award, the lower the recovery by each class member. Redman v. RadioShack, 768 F.3d at 629. In evaluating these factors, I have relied on the convincing affidavit of Professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick, as well as the rest of the record in this case.

There have been no objections to the fee request, I have no information that any side agreements are involved, and the attorneys involved as co-lead counsel are very capable and experienced in wage and hour litigation (and they faced very capable and experienced attorneys that FedEx Ground hired). The size of the common fund is $9,325,000 after the third party administrator is paid, and up to 533 class members will share in the recovery.

The named plaintiffs and their attorneys agreed at the outset of the litigation that counsel would be compensated with 40 percent of any recovery.

The duration of the litigation has been far greater than usual - this case is about 9 years old. In part, that duration reflects this case's having been co-mingled with the other cases in the MDL docket - it would have taken a judge in the District of Maryland far less time to resolve class certification issues and summary judgment motions under Maryland law than it took me to decide such things under the laws of 40 or so states - but it also reflects the complexity and risk involved. This class attacked FedEx Ground's business model, which was firmly grounded on the principle of using independent contractors rather than employees. The class members had a lot at stake, as shown by the damages expert's opinion that the class might recover nearly $19 million, if everything broke for the plaintiffs. This was no nuisance suit or likely coupon settlement. A hard battle was predictable from day one.

The attorneys handled this case on a pure contingent fee basis. Whatever investment they made in discovery and briefing of class certification and summary judgment motion was made largely around 2008 - 9 years ago, give or take a year. That's much longer than average for contingent fee attorneys in class actions, according to Professor Fitzpatrick.

The plaintiffs wielded novel statutory and common law theories to establish their employee status. If the plaintiffs' agreements and addenda with FedEx Ground were held to be "prior written authorizations," the statutory damages would be very limited. They faced (and overcame) a challenge in obtaining certification of a statewide class that included drivers with single routes, drivers with multiple routes, drivers who hired others to handle a route, drivers who signed employment contracts and those who signed as corporate entities. So while the plaintiffs' bar generally views wage and hour cases as undesirable, Mr. Westcott and his fellow drivers presented challenges that went well beyond the normal wage and hour case. The risk of non-liability and no compensation was great; these plaintiffs were in the court of appeals trying to reverse a finding of no-liability.

With all of that in their way, class counsel - armed primarily by a new direction in Kansas law and a few federal court of appeals decisions in cases the Panel remanded to transferor courts - achieved a truly remarkable result. FedEx Ground agreed to pay $9.4 million, reflecting close to half of what the plaintiffs thought they could recover if they ran the table.

Professor Fitzpatrick's analysis of recent cases from our circuit - which seems to have a greater preference than other circuits for the percentage-of-the-fund method of valuation - supports a fee award of 30 percent of the fund to be shared by counsel and class members. He reports that the average and median findings of market rate in contingent fee awards in labor and employment cases were 34.3 percent and 33.3 percent. He also noted that the awards he studied addressed only attorney fees and not expenses; co-lead counsel have included expenses within their requests. Plaintiffs' counsel report that expenses incurred in the MDL docket (not just in the Maryland case) exceeded $7,713,000.

In some settings, the prevailing market rate for class counsel depends in part on the expected size of the payout at the end of the litigation. Professor Fitzpatrick concedes that his sample of awards in labor and employment class actions didn't include recoveries in large amounts. In the setting of a securities class action, the court of appeals said "[d]ata show that 27.5% is well above the norm for cases in which $100 million or more changes hands. Eisenberg and Miller find that the mean award from settlements in the $100 to $250 million range is 12% and the median 10.2%." Silverman v. Motorola Solutions, Inc., 739 F.3d 956, 958 (7th Cir. 2013).

The size of this class action settlement is much smaller than the $200 million involved in Silverman v. Motorola Solutions. But it blinks reality to ignore that while this case was settled individually, it's one of 20 that remain on the MDL docket, and the aggregate proposed settlements total more than $200 million, and far more when counting cases that have already been remanded. The remanded California case settled for $226.5 million on its own. See Alexander v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc., No. 05-cv-38, 2016 WL 3351017 (N.D. Cal. June 15, 2016). There's no doubt that much of the discovery behind these cases overlapped, and that co-lead counsel applied a concerted strategy in moving them to settlement. On the other hand, class counsel applied laws specific to Maryland and conducted case-specific discovery. The settlement I am considering at this point only involves the Maryland plaintiffs and fees.

Silverman v. Motorola Solutions doesn't present an apples-to-apples analysis. First, Professor Fitzpatrick points out that securities cases like Silverman v. Motorola Solutions differ from wage and hour litigation in many ways, not least of which that class certification in securities cases is nearly automatic under today's laws. In Westcott v. FedEx Ground, as with all the other cases in this MDL docket, class counsel fought hard to get large classes certified, and (at the time of the settlements) would have seen those certifications revisited in every case in which they prevailed at the court of appeals.

Second, it's not clear that the Silverman v. Motorola Solutions analysis applies, or applies fully, to our case. As already noted, the settlement amount in this case -Westcott v. FedEx Ground - isn't even in the ballpark of what was involved in Silverman v. Motorola Solutions; I have to look at many other cases even to reach the $50 million amount the Silverman court also mentioned.

It's also not clear whether I am expected, or even allowed, to consider the nature of the plaintiffs involved in a case. The plaintiffs in Silverman were investors in Motorola; the class representatives were institutional investors. Silverman v. Motorola, Inc., No. 07-C-4507, 2012 WL 1597388, at *4 (N.D. Ill. May 7, 2012). Institutional investors are likely to be more sophisticated in the market for legal services than the individual drivers in this case, and so likelier to agree at the outset to a tapered fee arrangement rather than a simple percentage-of-the-recovery arrangement.

Third, the class representative in this case agreed that the attorneys would be compensated by 40 percent of any recovery, and the attorneys now seek a smaller percentage. If I am to consider the other settlements in this MDL docket, it seems appropriate to consider as well that many of the named plaintiffs agreed at the outset to pay the attorney 33 percent of any recovery, without limitation as to how much the recovery might be. None of the class representatives in the 20 cases remanded to me have fee agreements for any percentage less than 30 percent.

A lodestar cross-check - inquiring into billable hours and billing rates - isn't encouraged in this circuit, see Williams v. Rohm & Haas Pension Plan, 658 F.3d 629, 638 (7th Cir. 2011); Cook v. Niedert, 142 F.3d 1004, 1013 (7th Cir. 1998), and I'm not undertaking such a cross-check. A very complex examination of time sheets, hourly rates in various markets, and records would be needed to arrive at a true lodestar figure for this case alone. Co-lead counsel report, just in case, that across this litigation (not just this case), co-lead counsel and their firms have devoted more than 149,393 hours, producing an unadjusted collective lodestar fee of $74,540,341 had they billed by the hour. It would take only a modest 1.3 multiplier, co-lead counsel tell me, for the lodestar calculation to match the percentage-of-the-fund calculation across the litigation.

Even identifying the precise amount attributable to work on the cases remaining in the MDL would be difficult. In Alexander v. FedEx Ground, for example, Judge Chen attributed about $12.4 million in lodestar work on the MDL to Alexander. See Alexander v. FedEx Ground, No. 05-cv-38, 2016 WL 3351017, at *3 (N.D. Cal. June 15, 2016). This would need to be subtracted out of co-lead counsel's estimated lodestar figure for the MDL, but the fee award in that case is on appeal and might be adjusted. The fee award is unpaid. Fee awards in other remanded cases total $6,304,893, and I would need to deduct the amount of fees expected to be paid in those that can be attributed to work on cases still in the MDL. I don't have an accurate way to calculate the denominator from which I can then derive a multiplier.

It seems inescapable that there is a significant spillover between the 20 cases remaining in MDL-1700. For example, the appeal/certification/re-argument in the Craig v. FedEx Ground case from Kansas clearly benefitted all of the classes; it was part of the trend in the law that seemed to be shifting away from FedEx Ground's legal position. The depositions co-lead counsel took of FedEx Ground's national officers produced information that applied to all of the cases. But the spillover might be less than it appears at first blush. Substantial discovery surrounded local dispatch terminals, and the lion's share of the briefs on class certification and summary judgment were devoted to the specific laws of the various states.

For me to count up, or assign weight to, the various points I have discussed (effectively transforming them into "factors") would be inconsistent with the law of our circuit. It would be what our court of appeals has called "chopped salad". In Re Synthroid Mktg. Litig., 264 F.3d 712, 719 (7th Cir. 2001). But these are the reasons I conclude that the requested 30 percent (after accounting for the costs of administration) produces a reasonable attorney fee:

1. At the outset of the attorney-client relationship, it would have been plain to the clients and attorneys that this litigation would be hard fought and would take years. FedEx Ground's very business model was at stake, and, if the class was defined broadly, the drivers would have

hundreds of thousands - maybe millions - at stake. The history of this case - what would have been the future at the outset of the relationship - was even worse, with the case being centralized in a multidistrict litigation docket, the extensive discovery already discussed, and a decade of litigation, and no end in sight that would benefit the plaintiffs.

2. Because of the anticipated duration of the case, it also would have been plain to all that the attorneys would have to turn away prospective clients and tie up their own funds for the life of the case.

3. Counsel produced exceptional results in the face of long odds. Maryland law provided no assurance of success, and these plaintiffs were appellants at the time of the settlement. See Redman v. RadioShack, 768 F.3d at 633 ("the central consideration is what class counsel achieved for the members of the class rather than how much effort class counsel invested in the litigation.").

4. The amount of recovery would have been a fraction of what this settlement proposal contains had counsel not persuaded me to certify a class that included drivers with a single work area, drivers with multiple work areas, drivers who contracted with FedEx Ground under a corporate identity, and drivers who simply hired others to cover some of their assigned routes.

5. Of the 20 fee contracts in the cases that remain in MDL-1700, none set a percentage of the recovery less than the 30 percent requested here,

and some set the percentage at one-third of any recovery. The agreement in this case called for 40 percent.

6. There is nothing from which I can infer that unsophisticated (in the market for legal services) clients - when compared with institutional plaintiffs - would request a tapered-fee arrangement.

7. The fee request, unlike those to which it might be compared, includes expenses rather than seeking them separately. While I can't say how much is attributable to the Maryland case as opposed to the others co-lead counsel was handling, the overall total of expenses was $7.7 million.

8. Nobody has objected to co-lead counsel's fee request.

For all of these reasons, I approve, in large part, the proposed settlement agreement's proposed award of attorneys' fees and expenses in the total amount of $2,797,500 (30 percent of the gross settlement amount, less the cost of administration).

IV. SERVICE AWARDS TO CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Class counsel request a service award of $15,000 to the class representative. They explain that (in addition to the extraordinary duration of their service) the class representative did far more than the average class representative. Reams of records had to be collected, he (like each class representative in the companion cases) sat for a grueling day-long deposition. Class counsel notes that the requested awards are in line with several that have been approved in cases from within this circuit, citing Cook v. Niedert, 142 F.3d at 1016 ($25,000); In re Southwest Airlines Voucher Litig., No. 11 C 8176, 2013 WL 4510197, at *11 (N.D. Ill., Aug. 26, 2013) ($15,000 to 2 plaintiffs); Heekin v. Anthem, Inc., No. 05-cv-1908, 2012 WL 5878032 at *1 (S.D. Ind. Nov. 20, 2012) ($25,000); Am. Int'l Grp., Inc. v. ACE INA Holdings, Inc., No. 07 C 2898, 2012 WL 651727, at *17 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 28, 2012); ($25,000 to each of 7 plaintiffs); Will v. Gen. Dynamics Corp., Civ. No. 06-698, 2010 WL 4818174, at *4 (S.D. Ill. Nov. 22, 2010) ($25,000 to 3 plaintiffs). No objections were directed to this request.

The request for $15,000 service awards for the class representative is just, fair and reasonable.

V. CONCLUSION

Based on the foregoing, the court:

(1) GRANTS the plaintiffs' unopposed motion for final approval of the Maryland class action settlement calling for payment of $9,400,000 to the plaintiffs [Doc. No. 2865].

(2) GRANTS IN PART the plaintiffs' motion for attorney's fees and costs [Doc. No. 2799]; AWARDS class representative Thomas Westcott $15,000 for his services in this case, DIRECTS payment of that amount from the class settlement fund to him, in accordance with the terms of the settlement agreement; and AWARDS plaintiffs' counsel $2,797,500 for their services on this case.

(3) ORDERS that:

A. The parties shall perform, or cause to be performed, the remaining terms of the settlement as set forth in the settlement agreement. The court authorizes the payment by the settlement administrator of the settlement funds in accordance with the terms of the settlement agreement.

B. Prior timely opt-outs on the list maintained by the claims administrator are not included in, or bound by, this order and final judgment. Those timely opt-outs are not entitled to any recovery from the settlement proceeds obtained through this settlement.

C. The court hereby DISMISSES with prejudice this action, specifically including the Released Claims, with each party to bear its own costs and attorney's fees, except as provided below. The court incorporates the Class Action Settlement Agreement [Doc. No. 2642-1] by reference in this order.

As set forth in the Settlement Agreement, "Released Claims" means all claims, actions, causes of action, administrative claims, demands, debts, damages, penalties, costs, interest, attorneys' fees, obligations, judgments, expenses, or liabilities, in law or in equity, whether now known or unknown, contingent or absolute, which: (i) are owned or held by the plaintiffs and class members and/or by their affiliated business entities (if any), or any of them, as against Releasees, or any of them; (ii) arise under any statutory or common law claim which was asserted in this lawsuit or, whether or not asserted, could have been brought arising out of or related to the allegations of misclassification of plaintiffs and class members as independent contractors set forth in the operative complaint; and (iii) pertain to any time in the Release Period. The Released Claims include any known or unknown claims for damages and injunctive relief. The Released Claims include but are not limited to claims under the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Act, the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, and common law claims for fraud, breach of contract, rescission, unjust enrichment, mutual mistake, or declaratory judgment. The release excludes claims arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. Further definitions of "Released Claims" can be found in Sec. I, para. S of the Settlement Agreement [Doc. No. 2642-1].

"Releasees" means: "(a) [FedEx Ground], and its consolidated subsidiaries, successors, predecessors, assigns, affiliates, parent companies, shareholders, officers, directors, agents, insurers, attorneys, and employees; and (b) [FedEx Ground's] past, present, and future shareholders, officers, directors, agents, employees, attorneys, and insurers." (Settlement Agreement, Sec I, para. T). "Release Period" refers to the time period from May 5, 2003 through May 29, 2010 (the beginning of the ISP model in Maryland). (Settlement Agreement, Sec. I, para. U). [Doc. No. 2642-1].

D. Upon the entry of this order, the plaintiffs and all class members shall be deemed to have fully, finally, and forever released, relinquished, and discharged all Released Claims against all Releasees. "Class members" include "All persons who: 1) entered into a FedEx Ground or FedEx Home Delivery Form Operating Agreement (now known as OP-149 and Form OP-149-RES); 2) drove a vehicle on a full-time basis (meaning exclusive of time off for commonly excused employment absences) from May 5, 2003 through October 15, 2007 to provide package pick-up and delivery services pursuant to the Operating Agreement; and 3) were dispatched out of a terminal in the state of Maryland." [Doc. No. 2642-1]. A list of the class members is attached to this order as Exhibit A. To the extent additional individuals are identified who qualify as class members under the terms of the settlement agreement, they will be bound by this order.

E. Upon the entry of this final approval order, the plaintiff and all class members are barred and enjoined from asserting, filing, maintaining, or prosecuting, or in any way participating in the assertion, filing, maintenance or prosecution, of any action asserting any Released Claim against any of the Releasees, as set forth in and in accordance with the terms of the settlement agreement. Nothing in this order shall in any way impair or restrict the right of the parties to enforce the terms of the settlement.

F. The Parties' agreed upon procedure for disbursement of the $94,000 reserve fund provided for in the Settlement Agreement and the Plaintiffs' Motion for Final Approval [Doc. No. 2865], with such claims to be paid approximately 220 days after checks are issued to pay the claims of persons who fit the class definition but who were not previously identified as members of the plaintiff class according to the settlement formula described in the Settlement Agreement, is APPROVED. FedEx Ground will submit a list containing the names of such persons within 220 days of this order; this list will supplement the class member list attached as Exhibit A and such persons will be bound by this order.

G. The parties' request for appointment of Maryland Legal Aid, 500 E. Lexington Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 to be the cy pres beneficiary is APPROVED.

H. Neither the settlement, nor any act performed or document executed pursuant to or in furtherance of the settlement, is or may be deemed to be or may be used as: (a) an admission of, or evidence of, the validity of any Released Claim or any wrongdoing or liability of any Releasee; (b) an admission or concession by the plaintiff or any class member of any infirmity in the claims asserted in the operative complaint filed in this action; (c) an admission of, or evidence of, any fault or omission of any of the Releasees in any civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding in any court, administrative agency, or other tribunal.

I. The third-party administrator, Rust Consulting, Inc., may retain up to $75,000 as compensation for settlement administration.

J. Without affecting the finality of this judgment in any way, the court retains continuing jurisdiction over: (1) the enforcement of this order and final judgment; (2) the enforcement of the settlement agreement; (3) the distribution of the settlement proceeds to the class members and the cy pres beneficiary; and (4) class counsel's proposed allocation of attorney's fees to plaintiffs' counsel to be submitted to the court.

The clerk of this court is directed to enter judgment accordingly.

SO ORDERED.

ENTERED: April 28, 2017

/s/ Robert L. Miller, Jr.

Judge

United States District Court

Exhibit A: MD Class List

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
1	07000010	DJAELANI, ACHMAD K
2	07000027	DIARRASSOUBA, ADAMA	ADAM EXPRESS INC.
3	07000034	HAYNES, JAHMEL NATHANIEL
4	07000041	AKBAR, ALAWI
5	07000058	WASHINGTON, ALESSANDRO HENRI
6	07000065	WAGNER, ALEX MILES
7	07000072	HENDRICKS, ANDRE
8	07000089	WILLIS, ANDRE
9	07000096	PEREZ, ANDRES ALBERTO
10	07000102	PRATHER, ANNE
11	07000119	CHIARELLA, ANTHONY B
12	07000126	WALKER, ANTHONY CLEVE
13	07000133	SAVOY, ANTHONY MAURICE
14	07000140	SCHOENLEBER, BRIAN
15	07000157	EGBUFOAMA, CAIUS EMEKA
16	07000164	THOMAS, CHAD W.	CHAD THOMAS LLC	THOMAS TRANSPORTATION INC.
17	07000171	LONAS, CHARLES
18	07000188	MOORE, CLEVE D
19	07000195	EKARIUS, CHRIS	CM DELIVERY INC
20	07000201	WEBSTER, CODY S.	PAR DELIVERY INC.
21	07000218	GENTRY JR., CORY L.
22	07000225	ALTIZER, DALE
23	07000232	CRAWFORD, DAREN LEE
24	07000249	JOHNS, DAVID JEROME
25	07000256	MYRICK, DAVID
26	07000263	PRINGLE, DAVID
27	07000270	CHAPMAN SR., DAVID SCOTT
28	07000287	SHRINER, DAVID WAYNE
29	07000294	BOTTS, DANIEL GLENN	DELIVERED INC.
30	07000300	SANCHEZ, JOHN	DELIVERY MAN INC.
31	07000317	ALLEN, DONVILLE
32	07000324	MISS, DOUGLAS
33	07000331	ALLEN, DUANE C.
34	07000348	BUDACZ, DANIEL	DZB ENTERPRISES INC.
35	07000355	RODAS, JOSE ELIAS	E & L TRANSPORTATION INC.
36	07000362	GORDON, ELGIN	GORDON GROUND SERVICE INC.
37	07000379	MIDDLEKAUFF, EMILY REBECCA
38	07000386	GRAYTON, ERIC
39	07000393	LEARY, EVAN RAMSEY
40	07000409	MUNOZ, FRANK MERINO
41	07000416	METZ, GARY P.
42	07000423	TANNER, GARY
43	07000430	DANQUAH, GEORGE
44	07000447	MATOME, GUEVARA	GM TRANS SERVICE INC.
45	07000454	MASSEY, GRADY W.
46	07000461	MARSH, GREGORY ALONZO
47	07000478	HORST, GREGORY GEORGE

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
48	07000485	SCOLLARD, GREGORY
49	07000492	SHANKS, HARVEY
50	07000508	BELL, DARRYL ANTHONY	HB DELIVERY SERVICES LLC
51	07000515	LITTLE, HENRY
52	07000522	KINGUELEWA, FORTUNE YACINTHE	HIDDEN ARROW LLC
53	07000539	LA, KWON HO
54	07000546	OGBOLU, IFEOMA A
55	07000553	BARTUCCA, JAMES
56	07000560	BRASHEAR, JAMES
57	07000577	FIELDS, JAMES
58	07000584	THOMAS, JEFFREY ANTHONY
59	07000591	BRIGGS, JOHN M
60	07000607	DIGGS, JOHN
61	07000614	BODENCAK, JOHN EDWARD
62	07000621	MWANGI, JOHN MUIRU
63	07000638	TOMLINSON, JONATHAN
64	07000645	MEDINA, JORGE
65	07000652	AKINKUOWO, JOSEPH
66	07000669	CARPENTER, ANTONIO
67	07000676	RICHARDSON, BRYAN
68	07000683	BROWN, JASON WESLEY
69	07000690	CURLEY III, JOHN S.
70	07000706	KUHN JR., JAY
71	07000713	VIAMONT, JULIO
72	07000720	BAKARI, JULIUS Y	B & J DELIVERY SERVICES
73	07000737	ROACH, AARON
74	07000744	ARELLANO, ANIBAL RAMIRO
75	07000751	AYALA, ANIBAL ROSA
76	07000768	BURTON, ANTOINE MATHIAS
77	07000775	AUBER, ERNEST	AUBER DISTRIBUTOR INC.
78	07000782	CALDWELL, AUSTIN AARON
79	07000799	BOGGS, ROBERT ALLEN	B2BOGGS ENTERPRISES LLC	B2 BOGGS ENTERPRISES INC.
80	07000805	OGUNDEKO, BABALOLA SAMUEL
81	07000812	WRAY, BRANSON LANE
82	07000829	BROWN, BRUCE WAYNE	JJABEZ ENTERPRISE LLC
83	07000836	PLOWDEN, BRYAN K
84	07000843	CANALES, ELMER A.	CANALES DELIVERY INC
85	07000850	GIBSON, CARLTON
86	07000867	HOLLAND, CHRISTOPHER	CB&A HOLLAND INC
87	07000874	CHAVIS, CJETT DARRYL
88	07000881	AYU, COLIN
89	07000898	MCNEIL, COLONEL
90	07000904	COX, NORMAN	COX & COX CONTRACTING INC
91	07000911	THOMAS, CURBY KENDALL
92	07000928	BROWN, DAVE G	DAVID G. BROWN DELIVERY INC.
93	07000935	RAMADHANI, DAVID
94	07000942	HONG, DENNIS

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
95	07000959	SATTERWHITE, DEVALL W.
96	07000966	WHITE, EDWARD
97	07000973	QUINTANA, ENRICO CABRERA
98	07000980	BAUGHMAN, ERIC
99	07000997	GUEVARA, EUSEBIO ENRIQUE
100	07001000	BREWER, FRANK
101	07001017	SMITH, FRAZIER LAMONT
102	07001024	ELIOPOULOS, GEORGE WILLIAM
103	07001031	YOUNG, GORDON HASWELL
104	07001048	NULL, GREGORY W.
105	07001055	LEKANE, RICHARD	GUARANTEE DEL. EXP. INC.
106	07001062	SAHOUEGNON, GUY
107	07001079	HUANG, HUA HAO
108	07001086	GOE, RICHARD ASAFO-ADJEI
109	07001093	ONOCHIE, IKECHUKWU CHRISTOPHER	EXPRESS DELIVERY SERVICE
110	07001109	LARBI, ISAAC	AMERIPARKING & VALET CO INC
111	07001116	WILLIAMS, JAMES
112	07001123	HULL, JEFFREY
113	07001130	MCKENZIE, JEREMIAH MICHAEL
114	07001147	STEPHENS, JESSIE
115	07001154	RAMSARAN, JEVAN LALL	JLR ENTERPRISES
116	07001161	COLEMAN, JOHN
117	07001178	SANDERS, JOHN D.
118	07001185	LASEK, JOHN ROBERT
119	07001192	WROBEH, JOSEPH	AFJ INCORPORATED
120	07001208	MILLER, KANE J	KANE J MILLER LLC	KANE J. MILLER LLC	KANE J MILLER INC.
121	07001215	ONEILL, KEITH	KAO SERVICES LLC	KAO SERVICES INC
122	07001222	BRACKIN, KEITH
123	07001239	FITZPATRICK, KEITH EUGENE
124	07001246	CARROLL, KELVIN LAMONT
125	07001253	CROSS JR., KENNETH R
126	07001260	PURCHAS, KEVIN ANTHONY	KUM INC.
127	07001277	TAYLOR, KEVIN J	KPV DELIVERY SYSTEMS INC.
128	07001284	HOLDREN, KURT	KHOLD SERVICES INC
129	07001291	OGIDEH, KINGSLEY KELECHI
130	07001307	KISS, STEVEN	KISS DELIVERS INC.
131	07001314	DARGAN, KEVIN	KLK SERVICES INC.
132	07001321	MCILWAIN, KEITH	KMAC ENTERPRISES INC.
133	07001338	ABANKWA, KOFI
134	07001345	KORANTENG, KWESI
135	07001352	KABBA, LANSANA H.
136	07001369	COLBERT, LARRY M.
137	07001376	PERRIGOY, LARVENE ELIZABETH
138	07001383	TOTTY III, LAWRENCE R.
139	07001390	PANTINAKIS, NICK	LET LLC
140	07001406	MARTIN, ALEXIS ALEXANDER	LEXRO LLC
141	07001413	JAMES, LOIS L.

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
142	07001420	DEVER, LORI PAULETTE
143	07001437	BROWN, LUMUMBA
144	07001444	ANTONAKOS, JAMES	MAFISHES INCORPORATION
145	07001451	BRISBANE, MAGNUS
146	07001468	CLOPPER, MATTHEW OWEN
147	07001475	AGOSTINI, MAURICE
148	07001482	ORBACH, MENACHEM	ORBACH LLC
149	07001499	THOMPSON, MICHAEL ALAN
150	07001505	FLANNERY, MICHAEL
151	07001512	FORTUNE, MICHAEL
152	07001529	GILLIS, MICHAEL
153	07001536	HICKS, MICHAEL
154	07001543	HUICI, MICHAEL
155	07001550	JONES, MICHAEL MAURICE
156	07001567	COOK, MICHAEL PAUL	M P COOK INC.
157	07001574	SANDMEIER, MICHAEL
158	07001581	ASPER, MICHELLE
159	07001598	DAHL, MICHELLE
160	07001604	HANNA, MICHELLE RENEE
161	07001611	BANGS, JOHN	MIDDLE ATLANTIC SALES INC.
162	07001628	GILCHRIST, MILTON D.
163	07001635	VUKOV, MITCHELL
164	07001642	PESSU, EYIMOFE	MOFF PARCEL SERVICE INC
165	07001659	ALLEN, MONTGOMERY T.
166	07001666	JALANDONI III, MAXIMINO JALECO
167	07001673	KIEGEMINE, MUDRIKA K.
168	07001680	TRAVERS, NEVAL
169	07001697	VELAZQUEZ, NOEL
170	07001703	KESSLING, NORMAN
171	07001710	AVELAR, OSCAR R.
172	07001727	JAMES, KEVIN O	TEAM K JAMES INCORPORATED
173	07001734	CLEMMER, ROBERT P.	P&D DELIVERY INC.
174	07001741	GRANT, PATRICE M. A.
175	07001758	O'BRIEN, PAUL HENRY	PAUL O'BRIEN INC.
176	07001765	JONES, PERRY
177	07001772	BOEGEL, PETER JOHN	PJB DELIVERIES INC.
178	07001789	ROY, PHILLIP D.	GBU DELIVERY SERVICES INC.
179	07001796	LUNSFORD, RHONDA M.	POTOMAC COURIER SERVICES
180	07001802	POTTER, JAMES	POTTER ENTERPRISES INC.
181	07001819	FLAHERTY, RALPH JOSEPH
182	07001826	HAKIM, RASHAD
183	07001833	HARTLE JR., RAY HENRY	CHM TRUCKING CORPORATION	CHM TRUCKING INC
184	07001840	SOUSSI, REDOUANE
185	07001857	COATES, REGINALD
186	07001864	ISAAC, REGINALD D	J T I INC.
187	07001871	BLAKE, RENWICK
188	07001888	SALOM, RICARDO	LOYALTY SHIPMENT SERVICES INC.

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
189	07001895	MYERS, RICHARD DON
190	07001901	BACOT JR., RICHARD EARL
191	07001918	KOENIG, RICHARD
192	07001925	MURPHY, RICHARD L
193	07001932	BROOMFIELD, RICHARD S
194	07001949	TOPACHO, RICHARD
195	07001956	DULSKI SR., RICKY A.
196	07001963	VENABLE, ROBERT ANTHONY	VENABLE DELIVERY INC.
197	07001970	GUSTON, ROBERT
198	07001987	SMITH, ROBERT K.
199	07001994	STOTTLEMYER, ROBERT LEON
200	07002007	WILSON, ROBERT
201	07002014	CASLOW, RODNEY KENNETH
202	07002021	RAMOS, RODOLFO	RAMOS PACKAGE DELIVERY INC.
203	07002038	ATTAMAH, ROLAND
204	07002045	HAWKINS, RONALD KENNETH
205	07002052	HILTON, RAHMAN	RSH LLC.	EFFICIENT COURIERS INC
206	07002069	SCOTT, RUDYARD KIPLING
207	07002076	FUQUA, RYAN THOMPSON
208	07002083	SPOONER, RYAN MARSHALL
209	07002090	KAMARA, SANTIGIE
210	07002106	CORDWAY, SEAN TIMOTHY
211	07002113	MCCLAIN JR., SHERMAN
212	07002120	SHOVER, ROY LEE	SHOVER INC
213	07002137	SIMON, SHISHNIASHVLI
214	07002144	DANIELS JR., WILBUR LEROY	SLEINAD ENTERPRISES INC.
215	07002151	MAHADEO, NARISH	SMALL TREASURES INC.
216	07002168	VODI, SMITH KWAME OLIVER
217	07002175	AGAFITEIRADU, SORIN TRAIAN
218	07002182	COURTRIER, STEVE
219	07002199	HORANT, STEVE
220	07002205	JANGANO, TENDEKAY
221	07002212	MEAGHER, THEODORE
222	07002229	TURNIPSEED, THOMAS
223	07002236	BLAIR, TIM FRANCIS
224	07002243	BRYANT, TIMOTHY A.	TAB TRUCKING INC.
225	07002250	WOMACK, TIMOTHY JEROME
226	07002267	LATONA, TRACY
227	07002274	PATTON, TYRONE	TYRONE PATTON TRUCKING INC.
228	07002281	HOPWOOD, WALTER
229	07002298	TEEL, WARRACE
230	07002304	WILLS, WELVIN
231	07002311	ROWE, WILLIAM A.
232	07002328	EVANS III, WILLIAM F
233	07002335	IRWIN, WILLIAM
234	07002342	SEWORDOR, WILLIAM KWAKU	SEWORD INCORPORATED
235	07002359	WHEELER, WILLAIM L	ZJK INC

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
236	07002366	BRIGGS JR., WILLIAM PERCELL
237	07002373	STEVENSON, WILLIAM
238	07002380	WHITTAKER, WILLIAM JOSEPH	B.A.L.T. SERVICES INC.
239	07002397	WAFER, DALE ERIC	XPEDITE-IT LLC
240	07002403	BEST, CHRISTINO ZAPATA	C & T EXPRESS DELIVERY SERVICE
241	07002410	BENTLEY, CRAIG	C&C TRANSPORT SYSTEM
242	07002427	BRAXTON, CHARLES
243	07002434	ARMSTRONG, DAVID J.
244	07002441	WINCHESTER, DAVID W.
245	07002458	COLE, DEREK BILL EMSLEY. CHRISTIAN
246	07002465	DILLON, ERIC
247	07002472	JENKINS, GREGORY
248	07002489	OSENI, HAKEEM ABIODUN
249	07002496	PATRICK, RICHARD L.	RAD DELIVERY TEAM, INC
250	07002502	GILLS, JOHN B.	J&P IND. BS. SVCS. INC.
251	07002519	ROJAS, GERARDO J	JAIRUS EXPRESS LLC	R & C EXPRESS SERVICES INC
252	07002526	PAYTON, JAMES E.
253	07002533	BERNADO, JEANYVON
254	07002540	WEBER, JIM
255	07002557	BUCKLEY III, JOHN JOSEPH	JR XPRESS INC
256	07002564	MACKLIN JR., JOHN WENDELL	OUTSOURCE DELIVERY SERVICE INC.
257	07002571	CLARK, JOSHUA
258	07002588	HEW, KIRK ANTHONY
259	07002595	MANSFIELD, MARK D
260	07002601	HAWKINS, MATTHEW J.
261	07002618	MCINTOSH, DERRICK ODELL	MCINTOSH DEL. & TRANS. INC.
262	07002625	MATTEI, NEIL
263	07002632	KOINANGE, NICHOLAS	NIKOAL ENTERPRISES INC	SKYY SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
264	07002649	OBRIEN, SHAUN PAUL	OBRIEN TRANSPORTING INC.
265	07002656	PALCHO, EUGENE S.	PALCHO ENTERPRISES
266	07002663	TAYLOR, PATRICK
267	07002670	KUMCHU, PATRICK VUYUGHO
268	07002687	PEELS, STEPHEN C.	SC PEELS INC.
269	07002694	BIVENS, TRACY ALAN
270	07002700	RICHARDS, VICKIE
271	07002717	ZEVALLOS, VICTOR
272	07002724	BARILL, VINCENT R
273	07002731	CARPENTER, JASON	W S N H INCORPORATED
274	07002748	HOLEMAN, WAYNE
275	07002755	MACOMBER, WILLIAM C.
276	07002762	GOSWICK, WILLIAM J.
277	07002779	OH, YEONG
278	07002786	SENGUEP, YVEVINCENT
279	07002793	ETOUNDI, ALAIN BLAISE	ABE DELIVERY INC.
280	07002809	JAMES, ARTHUR	ARSHA DELIVERY INC.	JACKS N DELIVERY INC
281	07002816	UBAO, ATHUMANI
282	07002823	YANG, BEN

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
283	07002830	MULLI, BENJAMIN
284	07002847	TRENT, BERNARD ANTHONY-JEROME
285	07002854	BITTNER III, RUSSELL E	BITTNER ENTERPRISES INC.
286	07002861	CLUSTER, BRIAN JOSEPH
287	07002878	MEYERS, BRIAN
288	07002885	CAUDILL, MARSHALL K.	CAUDILL ENTERPRISES INC.
289	07002892	GLEE, CHARLES
290	07002908	OKOLI, CHRISTIAN ONYEMA
291	07002915	FOSTER, CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN
292	07002922	HALL, DARRYL A.	DJ & C HALL DELIVERY INC.
293	07002939	WASHINGTON, DEWAYNE ANTHONY	WASHINGTON, DEWAYNE ANTHONY	DSD INC.
294	07002946	DIALLO, SALIOU	EXPRESS DELIVERY SERVICE	DIALLO SERVICES INC.
295	07002953	COLLIER, EDWIN B.
296	07002960	AVILA, EFRAIN	A&A HOME DELIVERIES INC
297	07002977	SALLEY, ELIJAH	EES ENTERPRISES LLC	EES ENTERPRISES INC
298	07002984	BENNETT, GARY	ELITE HOME DELIVERY INC.
299	07002991	MCKELVEY, JOHN	EMERALD DISTRIBUTION CO.
300	07003004	STANLEY, ERIC
301	07003011	JOHNSON, ERNEST
302	07003028	FUSARO, FELIPE SOARES	FMF ENTERPRISES INC
303	07003035	BODDOM, FRANCIS ANING
304	07003042	PORTER, FRANK
305	07003059	ROGERS, FRANKLIN G.
306	07003066	LEWIS, FREDERICK PATRICE
307	07003073	LANEBLAKE, GARY EUGENE
308	07003080	SOHL, GARY
309	07003097	ERISAT, GEORGE HOWARD	AEROMAX LLC
310	07003103	NAMINGONA, GEORGE
311	07003110	NEMBHARD, GERALD G.
312	07003127	PAZ, ITALO	GLOBAL PACKAGES LLC
313	07003134	SMITH, GORDON ROYCE
314	07003141	DYE, GREGORY
315	07003158	VELASCO, HAROLD
316	07003165	OUERDRAOGO, HENRI
317	07003172	LIESKE IV, HENRY EMIL	HENRY E. LIESKE IV INC.
318	07003189	CLAYTON, STANLEY ALLEN	SAC TRUCKING, INC
319	07003196	BRASWELL, JAMES E	BRASWELL TRANSPORT INC
320	07003202	MCNAIR JR., JAMES C.
321	07003219	KANYINGI, JAMES
322	07003226	SERIG, JEFFREY
323	07003233	AMIHERE, JOHN	ALPHA INVESTMENT CLUB	JODELL INCORPORATED
324	07003240	BRIGHT, JOHN
325	07003257	WEIR, JOSEPH LUDWIG
326	07003264	STOKES, JOSEPH
327	07003271	WILLIAMS, JUSTIN
328	07003288	STEVENSON, KARL A
329	07003295	WALL, KEITH JEROME

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
330	07003301	MATIVO, KENNETH N
331	07003318	PARTLOW, KIRK EDWIN
332	07003325	NAHA, LEHAUTYLAIT MICHEL
333	07003332	HARRIS, LENARD
334	07003349	BURGESS, LEO CHARLES
335	07003356	BAER, LORNE
336	07003363	MILIO, LOUIS	RIDE ON TRUCKING INC
337	07003370	RAIDT, MARK
338	07003387	TILLMAN, MARSHALL CHAD
339	07003394	DARBY, MARTIN JAMES
340	07003400	INGRAM, MAURICE P	WILLING INCORPORATED
341	07003417	VALENTINE, MICAHEL E.
342	07003424	ADGER, MICHAEL
343	07003431	CATANGUI, MICHAEL CRUZ
344	07003448	NELSON, MICHAEL KRIETE	NEL-EX
345	07003455	MURPHY, MICHAEL
346	07003462	WANKEL, MICHAEL
347	07003479	POKU, NANA	J N P TRANSPORTATION INC.
348	07003486	DUNLEAVY, NICOLE
349	07003493	BLAND, NORMAN DAWSON
350	07003509	BON, JOSEPH MATTHEW
351	07003516	DIALLO, OUSMANE
352	07003523	GRANT, PERNELL
353	07003530	ANTWI, PRINCE
354	07003547	GBADAMOSI, RAZAQ
355	07003554	LEGETTE, REGINALD
356	07003561	FITZPATRICK, NEIL	RELIABLE DELIVERY INC.
357	07003578	JOHNSON, RICHARD
358	07003585	AFARIMINTA, ROBERT
359	07003592	BRADLEY, ROBERT
360	07003608	JUDD, ROBERT EARL
361	07003615	EASTER, ROGER ALLEN
362	07003622	QUAYE, SAMUEL
363	07003639	YEBOAH, SAMUEL
364	07003646	ANDERSON, SEAN C.
365	07003653	CLINE, SEAN
366	07003660	OBAZUAYE, SEMI O.	SEMOLA SYSTEM INC	COVENANT DELIVERY EXPRESS INC
367	07003677	COLEMAN, SHANNON NICOLE
368	07003684	SMITH, STEPHEN R.
369	07003691	WESCOTT, THOMAS
370	07003707	QUEEN, THURLOW MARCELLUS
371	07003714	CANAVAN, TOM
372	07003721	SOWOLE, TOMMY
373	07003738	HERRERA, TONY
374	07003745	RICHARD, TREVOR
375	07003752	MAYSON, TUAN
376	07003769	JEFFERSON, VASHTI SHERADA

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
377	07003776	DICKERSON, WAYNE
378	07003783	GORDON, JOHN ANTHONY
379	07003790	ZAID, ABDULNUR
380	07003806	TAYLOR, JOHN	AFAB INC.
381	07003813	SHIRLEY, ALAN D
382	07003820	WHITE, ALFAGO D.
383	07003837	ALLNUTT III, JOHN BENJAMIN	ALLNUT DELIVERY AND SUPPORT SERVICES LLC
384	07003844	VAUGHAN, ALVESTER RANDALL
385	07003851	BRYANT, ANDRE
386	07003868	BURT, ANDRE F
387	07003875	DAVIS, ANTHONY
388	07003882	PEAKE, ANTHONY
389	07003899	WELLS, ANTHONY THOMAS
390	07003905	JACOBS, ANTHONY VINCENT
391	07003912	AMEGEE, ATSOU AYAWO SERGE
392	07003929	SJOFJAN, AUDEY YARDLEY ANWAR
393	07003936	NJINJOH, AUGUSTINE NUMBOUSSI
394	07003943	HALE JR., LEWEY BOYD	B. REYNOLDS HALE INC.
395	07003950	JARMON JR., DENARD	BIG BRA TRUCKING INC.
396	07003967	STECKEL, BRADLEY ALLAN
397	07003974	GROFF, BRADY
398	07003981	FRANKLIN, BRENDAN
399	07003998	SHIMER, BRIAN
400	07004001	INGRAM, ANDREW J.	BROCO INC.
401	07004018	GBANE, ABDOU	ABDOU GBANE DBA CHEETAH TRANSPORT	CHEETAH TRANSPORT INC
402	07004025	FRIES, CHRIS	BESTBOYZ INC
403	07004032	BROOKS, CHRISTINA LYNN
404	07004049	CLEVER, CURTIS	CLEVERS DELIVERY SERVICE INC.
405	07004056	BALL, CLIFTON
406	07004063	DARDEN, CORY
407	07004070	JOHNSON, DAMIAN QUAMEY
408	07004087	DEMPSEY, DANIEL
409	07004094	WILLIAMS, DANIEL ANTAL
410	07004100	CHAMBERS, DARIN
411	07004117	WEGNER, DAVID BRYAN
412	07004124	BRAUN, DAVID CHRISTIAN
413	07004131	HANSSON, DEANNA
414	07004148	SALES JR., DELFIN G
415	07004155	YANG, DEREK QINGGUAN
416	07004162	HAWES, DERRICK ANTHONY
417	07004179	EATON, DONNIE ALLEN
418	07004186	DANIELS, DORA
419	07004193	SWISHER, DOUG
420	07004209	BRUNCLIK, DOUGLAS ROBERT
421	07004216	CULLUM, DWAYNE LYNDELL
422	07004223	JOHNSON, ERIC	EJ DELIVERY SERVICE INC
423	07004230	SEY, FRANKLIN K

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
424	07004247	GELDMACHER, MATTHEW S.	GELDMACHER TRUCKING LLC	DEFEX INC
425	07004254	GEORGE, GERWIN LAWRENCE
426	07004261	ARMSTRONG, CHRISTOPHER	GET IT TO YOU LLC	GET IT TO YOU INC.
427	07004278	OIKERHE, JACK ANDREW GOODWILL	GOLDEN EXPRESS
428	07004285	STEVENSON, JOHN T	JAE ENTERPRISES LLC
429	07004292	JACKSON, JAMES
430	07004308	BEELER, JASON
431	07004315	WALTON, ROBERT JASON	JWALS ENTERPRISE INC.
432	07004322	BYDUME, DEWAYNE	JAY COURT INC
433	07004339	BROWN, SCOTT M	JDS DELIVERIES INC
434	07004346	PREVOST, JEFFREY
435	07004353	WANG, JIMMY	PILOT INTERNATIONAL INC.	3 G TRANSPORTATION INC.
436	07004360	MENE, JOSEPH ORITSEMINOMI
437	07004377	CUSH, JOHN J.
438	07004384	MEIERS, JOHN M.
439	07004391	GAY III, ROBERT FREDERICK	JOHNNY'S WILD HONEY INC.
440	07004407	WADE, JOSEPH
441	07004414	ALLEN, JOSEPH WARDELL
442	07004421	HENDERSON, KEVIN
443	07004438	MCFADDEN, KIP DARELL
444	07004445	DAMPSON, KWESI AMU
445	07004452	MUIR, LARRY	L&L TRUCKING INC.
446	07004469	JONES, LARON JAVAR
447	07004476	RAVENELL JR., LARRY DEAN
448	07004483	WHESTONE, JAY	LIGHTENING TRANSPORT INC
449	07004490	PETERSON, LUCIUS PLAYER
450	07004506	BLAGBURN, LYNN ANTHONY
451	07004513	AMIWERO, MARTINS O
452	07004520	BEAVERS, MATTHEW
453	07004537	DAODU, MICHAEL
454	07004544	CCHALMERS, MICHAEL DIMETRE	DIMYTRUIS 69 DELIVERY SERVICE LLC
455	07004551	WHALEY, MICHAEL SCOTT
456	07004568	BOATENG, NANA KWAME	SMART DELIVERY INC
457	07004575	AJOSE, OLABISI OLAKUNLE
458	07004582	ADETUNJI, OMOTOSHO
459	07004599	VARGAS, PEDRO	PEDRO SV INCORPORATED
460	07004605	WRIGHT, PHIL
461	07004612	BRADLEY III, RALPH CARMELLO
462	07004629	STEVENS, RENARD
463	07004636	BARRON, ROBERT JOHN
464	07004643	PRICE, RONALD E.
465	07004650	LINTHICUM, RONALD EUGENE
466	07004667	HALL, RONALD K
467	07004674	MCKAIN, RONALD
468	07004681	BABANI, SABIR
469	07004698	THIELMAN, DANIEL L.	SANDY FEET INC
470	07004704	BROHIRI, SEVERIN

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
471	07004711	MAJEDI, SEYED A
472	07004728	MOORE SR., SHAH SHARRIEFF
473	07004735	SHAZOR, CARL	SHAZOR ENTERPRISES LLC	SHAZOR CORPORATION
474	07004742	LEGGETT, STEPHEN HENRY
475	07004759	CONNER, STEVE
476	07004766	COONEY, STEVEN B.
477	07004773	SONNON, STEVE
478	07004780	JONES, MARK S.	TEAM RPS INC.
479	07004797	DAVIS SR., DEWAYNE	TRIPLE D TRUCKING CO. LLC
480	07004803	BOX, TYRONE
481	07004810	SHORTER, VALERIE AMELIA
482	07004827	BRISCOE, WESLEY
483	07004834	TEKIE, YISHAK
484	07004841	ZURKAN, NICHOLAS T.	Z-MAN EXPRESS INCORPORATED
485	07004858	MCAFEE, DAVID	D&G EXPRESS LLC
486	07004865	FRANCIS, EARL JR	EARL B INCORPORATED
487	07004872	FREY, SCOTT ERIC	J & S LINEHAUL INC.
488	07004889	BARTLE, JAYE MILTON	KINGDOM TRUCKING INC.	KINGDOM TRUCKING, INC
489	07004896	BROWN, SCOTT M	JDS DELIVERIES INC
490	07004902	CURTIS SR., JAMES A
491	07004919	CULLOM, ANTOINE LAMOND	COMPLETE PACKAGE
492	07004926	RUSSELL, MILTON	M&B ENTERPRISES LLC
493	07004933	MACDONALD, MARK CAREY	MACDONALD DELIVERY INC.
494	07004940	CISSE, OUSMANE	OURANI INC.
495	07004957	HEALEY, PHILIP A.
496	07004964	ANDREWS, ROBERT C.
497	07004971	WALDEN, BARON V.
498	07004988	BARNHART, ROBERT EUGENE	R.E.B. ENTERPRISES INC.	R E B ENTERPRISES INC
499	07004995	DOCKERY, STEVE DONALD
500	07005008	COULIBALY, TIEBA
501	07005015	CAMPBELL, BRIAN
502	07005022	O'BRIEN, CRAIG	COB ENTERPRISES INC.
503	07005039	KIBUNJA, CYRUS
504	07005046	DAVIS, RONALD LEE
505	07005053	GILLETTE, JOHN MICHAEL
506	07005060	MONAGHAN, SHAWN
507	07005077	MIDDLETON, BRIAN	BRICA INC.
508	07005084	HARRIS, WALLACE	A&B MANAGEMENT INC.
509	07005091	KARUGA, NICHOLAS
510	07005107	DUNCAN, VICENTE A	VINCENTE DUNCANS TRANSPORTATION INC.
511	07005114	HAGLER, LEWIS
512	07005121	BONDZIE, KWESI A	MARANATHA GROUP INC
513	07005138	BONDZIE, KWESI A	MARANATHA GROUP INC
514	07005145	REULING, JOHN
515	07005152	JOSON, FRANCISCOJR GARCIA	SANJO INC.
516	07005169	WATKINS, MICHAEL OLIVER
517	07005176	CHESSON, DEMOND

Count	RustID	Contractor Name	Company Name 1	Company Name 2	Company Name 3
518	07005183	MHINA, STEPHANO J.
519	07005190	HOWARD, JAMES	KINGSTON J ENTERPRISES INC.
520	07005206	BAKER, EDDIE ISAIAH
521	07005213	MAZONGE, CARTIAS EDWARD
522	07005220	ROEBUCK, KELVIN
523	07005237	BOND, THOMAS
524	07005244	DAVIS, RONALD LEE
525	07005251	SLAGLE JR., KENNETH S.	SLAGLE ENTERPRISES
526	07005268	HOLMES, VINCENT
527	07005275	PORTER, AL
528	07005282	PAYNE II, WILLIAM GEORGE
529	07005299	BROWN JR., ROBERT LOUIS
530	07005305	SIMPSON, ROBERT K.
531	07005312	ESPIRITU JR., LAMBERTO RAMOS
532	07005329	HUFFMAN, BRET ASHLEY
533	07005336	JOE, VINCENT