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BENJAMIN HAILE, OSB #040660
ben@portlandlawcollective.com
Portland Law Collective, LLP
1130 SW Morrison St, Suite 407
Portland, OR 97205
Telephone: (503) 228-1889
Facsimile: (503) 223-4518

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF OREGON
PORTLAND DIVISION

DANICA LOVE BROWN, individually and
on behalf of all others similarly situated,
Plaintiff,
v.
STORED VALUE CARDS, INC. (d/b/a NUMI
FINANCIAL); and CENTRAL NATIONAL
BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, ENID,
OKLAHOMA,

Case No.: 3:15-cv-1370-__

COMPLAINT
DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

Defendants.

Plaintiff Danica Love Brown (“Plaintiff” or “Ms. Brown”), on behalf of herself and all
others similarly situated, brings this Class Action Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial against
Defendants Stored Value Cards, Inc. (“Stored Value Cards”) and Central National Bank and
Trust Company, Enid, Oklahoma (“Central National Bank”) (together, “Defendants”). The
following allegations are based on personal knowledge as to Plaintiff’s conduct and are made on
information and belief as to all other matters based upon the undersigned counsels’
investigations.

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INTRODUCTION
1.

Plaintiff Danica Love Brown was arrested by Portland Police in November, 2014, during

a peaceful protest of a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the
shooting death of Michael Brown. Ms. Brown was charged with interfering with a peace officer
and second-degree disorderly conduct. She was jailed for 8 hours at the Multnomah County Jail.
Multnomah County Jail confiscated approximately $30 in cash from Ms. Brown when they
booked her. When they released her 8 hours later they did not give her back her cash. Instead,
Multnomah County Jail gave her a prepaid debit card. The card was issued by Defendants
Stored Value Cards and Central National Bank and bore the insignia “NUMI Card.”
2.

Ms. Brown would rather have received back her cash, but Multnomah County Jail forced

the prepaid card upon her without presenting any alternatives to her. That prepaid card required
Ms. Brown to pay fees to Defendants in order to access her own money.
3.

Ms. Brown’s experience is illustrative of the experience of thousands of other individuals

who have received NUMI Cards across the country.
4.

Ms. Brown represented a captive consumer for Defendants and Defendants took full

advantage of Ms. Brown’s complete lack of bargaining power by requiring Ms. Brown to pay
various exorbitant, unreasonable fees to retrieve her money. Of course, Ms. Brown would never
have agreed to receive her money in the form of the extremely expensive NUMI Card if she had
been given any choice or bargaining power.
5.

But, like the thousands of other pretrial detainees and former inmates that Defendants

charge to spend their own money, Ms. Brown had no choice or bargaining power. Ms. Brown
and the putative Class represent an involuntary market where consumers have no choice or say in
whether they have to use prepaid debit cards to access their own money.
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Defendants have engaged in a pattern of unlawful, deceptive, unfair and unconscionable

profiteering and self-dealing with respect to the release cards that they forced upon individuals
who are released from jails and prisons. In so doing, Defendants have also violated the
Electronic Funds Transfer Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1693 et. seq. (“EFTA”).
7.

As such, Ms. Brown files this class action lawsuit to redress injuries that she and a

nationwide class of individuals have suffered and continue to suffer as a result of Defendants’
practices of forcing release cards upon pretrial detainees and former inmates that carry
unreasonable and excessive fees that most consumers would never agree to if given a choice.
THE PARTIES
8.

Plaintiff Danica Love Brown lives in and is a citizen of Portland, Oregon.

9.

Defendant Stored Value Cards, Inc. is a California corporation that does business under

various trade names, including “Futura Card Services” and “NUMI Financial.”
10.

Defendant Central National Bank & Trust Company, Enid, Oklahoma is an Oklahoma-

based national bank with approximately $600 million in assets. Central National Bank has
contracted with Stored Value Cards to issue prepaid debit cards to inmates being released from
prisons and jails nationwide.
JURISDICTION and VENUE
11.

This Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this action pursuant to

28 U.S.C. § 1332(d) insofar as the amount in controversy exceeds $5 million and the Class is
comprised of at least some persons who are citizens of states different from Defendants.
12.

This Court also has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this action because this is a

civil action arising under the laws of the United States, namely, the Electronic Funds Transfer

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Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1693 et. seq. This Court may exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state law
claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1367.
13.

Venue is proper in this District pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1391 because each Defendant is

subject to personal jurisdiction in this District and a substantial part of the events or omissions
giving rise to the claim occurred within this District.
14.

Pursuant to § 646.638(2) of the Oregon Unfair Trade Practices Act, Plaintiff has mailed a

copy of this Complaint to Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum at the Oregon Department of
Justice, and attaches hereto as Exhibit A an affidavit to that effect.
FACTS
15.

Over 650,000 prisoners are released from state and federal prisons annually. Local jails

nationwide process an estimated 11.6 million people each year. The vast majority of these
individuals are released from custody shortly after they are booked. Most of the people released
from jails are never convicted of any crime.
16.

Traditionally, when individuals were released from jails, prisons, and other detention

facilities, their jailers returned to them in the form of cash or check any cash that the jailers
confiscated at booking. The jailers also traditionally returned to them in the form of cash or
check any monies that had accrued in the individual’s prisoner trust account.
17.

In many jurisdictions now, however, instead of receiving their account balances in cash

or check upon release, prisoners are automatically given their account balances in the form of
prepaid debit cards, or prison release cards. According to a recent Association of State
Correctional Administrators survey, government agencies across the United States that handle
prisoner funds are increasingly using prepaid debit cards to return personal funds to former
prisoners. A majority of these agencies reported that a fee is charged when using the debit card
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to get cash from a bank. Several of the agencies indicated that they have been using some sort of
release debit card for more than five years.1
18.

Defendants market and distribute prepaid cards to jails and prisons around the country.

19.

Stored Value Cards contracts with third party commissary companies and jail

management software providers, who, in turn, contract with detention facilities to provide
prepaid card programs to various city, county, and state agencies.
20.

Stored Value Cards also contracts with Central National Bank as an issuing bank for its

cards, and MasterCard as the payment network sponsor.
21.

According to the NUMI Financial website, Defendants promise to “allow[] facilities to

go completely cashless” and enable jails and prisons to “[e]liminate cash and checks.”
22.

The card is activated and ready for immediate use when the consumer receives it.

Consumers who receive the card do not even assign their own PIN to the card. A jail
administrator does that.
23.

Multnomah County Jail began to distribute NUMI prison release cards in or about 2014,

after the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office signed a four-year contract with Securus
Technologies, Inc. Under that contract with Securus, the Sheriff’s Office implemented the debit
card system run by Stored Value Cards.
24.

Defendants provide the debit card system at no cost to the County.

25.

The County agreed to release individuals with as little as $0.01 with a NUMI Card.

1

See
http://www.asca.net/system/assets/attachments/7555/Use%20of%20Debit%20Cardsformatted%2
0Sheet1.pdf?1412189576 (last visited July 14, 2015); see also
http://www.asca.net/system/assets/attachments/7553/Use%20of%20Debit%20Card%20for%20In
mate%20Release%20Funds%20Survey.pdf?1412189540 (last visited July 14, 2015).
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Multnomah County Jail has over 1,300 beds and processes an estimated 30,000 people

annually.
27.

These release cards are extremely profitable for Defendants, who charge their unwitting

and unwilling customers exorbitant fees to possess and/or use the cards.
28.

Defendants charge some consumers a $5.95 “monthly” service charge, which actually

occurs only 5 days after an individual receives the card, not after the consumer has kept a card
balance for at least a month.
29.

Defendants charge other consumers a $3.50 “weekly” service charge, which actually

occurs only 2 days after an individual receives the card, not after the consumer has kept a card
balance for at least a week.
30.

Defendants also charge a $9.95 card balance refund/paper check fee, which occurs when

the cardholder requests account closure. Therefore, should a consumer wish to not use the card
and receive a check, instead, it will cost her $9.95 to do so.
31.

Defendants also charge a
a. $2.95 ATM withdrawal fee (which is in addition to any surcharges that the ATM
operator may assess);
b. $4.95 international ATM withdrawal fee (which is in addition to any surcharges
that the ATM operator may assess);
c. $4.95 bank cash advance fee;
d. $1.00 ATM balance inquiry fees;
e. $1.50 ATM international balance inquiry fee;
f. $1.95 declined ATM transaction fee;
g. $0.50 automated customer service inquiry fee (the first one is free);

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h. $3.95 live customer service inquiry fee (the first one is free);
i. $3.00 paper statement fee; and a
j. $0.95 denial of transaction fee.
32.

Defendants can charge and collect these exorbitant fees because their exclusive contracts

with state and local agencies shield them from competitive market forces.
33.

Individuals who are released from Multnomah County Jail have no choice but to accept a

NUMI Card in lieu of receiving the return of their own money in the form of cash or check.
They do not voluntarily engage the company, enroll in the program or take any affirmative steps
to form any contractual relationship with Stored Value Cards, Central National Bank, or
MasterCard.
Ms. Brown’s Experience
34.

Ms. Brown resides in Portland.

35.

Ms. Brown was an adjunct faculty member at Metropolitan State College in Denver,

Colorado, and is a PhD student in the doctoral program in social work at Portland State
University. Her area of research focuses on understanding how the worldview of indigenous
peoples can contribute to the development of behavioral health interventions and programs for
urban Native American youth.
36.

Ms. Brown was arrested by Portland Police on or about November 25, 2014, at

approximately 7:00 p.m.
37.

At the time of her arrest, Ms. Brown, along with hundreds of others, was participating in

a peaceful protest march through downtown Portland, after a Missouri grand jury declined to
indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown.

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Ms. Brown was charged with interfering with a peace officer and second-degree

disorderly conduct. Those charges were ultimately dismissed by the prosecution.
39.

Ms. Brown was booked at the Multnomah County Jail.

40.

Ms. Brown was released at approximately 2:00 a.m. on November 26, 2014.

41.

At the time of her arrest, Ms. Brown had approximately $30 in cash on her person.

42.

Multnomah County Jail confiscated Ms. Brown’s cash when they booked her.

43.

Although she was only in jail overnight, Multnomah County Jail did not give Ms. Brown

back her cash when they released her. Instead, Multnomah County Jail gave Ms. Brown a
preloaded NUMI Card, which Defendants issued.
44.

Ms. Brown’s NUMI Card had a balance of $30.97, which represented the cash that

Multnomah County Jail confiscated from her.
45.

Ms. Brown was never asked whether she wished to receive her monies in cash or in the

form of a preloaded debit card for which she would be assessed various exorbitant fees. Ms.
Brown never assented to receiving the card instead of her cash and never assented to the terms to
any contract with Defendants. Ms. Brown was not given any opportunity to reject the card.
Indeed, Ms. Brown had no choice but to accept the card instead of her cash; Ms. Brown could
not meaningfully object to receiving the preloaded debit card. Ms. Brown’s receipt of her cash
in the form of the NUMI Card was completely and utterly involuntary.
46.

Between November 26, 2014, and December 3, 2014, Ms. Brown used the Card to make

five small purchases.

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Although Ms. Brown had received the Card only 5 days earlier, Defendants charged her a

$5.95 “monthly” fee on December 1, 2014.2
48.

Defendants also charged Ms. Brown a $0.95 service charge on December 1, 2014.

49.

As such, in order to spend the $30.97 that the jail confiscated, Ms. Brown had to pay

$6.90, or 22 percent of the monies the jail took from her.
50.

Had Ms. Brown chosen to not use the Card and to close her account and receive a check,

Defendants would have charged her $9.95 to do so, or 32 percent of the monies the jail took from
her.
CLASS CLAIMS
51.

Defendants have engaged in the same conduct with respect to many other individuals

across the United States.
52.

Ms. Brown brings this action on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated

pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(a), 23(b)(2) and 23(b)(3) on behalf of the following nationwide
classes:
a. All persons who, upon release from a jail, prison, or detention facility, were
provided with a prepaid card issued by Stored Value Cards, Inc., or its affiliates,
and Central National Bank and Trust Company, Enid, Oklahoma, or its affiliates,
that contained the balance of funds that had been previously confiscated from the

2

The subcontractor agreement negotiated between Multnomah County and Stored Value
Cards demonstrates that the County asked Stored Value Cards to change its practice of
charging the monthly service fee from 5 calendar days after receipt of the card to 5
business days. Stored Value Cards agreed, but never implemented that change.
Therefore, although Stored Value Card’s subcontractor agreement with Multnomah
County establishes that the $5.95 monthly fee will occur five business days after the
consumer receives the NUMI Card, in Ms. Brown’s case, she received the card the day
before the start of the 2014 Thanksgiving holiday, and Stored Value Cards charged her
the monthly fee two business days later.
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person at the time of booking and paid a card fee in conjunction with the use or
maintenance of the card. (“Class 1”)
b. All persons who, upon release from a jail, prison, or detention facility, were
provided with a prepaid card issued by Stored Value Cards, Inc., or its affiliates,
and Central National Bank and Trust Company, Enid, Oklahoma, or its affiliates,
that contained the balance of funds that had been previously held in that person’s
inmate trust account and paid a card fee in conjunction with the use or
maintenance of the card. (“Class 2”)
53.

Additionally, Plaintiff seeks to represent the following Oregon subclasses (“Oregon

Subclasses”):
a. All persons who, upon release from a jail, prison, or detention facility in Oregon,
were provided with a prepaid card issued by Stored Value Cards, Inc., or its
affiliates, and Central National Bank and Trust Company, Enid, Oklahoma, or its
affiliates, that contained the balance of funds that had been previously confiscated
from the person at the time of booking and paid a card fee in conjunction with the
use or maintenance of the card. (“Oregon Subclass 1”)
b. All persons who, upon release from a jail, prison, or detention facility in Oregon,
were provided with a prepaid card issued by Stored Value Cards, Inc., or its
affiliates, and Central National Bank and Trust Company, Enid, Oklahoma, or its
affiliates, that contained the balance of funds that had been previously held in that
person’s inmate trust account and paid a card fee in conjunction with the use or
maintenance of the card. (“Oregon Subclass 2”)
(Class 1, Class 2, and the Oregon Subclasses are referred to herein as the “Class.”)

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Plaintiff reserves the right to modify or amend the definition of the proposed Class before

the Court determines whether certification is appropriate and as the Court may otherwise allow.
55.

The Class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable. Due to the nature

of the commerce involved, the members of the Class are geographically dispersed throughout the
United States. While the exact number of Class members is in the sole possession, custody and
control of Defendants, Plaintiff believes that there are well in excess of 100 members.
56.

Common questions of law and fact exist as to all members of the Class and predominate

over any questions solely affecting individual members of the Class. Questions of law and fact
common to the Class include but are not limited to whether:
a. The prison release cards that the Class received were unsolicited electronic
transfer cards;
b. Defendants structured their prepaid card program to maximize the number and
amount of fees they collected from the Class;
c. Whether Stored Value Cards and/or Central National Bank were unjustly enriched
through their prepaid card policies and practices;
d. Whether Stored Value Cards and/or Central National Bank converted money
belonging to the Class through their prepaid card policies and practices;
e. Whether Stored Value Cards and/or Central National Bank subjected the Class to
standardized policies and practices that were unconscionable and/or amounted to
unlawful trade practices;
f. Whether and what form(s) of relief should be afforded to the Class; and
g. Whether the Class has suffered damages as a result of Defendants’ actions, and, if
so, the measure and amount of such damages.

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Plaintiff’s claims are typical of the claims of the other members of the Class she seeks to

represent. Defendants’ practices have targeted and affected all members of the Class in a similar
manner, i.e., they have all sustained damages arising out of Defendants’ practices.
58.

Plaintiff will fully and adequately protect the interests of all members of the Class.

Plaintiff has retained counsel experienced in both complex class action and consumer fraud
litigation. Plaintiff has no interests which are adverse to or in conflict with the interests of the
other members of the Class.
59.

A class action is superior to other available methods for the fair and efficient adjudication

of this controversy since joinder of all class members is impracticable. The prosecution of
separate actions by individual members of the Class would impose heavy burdens upon the
courts, and would create a risk of inconsistent or varying adjudications of the questions of law
and fact common to the Class. A class action, on the other hand, would achieve substantial
economies of time, effort, and expense, and would assure uniformity of decision with respect to
persons similarly situated without sacrificing procedural fairness or bringing about other
undesirable results.
60.

The interests of the members of the Class in individually controlling the prosecution of

separate actions are theoretical rather than practical. The Class has a high degree of cohesion,
and prosecution of the action through representatives would be unobjectionable. The damages
suffered by the individual Class members may be relatively small. Therefore, the expense and
burden of individual litigation make it virtually impossible for class members to redress the
wrongs done to them. Plaintiff anticipates no difficulty in management of this action as a class
action.

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AS AND FOR A FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION
(Violation of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1693 et seq.)
61.

Plaintiff re-alleges and incorporates by reference all of the allegations of this Complaint

with the same force and affect as if fully restated herein.
62.

The primary objective of the EFTA is to protect consumer rights by providing a basic

framework establishing the rights, liabilities, and responsibilities of participants in the electronic
fund and remittance transfer systems.
63.

Among its consumer protection provisions, the EFTA prohibits the unsolicited issuance

to a consumer of an electronic fund transfer card that does not meet all of the EFTA’s unsolicited
access device criteria. See 15 U.S.C. § 1693(i).
64.

Stored Value Cards and/or Central National Bank are financial institutions as defined by

15 U.S.C. § 1693a(9) because they directly hold accounts belonging to consumers.
65.

Stored Value Cards and/or Central National Bank violated 15 U.S.C. § 1693(i) by issuing

to consumers unsolicited electronic transfer cards that do not meet all of the EFTA’s unsolicited
access device criteria.
66.

Stored Value Cards and/or Central National Bank’s violations of the EFTA have caused

and continue to cause Plaintiff and the Class damages.

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AS AND FOR A SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION
(Violation of the Oregon Unfair Trade Practices Act, Oregon Revised Statutes §§ 646.605 et
seq., on behalf of the Oregon Subclasses)
67.

Plaintiff re-alleges and incorporates by reference all of the allegations of this Complaint

with the same force and affect as if fully restated herein.
68.

Plaintiff and the Oregon Subclasses have suffered an ascertainable loss as a result of

Defendants’ unlawful trade practices and/or unconscionable tactics.
69.

Defendants’ unlawful trade practices and/or unconscionable tactics were willful.

70.

Defendants’ unlawful trade practices have caused and continue to cause Plaintiff and the

Oregon Subclasses actual damages.
AS AND FOR A THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION
(Conversion)
71.

Plaintiff re-alleges and incorporates by reference all of the allegations of this Complaint

with the same force and affect as if fully restated herein.
72.

Under Oregon law, “[c]onversion is an intentional exercise of dominion or control over

chattel which so seriously interferes with the right of another to control it that the actor may
justly be required to pay the other the full value of the chattel.” In re Complaint as to the
Conduct of Martin, 328 Ore. 177, 184 (1998).
73.

Defendants have wrongfully collected card fees from Plaintiff and members of the Class,

and have taken specific and readily identifiable funds from Plaintiff and the members of the
Class in payment of these fees in order to satisfy them.

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Defendants, without proper authorization, assumed and exercised the right of ownership

over these funds, in hostility to the rights of Plaintiff and the Class, without legal justification.
75.

Defendants continue to retain these funds unlawfully and without the consent of Plaintiff

or the Class.
76.

Defendants intend to permanently deprive Plaintiff and the Class of these funds.

77.

These funds are properly owned by Plaintiff and the Class, not Stored Value Cards or

Central National Bank, which now claim that they are entitled to their ownership, contrary to the
rights of Plaintiff and the Class.
78.

Plaintiff and the Class are entitled to the immediate possession of these funds.

79.

Defendants have wrongfully converted these specific and readily identifiable funds.

80.

Stored Value Cards’ and Central National Bank’s wrongful conduct is continuing.

81.

As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ wrongful conversion, Plaintiff and the

Class have suffered and continue to suffer damages.
AS AND FOR A FOURTH CAUSE OF ACTION
(Unjust Enrichment)
82.

Plaintiff re-alleges and incorporates by reference all of the allegations of this Complaint

with the same force and affect as if fully restated herein.
83.

Defendants have been unjustly enriched by their assessment of fees upon Plaintiff and the

Class that are unfair, unconscionable, inflated and oppressive.
84.

The circumstances are such that it would be unjust and inequitable for Defendants to

retain the benefit that they unjustly received from Plaintiff and the Class.
85.

Plaintiff and the Class have suffered and continue to suffer actual damages as a result of

Defendants’ unjust retention of proceeds from their acts and practices alleged herein.
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DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL
Plaintiff respectfully requests jury trial of all claims that can be so tried.
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff, on behalf of herself and on behalf of the Class, prays for the
following relief:
1.

An order certifying this case as a class action and appointing Plaintiff and the

undersigned counsel to represent the Class;
2.

Declaration, judgment, and decree that Defendants Stored Value Cards’ and/or

Central National Bank’s conduct alleged herein:

3.

a.

Violates the EFTA;

b.

Constitutes conversion; and

c.

Constitutes unjust enrichment;

Declaration, judgment, and decree that Defendants Stored Value Cards’ and/or

Central National Bank’s conduct alleged herein violates the OUTPA;
4.

Damages to Plaintiff and the Class to the maximum extent allowed under state

and federal law;
5.

Costs and disbursements of the action;

6.

Restitution and/or disgorgement of ill-gotten gains;

7.

Pre- and post-judgment interest;

8.

Reasonable attorneys’ fees;

9.

An injunction requiring corrective measures to be taken to prevent Defendants

from engaging in the above-described misconduct; and

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Such other relief, in law and equity, as this Court may deem just and proper.

DATED this 22nd day of July, 2015.

THE PORTLAND LAW COLLECTIVE, LLP

________________________
Benjamin Haile
1130 SW Morrison Street, Suite 407
Portland, OR 97205
THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER
Lance Weber (To Be Admitted Pro Hac Vice)
Sabarish Neelakanta (To Be Admitted Pro Hac Vice)
PO Box 1151
Lake Worth, FL 33460
GISKAN SOLOTAROFF ANDERSON &
STEWART LLP
Raymond Audain (To Be Admitted Pro Hac Vice)
Oren Giskan (To Be Admitted Pro Hac Vice)
11 Broadway - Suite 2150
New York, NY 10004
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF AND THE CLASS

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