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SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTSettlement Agreement • May 23rd, 2008
The parties, by counsel, enter into this Settlement Agreement ("the Agreement"), which they will submit to the Court for its approval. The Agreement: (a) contemplates certification of a class consisting of all persons who allege that they were arrested for any qualifying non-violent, non-drug related misdemeanor offense, and were strip-searched at the Bullitt County Detention Center ("the Jail") from March 2, 2004 to the present, when there existed no basis for a reasonable, individualized suspicion that they were carrying or concealing weapons or contraband; and (b) settles all claims of the class, including, without limitation on the generality of the foregoing, claims of class representatives and absent class members who have not opted out, for all money damages, attorneys’ fees, litigation expenses, and interest, by establishing a common fund of $800,000.00, to be shared among participating class members after payment of attorneys’ fees, litigation expenses,
