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IT AND LEGAL’S DILIGENT EFFORTS

RECOUP $268K FOR THE DISTRICT

Based on a claim filed by the Office of General Counsel, with significant
assistance from the Division of Information Technology, our School District
received a settlement in the amount of $268,332.52 in an antitrust case
involving the prior purchase of computers with optical disk drives.

In late July 2017, the Office of General Counsel learned there was an August
1, 2017 claim filing deadline in the case of In Re Optical Disk Drive Products
Antitrust Litigation. The Office of General Counsel contacted the Division of
Information Technology and requested the information necessary to file a
claim. In less than one week, IT provided the requested information, including
that the District had purchased 70,486 computers during the applicable
timeframe. The Office of General Counsel then filed the claim. At the time
of filing, it was unknown whether the District’s purchase of computers with
optical disk drives would be deemed eligible and, if so, how much we might
ultimately receive from the claim. Following the filing of the claim, nothing
other than a Claim Registration Confirmation was received until December
2021 when a notice of a January 4, 2022 proof of claim submittal
deadline was received. Again, IT gathered the required information
so it could be submitted prior to the deadline. On
June 15, 2022, the Office of General Counsel
received a $268,332.52 settlement check for
our District’s share of the settlement proceeds.

Blair Littlejohn from the Office of General Counsel
and Rob Rutstein from IT Technical
Operations were the primary contributors to
this effort.
“I would really like to thank Rob Rutstein
for his diligent research and collaboration
with our Legal department, going back through
years of orders and invoices to provide the
necessary proof that put over $268,000 back into
District coffers!”

Deepak Agarwal, CIO
IT Division.

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