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INSURANCE NOT REQUIRED Return FULLLY EXECUTED <br />o ' WORK MAY PROCEED Copy to COTC, M-30 A-2023-060-01 A <br />CITY CLERK <br />N DATE: <br />l APPENDIX 3 <br />o Cm J CALIFORNIA-SUBDIVISION BACKSTOP AGREENrc T <br />On August 6, 2021, Judge Polster of the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio issued <br />an Order (the Order), docket number 3814, in In Re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, NIDL <br />2804, addressing contingent attorney fee contracts between political subdivisions eligible to <br />participate in the Walmart Settlement and their counsel. <br />In light of the Order, and at the request of the City of Santa Ana, the City of Santa Ana, its counsel <br />Robins Kaplan LLP, and the California Attorney General, on behalf of the State of California, are <br />entering into this California -Subdivision Backstop Agreement (Backstop Agreement). <br />The City of Santa Ana and Robins Kaplan LLP intend this Backstop Agreement to constitute a State <br />Back- Stop Agreement as that term is used in the Order and in Exhibit R (Agreement on <br />Attorneys' Fees, Costs, and Expenses) of the Walmart Settlement Agreement. <br />Pursuant to this Backstop Agreement, the City of Santa Ana may, subject to the limitations of the <br />Walmart Settlement Agreement and CA Walmart Allocation Agreement, as well as any other <br />limitations imposed by law, use funds that it receives from the Walmart Settlement CA <br />Subdivision Fund to pay a contingent fee to Robins Kaplan LLP. Any such payment from the <br />City of Santa Ana to Robins Kaplan LLP, together with any contingency fees that Robins Kaplan <br />LLP may receive from the national Attorney Fee Fund, will not exceed a total contingency fee of <br />15% of the total gross recovery of City of Santa Ana from the Walmart Settlement. <br />Robins Kaplan LLP certifies that they first sought fees and costs from the Attorney Fee Fund <br />created under the Walmart Settlement Agreement before seeking or accepting payment under this <br />backstop agreement. Robins Kaplan LLP further certify that they are not seeking and will not <br />accept payment under this backstop agreement of any litigation fees or costs that have been <br />reimbursed through prior settlements or judgments. <br />The Attorney General is executing this agreement solely because the definition of "State Back - <br />Stop Agreement" in Exhibit R of the Walmart Settlement Agreement requires such agreements to <br />be between "a Settling State" and private counsel for a participating subdivision. Neither the <br />California Attorney General nor the State of California have any obligations under this Backstop <br />Agreement, and this Backstop Agreement does not require the payment of any state funds to the <br />City of Sant Ana, Robins Kaplan LLP, or any <br />��other part <br />Dated: —f lZ 2023 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />Dated: 12023 <br />Dated: 2023 <br />Robins Kaplan LLP <br />ATTORNEY GENERAL <br />