The California Supreme Court clarifies that an unreadably small or blurry contract goes to procedural unconscionability, not substantive unconscionability — but illegibility triggers heightened scrutiny of the underlying terms for unfairness.
The court conditionally certified a federal Fair Labor Standards Act collective action by City of San Diego firefighters who claim the City miscalculated their overtime by leaving a $500 paramedic-certification bonus out of their regular rate of pay, and approved a joint notification plan with adjus
Los Angeles Appellate Division affirms an unlawful-detainer judgment against a resident manager whose tenancy was tied to her employment, holding the Tenant Protection Act’s 60-day notice and just-cause requirements do not apply where housing was provided as employment compensation under a wri
The court issued a limited stay of a federal misclassification class action against Assurance IQ and Prudential pending a preliminary settlement approval ruling in an earlier-filed and substantially similar state-court class action whose proposed class includes the federal plaintiff.
After previously certifying a class of California bus driver/operator employees of Transdev for wage-and-hour claims, the court reversed course and decertified the class in light of multiple overlapping earlier-filed state-court class actions, then stayed the case to allow those proceedings to advan
Second District holds the California State University has a duty under HEERA to bargain over reasonably foreseeable effects of its 2023 student-vaccine policy on faculty health, but vacates PERB’s violation finding because there was no substantial evidence CSU had implemented the policy or def
Central District of California denies remand of a wrongful-termination suit by a former Walmart warehouse worker who took medical leave for cancer treatment, holding that lost wages alone — calculated as 2.5 years of back pay plus 2.5 years of front pay — exceed the federal $75,000 amount-in-controv
Central District of California denies remand and dismisses California FEHA discrimination claims brought by a Tennessee-based remote worker for Karl Storz, holding that FEHA reaches only employees whose situs of employment or material elements of the cause of action are substantially connected to Ca
Central District of California grants an unopposed motion to dismiss three labor claims as preempted by the National Labor Relations Act, then grants the plaintiff’s motion to remand the remaining state-law claims for lack of any remaining federal hook.
Central District of California denies remand of an Amazon discrimination suit, holding that a plaintiff cannot defeat federal jurisdiction by submitting a post-removal stipulation capping damages or by relying on the affirmative defense of mitigation.
The court remanded a Private Attorneys General Act case against Southwest Airlines to state court because the airline failed to plausibly show more than $75,000 was at stake when the plaintiff’s individual share of attorney’s fees and PAGA penalties were properly calculated.
Judge Orrick grants summary judgment to individual Cemex defendants and partially to Cemex on after-acquired-evidence grounds related to undisclosed mental health issues on Mr. Sample’s DOT certification, while letting the harassment and hostile-work-environment claims against Cemex proceed.
Magistrate Judge Lee denies plaintiff John Thornhill’s motion to remand his California wage-and-hour class action against McLane Foodservice, Inc., finding that McLane has met its burden to show more than $5 million is at stake under the Class Action Fairness Act.
First District affirms judgment for the City and County of San Francisco in a FEHA age-discrimination challenge to the City’s two-formula disability-retirement scheme, finding the City’s pension structure did not violate FEHA.
Fourth District grants writ relief, holding that a curative class-action notice informing putative class members they may revoke individual settlement agreements must also tell them California rescission statutes require return of the settlement payment.
Second District affirms an order compelling arbitration of an employee’s individual wage claims and dismissing her class claims, holding the parties’ arbitration agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act because they expressly said so.
Eastern District of California denies the plaintiff’s motion to remand a wage-and-hour class action against Land O’Lakes and Kozy Shack Enterprises, holding the defendants’ updated expert calculations satisfy the $5 million amount-in-controversy threshold under the Class Action Fai
Judge Chen dismisses pregnancy and race discrimination claims against two individual UPS managers, Renee Rea and Omar Parra, holding the First Amended Complaint contains insufficient specific factual allegations to state claims against them while leaving the FEHA, Title VII, and IIED claims against
Central District of California remands a putative wage-and-hour class action, holding that an employer’s speculative estimate of the named plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees cannot satisfy the $75,000 federal amount-in-controversy requirement.
The court compelled arbitration of a former CVS employee’s discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage claims, ruling that CVS met its burden of authenticating her electronic signature on a 2017 arbitration agreement and that her bare assertion that her supervisor logged in and signed fo
Eastern District of California compels a warehouse worker’s individual PAGA claim to arbitration and stays the representative PAGA claim, applying the California Supreme Court’s decision in Adolph v. Uber to find that splitting the action does not violate California law.
Judge Percy Anderson denied remand of a FedEx wage-and-hour class action, holding CAFA’s minimal diversity and $5 million amount-in-controversy thresholds were both established by conservative assumptions and workforce evidence. The court rejected plaintiff’s Sonner argument because the
Judge Dale S. Fischer remanded a FEHA whistleblower-retaliation suit against U.S. Bank, holding that Bogaski’s self-serving denial declaration could not establish fraudulent joinder where the plaintiff could possibly amend to allege the FEHA aiding-and-abetting elements (knowledge plus substan
Magistrate Judge Beeler dismisses with prejudice the Title VII and ADEA claims of a 40-year-old Thai-American job applicant who repeatedly applied to Google for driver and management positions, holding he failed to exhaust administrative remedies, and dismisses his § 1981 discrimination claim with o