Largest ever wage theft settlement against McDonald’s also includes extensive injunctive relief On March 4, 2020, the L.A. Superior Court granted preliminary approval to a pathbreaking class action settlement in Maria Sanchez, et al. v. McDonald’s Restaurants of California, Inc., et al., that provides $26 million and comprehensive injunctive relief to approximately 38,000 employees of […]
On February 24, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California certified a class of more than 200 former employees of defendant Microchip Technology Inc., who alleged that Microchip violated its fiduciary duties under ERISA by refusing to pay the severance it owed to class members whom Microchip fired without cause after […]
On February 20, 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Wal-Mart’s petition for rehearing or rehearing en banc in Ridgeway v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., rejecting Wal-Mart’s latest attempt to overturn a $55 million California minimum wage judgment that Altshuler Berzon LLP helped defend on appeal. The Court’s order denying rehearing is here. For more […]
On February 5, 2020, Altshuler Berzon LLP partner Michael Rubin argued City of Oakland et al. v. BP LLC et al., No. 18-6663, before a Ninth Circuit three-judge panel. The consolidated cases, brought by the City of Oakland and the City and County of San Francisco against five of the largest private investor-owned oil and […]
On January 24, 2020 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of a $13 million dollar settlement to benefit low-income consumers in California who alleged they were overcharged in violation of California’s Karnette Act when purchasing appliances and other household items from defendant Rent-a-Center. The settlement requires Rent-A-Center to […]
In a series of settlements negotiated by Altshuler Berzon LLP and its co-counsel, prominent retailers including CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid, and national banking institutions JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America have agreed to provide seats to all of their cashiers and tellers and to pay tens of millions of dollars in civil penalties. The […]
January 2020 started off with a bang for Altshuler Berzon LLP partner Michael Rubin, who had back-to-back arguments in the Ninth Circuit on January 6 and 8, 2020 in San Francisco. The first case up was Canela v. Costco, a case of first impression under the federal Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) and California’s Labor […]
On January 7, 2020, the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California granted a motion to dismiss federal antitrust, RICO, and labor law claims, as well as state law claims, brought by a hotel developer against UNITE HERE! Local 30, the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council, and those unions’ leaders. […]
On January 6, 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a published opinion affirmed a $55 million California minimum wage judgment in favor of a class of Wal-Mart, Inc.’s California truck drivers, in Ridgeway v. WalMart, Inc., Ninth Cir. Nos. 17-15983, 17-16142. Following a 16-day trial in 2016, a jury found that Wal-Mart failed […]
On December 26, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Danielson v. Inslee, 945 F.3d 1096 (9th Cir. 2019). Affirming the decision below, Danielson held that public employee unions that received fair-share fees from nonmembers before the Supreme Court held such fees unconstitutional in Janus v. AFSCME, […]