Employer Liability Issues, Class Members, Class Action

For Richards And Not For Poorer: Employers in the Seventh Circuit Get Reprieve From Unfair FLSA Collective Certification Standard

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/8/2025

The Seventh Circuit has joined the Fifth and Sixth Circuits in establishing a higher bar for employees to clear before courts may authorize “notice” to potential members of an FLSA collective action. Although the Seventh...more

Frying the Certification: Fourth Circuit Turns Up the Heat, Reversing Class Certification Decision for Bojangles Shift Managers In...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/23/2024

Class Certification Recipe Needs More Flavor: The Fourth Circuit tossed out a class certification order for Bojangles’ shift managers, citing a high level of generality in identifying common policies and overly broad class...more

This Week at the Ninth: Class Opt-Outs and Non-Renewed Contracts

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals on 9/12/2022

This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses the immediate appealability of orders invalidating class action opt-outs, and considers whether a decision not to renew a contract is an adverse employment action for purposes of a Title...more

This Week at The Ninth: Class Settlement and Certification

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals on 2/22/2022

This week, the Court addresses objectors’ challenges to the approval of a settlement of class and California Labor Code Private Attorney General claims, and considers the propriety of certifying a class with parties who...more

Class Action Claims Were Moot After Class Representative Settled His Individual Claims

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 8/14/2020

Brady v. AutoZone Stores, 960 F.3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2020) - Michael Brady sued AutoZone Stores for alleged violations of Washington State’s meal break laws. After several years of litigation, the district court denied...more

Novel Oregon Federal Court Ruling On Communications With Absent Class Member

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/9/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: In McKenzie Law Firm, P.A., et al. v. Ruby Receptionists, Inc., 18-CV-1921, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 94299 (D. Or. May 29, 2020), the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon lessened the standard for...more

Court Declines To Certify Class Of Sexually Assaulted Hospital Patients

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/16/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: In Ituah, et al. v. Austin State Hospital, a federal magistrate judge in Texas recently recommended the denial of a motion for class certification brought by patients alleging disability discrimination...more

7-Year Equal Pay Class and Collective Action in NJ Could Settle for $6.2 Million

Fisher Phillips on 1/11/2019

More than seven years ago, female sales representatives who worked for Merck filed a class and collective action alleging discrimination in pay on the basis of their gender in violation of the Equal Pay Act (EPA) and Title...more

Don’t Count Your Chickens – Or State Citizens For CAFA Exceptions – Before They Hatch

Carlton Fields on 11/6/2018

The Ninth Circuit vacated a remand order implicating the local and home-state controversy exceptions to CAFA jurisdiction in a putative class action by former California resident employees of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) for...more

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