The Bill of Rights for State Excluded Employees permits, among other things, excluded employee organizations to represent their excluded members in their employment relations, including grievances, with the state. That…
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The panel denied a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to vacate the district court’s order compelling arbitration in an Uber driver’s putative class action alleging that the company…
Federal law says that breaks of 20 minutes or less must be paid. Under California law, which is more generous to employees than federal law, non-exempt workers are entitled to…
Plaintiffs’ operative complaint alleged that decedent George Fenimore, Jr., suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, was prone to wandering away from home, and had begun to suffer an increased number…
On Friday, December 11, the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) unanimously affirmed the order confirming the plan of adjustment of the City of Stockton. Earlier this year, Bankruptcy Judge…
By Jonathan Grossman When he felt the time was ripe, President Roosevelt asked Secretary of Labor Perkins, ‘What happened to that nice unconstitutional bill you had tucked away?’ On Saturday,…
In a 4 to 3 decision, the California Supreme Court held in mid-October the confession to police of a 10 year-old who admitted to killing his neo-Nazi father was admissible…
Within approximately one year of each other, the cities of Stockton, Calif., in June 2012, and Detroit, Mich., in July 2013, commenced municipal bankruptcy cases under Chapter 9 of the…