On February 26, 2014, Jackson Lewis will host its California Employment Class Action Summit at The Pacific Club in Newport Beach, CA.  Experienced Jackson Lewis class action litigators will present on a variety of topics including:

  • Developing the Initial Defense Strategy
    • Reviewing the Complaint
    • Early Strategic Considerations
  • Key Strategies in Defeating Class & Collective Certification

Plaintiffs seeking to certify a California class of current and former assistant stores managers and other differently titled managers and associates were denied class certification of their state law claims under Rule 23.  Saks, Inc., the operator of high-end retail department stores across the United States, also convinced the district court to grant its preemptive

Generally speaking, certifying an off-the-clock wage and hour class action is quite difficult as the following two consolidated cases in the District Court of the Southern District of New York illustrate.  Personal bankers who sought to bring such an action against Wells Fargo and Wachovia Bank (acquired by Wells Fargo in 2008) were unable to

Following  the granting of conditional certification under FLSA 216(b) in July 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr.) granted the plaintiffs’ motion to certify a class of umpires who alleged that the United States Tennis Association’s (USTA) improperly classified them as “independent contractors” 

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (Judge Richard A. Jones) denied a motion to certify a class of more than 2,000 call-center customer account executives (“CAEs”) under Rule 23(b)(3) holding that individualized issues predominated over common questions.   Ginsburg et. al. v. Comcast Communications Mgmt. LLC, 2013 U.S. Dist.