In, perhaps, the most important wage and hour class action post-Comcast, the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Judge J. Paul Oetken) granted in part and denied in part a pharmacy chain’s motion for reconsideration of the court’s previous order certifying a class of assistant store managers’ (“ASMs”) state law
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District Court Grants Hearst Interns’ Motion for Appeal to Second Circuit
By William J. Anthony on
Former unpaid interns at the Hearst Corp. may have their denial of class certification reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The District Court of the Southern District of New York (Judge Harold Baer, Jr.) granted the interns’ motion to certify the court’s opinion and order of May 8…
District Court Denies Certification of 23(b)(3) Class; Quotes Language from Comcast Corp. v. Behrend
By William J. Anthony on
Posted in State Law Wage & Hour Claims
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.…