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Labor/Employment

Aug. 2, 2012

Workers' attorneys ask 9th Circuit to salvage class action

The changed class action landscape following a key U.S. Supreme Court decision last year was debated Tuesday before a 9th Circuit panel Tuesday in a bitter class action involving workers at a Los Angeles-area newspaper.


By John Roemer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - The changed class-action landscape following a key U.S. Supreme Court decision last year was debated before a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Tuesday in a case over a bitterly-contested union drive at Los Angeles' Chinese Daily News.


The question is what to do with the union case now that the high court has rejiggered class-action standards by decertifying the huge class in ...

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