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Labor/Employment

Jun. 10, 2015

Guidance for PAGA defendants

A ruling provides defendants with powerful ammunition to contest a plaintiff's request for far-reaching contact information based only on speculation regarding statewide wrongdoing. By Jeffrey D. Wohl and Ryan C. Hess


By Jeffrey D. Wohl and Ryan C. Hess


When a plaintiff files a wage-and-hour class action or a representative action under
the California Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act, is the plaintiff necessarily
entitled to other employees' personal contact information? In Williams v. Superior Court, 2015 DJDAR 5266 (May 15, 2015), the 2nd District Court of Appeal held that there
is no automatic right to su...

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