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Labor & Employment

Jul. 16, 2014

Mark D. Kemple

Greenberg Traurig LLP Los Angeles Specialty: employment defense


A groundbreaking battle over the proper forum for a wage and hour putative class action - state or federal court - was at the core of one of Kemple's cases.


In a suit initially filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2011, a putative class of nurses sued their employer for various alleged wage violations.


Under the federal Class Action Fairness Act, the defendants attempted to move the case to federal court, where there are some "critica...

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