Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment,
California Supreme Court
Mar. 1, 2019
Did Timbs set up constitutionality problems for PAGA?
California employers may have an arrow in their quiver to challenge the constitutionality of California’s Private Attorneys General Act.
Maria Z. Stearns
Partner
Rutan & Tucker LLP
Email: mstearns@rutan.com
Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA
"[T]he protection against excessive fines guards against government's punitive or criminal-law-enforcement authority. This safeguard, we hold, is fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty, with deep roots in our history and tradition." (Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writing for the unanimous Supreme Court in Timbs v. Indiana, 2019 DJDAR 1337) With these words, do Califor...
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