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U.S. Supreme Court,
Labor/Employment

Sep. 16, 2022

Sotomayor’s prediction on PAGA cases is coming true

Dissenting in Viking River Cruises v. Moriana, the justice wrote that “California courts, in an appropriate case, will have the last word” on nonindividual PAGA claims.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor may get the last laugh with her concurring opinion in a June case that partially overturned a California labor law, the Private Attorney Generals Act.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., an appointee of President George W. Bush, wrote the majority opinion, in which he ruled that a plaintiff does not have standing in state court to represent her former co-workers once she is out of a lawsuit after her i...

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