
Except for the attorney fees, a Superior Court judge preliminarily approved an $800,000 employment class action settlement against Peet's Coffee, involving claims of missed meal breaks, withheld wages and falsified timesheets at a coffee roasting plant in Alameda.
Alameda County Judge Julia Spain noted in her tentative ruling that the court's benchmark for fees is 30% of the total fund, but the plaintiffs' attorney sought $266,666, or 33% of the gross settlement amoun...
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