PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Pleading
......Class Actions
.........Appeal
4 Cards On This Topic:
  • An unnamed class member does not become a party of record with the right to appeal a class settlement, judgment or attorneys fee award unless he or she formally intervenes in the class litigation before it is final.
  • Under CA wage order re security guards, class Ps were entitled to compensation for all on-call hours spent at their assigned worksites under their employer's control, including sleep time.
  • In wage and hour class action by loan officers, trial court's flawed implementation of sampling to class as a whole prevented Bank from showing some class members were exempt and entitled to no recovery.
  • When order terminates both class and individual claims, there is no need to apply "death knell" doctrine rather than the usual "one final judgment" rule to ensure appellate review of class claims.