Savaglio v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Opinion

REARDON, J.

The parties to a statewide class action involving claims that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., et al., 1 denied meal and rest breaks to thousands of employees filed volumes of records conditionally under seal without complying with the constitutionally mandated procedures embodied in California Rules of Court, 2 mies 2.550 and 2.551. After a local newspaper entered the proceedings with a motion to unseal, and after Wal-Mart publicly filed papers and exhibits in two writ proceedings in this court that had been conditionally sealed below, the trial court entertained Wal-Mart’s belated…