Legal Opinion
Lasater v. DirecTV, LLC
District Court, C.D. California
Decided November 2, 2017No. Case No. 2:16-cv-01373-SVW-ASPublished
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN V. WILSON, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE
*998I. Introduction
This case was filed in early 2016 and has now reached summary judgment. The individual Plaintiffs are scheduled for trials that span from November 2017 and into December 2017. DirecTV has claimed for years that the Installers it hires through Contracting Companies are independent contractors, not employees. The Installers claim that they are employees as a matter of law, and are eligible for various California and Fair Labor Standards Act statutory protections. Both parties ask this Court to determine the Installers' status as a matter of…
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