Christopher Mendoza v. Nordstrom

ORDER

GRABER, Circuit Judge:

We respectfully ask the Supreme Court of California to exercise its discretion to decide the three certified questions set forth in Part' II of this Order, below. ■ See Cal. R. Ct. 8.548. The answers to these questions of California law would be dis-positive of the appeal before us, and no clear controlling California precedent exists. Id. Moreover, because the questions that we certify are of extreme importance to tens of thousands of employees in California, considerations of comity and federalism suggest that the court of last resort in California, rather than…