Starbucks Corp. v. Superior Court

Opinion

IKOLA, J.

Petitioner Starbucks Corporation (Starbucks) petitions for a writ of mandate directing the trial court to vacate its order denying Starbucks’s motion for summary judgment, and to enter a new order granting the motion.

Real parties in interest Erik Lords, Hon Yeung, and Donald Brown (collectively plaintiffs) represent a class of some 135,000 unsuccessful job applicants at Starbucks. They allege that the Starbucks employment application contains an “illegal question” about prior marijuana convictions that are more than two years old. They seek statutory damages of $200 per…