Legal Opinion
Williams v. Superior Court of L. A. Cnty.
California Supreme Court
Decided July 13, 2017No. S227228PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
**74 Werdegar, J.
*537 This is a representative action seeking civil penalties on behalf of the State of California and aggrieved employees statewide for *538 alleged wage and hour violations. (See Lab. Code, § 2698 et seq., the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004, hereafter PAGA.) In the course of discovery, plaintiff Michael Williams sought contact information for fellow California employees. When the defendant employer, Marshalls of CA, LLC, resisted, Williams filed a motion to compel. The trial court granted the motion as to the store where Williams worked, but denied it as to every…
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