An employer’s motion to dismiss a former employee’s claim for late payment penalties under Cal. Lab. Code § 201.3(b)(1) was denied where the employer’s arguments that there were potentially valid reasons why the employee or other putative class members may have received late payments merely supported the employer’s affirmative defenses. However, the employee failed to […]
Procedural Posture
Plaintiff downslope property owner sued defendant upslope property owner for damage from a rainstorm that flooded the downslope property with water, mud and debris, allegedly originating from a lemon grove on the upslope property. A jury of the Superior Court of San Diego County, California, awarded plaintiff $350,000 in damages, but found applicable the Right […]