California Trucker’s Meal, Rest Break Claim Tossed by 9th Cir.

A California truck driver failed to prove CRST Van Expedited prevented meal and rest breaks as a companywide practice for him and his fellow workers, the Ninth Circuit said Thursday in an unpublished ruling.

The company satisfied the obligations under California law to provide the required breaks to the drivers, as no formal policy prevented them from stopping, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said. It upheld a lower court’s ruling that de-certified the proposed class and tossed the driver’s claim.

The appeals court had previously asked the California Supreme Court to weigh in ...