Carl’s Jr. Worker Fails to Get Wage Case Returned to State Court

A Carl’s Jr. Restaurants LLC worker who says the burger chain violated California wage-and-hour laws failed to convince a federal judge to send her proposed class action back to state court.

The worker argued that Carl’s Jr. waited too long to remove the case to federal court and didn’t show there’s more than $5 million at stake as the Class Action Fairness Act requires. But the company timely removed the suit and sufficiently demonstrated that one of the worker’s claims puts $8 million in controversy all on its own, easily satisfying CAFA, the US District Court for the Central District ...