Case: Wage & Hour/California Class Actions (S.D. Cal.)

A California federal district court denied a motion to remand a wage and hour class action lawsuit against multiple defendants to California state court, where the dispute was removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act, the court found the assumptions for calculating the amount in controversy that exceeded $5 million were reasonable, and a local controversy exception to CAFA didn’t apply due to a similar class action pending in another federal court.