San Francisco Giants Guard’s Wage Case Returned to State Court

The San Francisco Giants must face a former ballpark security guard’s wage-and-hour claims in state court after failing waiting too long to shift the case to a federal forum, a district judge in California said.

San Francisco Baseball Associates LLC—the organization behind the Major League Baseball team —failed to seek to remove the proposed class action within the allowed 30-day window, according to a Monday ruling in the US District Court for the Northern District of California granting the worker’s remand motion.

Theteam had argued that the case belonged in federal court because federal labor law preempted the worker’s state-law ...