Sephora Denied Quick Appeal in NY Pay-Delay Interpretation Case

Sephora USA Inc. must wait to take to the Second Circuit a fight over whether New York manual worker pay frequency law allows private suits after a federal judge denied permission for a quick appeal.

The cosmetics retailer sought an interlocutory appeal after the US District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected its bid to end a manual worker pay-delay suit based on a new state intermediate appellate court opinion. The January state court opinion upended understandings of whether the law included a private right of action and created a lopsided split among federal trial court judges, ...