9th Circ.'s Chase Ruling To Trigger More PAGA Suits

By Erin Coe ( March 17, 2014, 10:39 PM EDT) -- The Ninth Circuit held last week that Chase Investment Services Corp. can't rely on the Class Action Fairness Act to remove wage-and-hour claims brought under California's Private Attorney General Act to federal court, a ruling that lawyers say restricts employers' ability to boot PAGA cases from plaintiff-friendly state courts and could fuel more PAGA lawsuits. . . .

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