Wage Law

Yesterday, the Supreme Court denied a petition to review in Alvarez v. May Department Stores Co. (2006) 143 Cal.App.4th 1223 (upholding a demurrer to a wage and hour class action on the basis of collateral estoppel arising out a previous denial of class a certification motion in another matter) and denied a request for depublication. Our prior post on Alvarez can be read here. For the first time in a long time, we were surprised by the Supreme Court. We thought that the issues were novel, interesting and worthy of consideration by the high court. Justice Kennard was of the opinion that the case should be reviewed.