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Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment,
California Courts of Appeal

Aug. 22, 2017

Workers try to hold closed restaurant’s CEO liable

An appeal that triggered an avalanche of plaintiffs’ employment bar amicus briefs did not seem to draw much interest from an appellate panel Monday.

SANTA ANA — An appeal that triggered an avalanche of plaintiffs’ employment bar amicus briefs did not seem to draw from interest from an appellate panel Monday.

Bryan J. Schwartz, a lawyer for workers at two shuttered Japanese restaurants, said that the issue of holding the restaurant’s CEO liable for the alleged unpaid wages and other labor code violations is relevant to “over six million people in small businesses like this” throu...

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