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It a good year for PAGA plaintiffs, but the fight continues
Most state and federal judges who have decided cases since Viking River have stayed the representative PAGA claims while sending individual claims to arbitration.
2023 was a good year for plaintiffs’ attorneys who file Private Attorneys General Act complaints, as the state Supreme Court ruled that such cases are not barred by federal law and that cases on behalf of other workers do not need to be dismissed even if an individual claim is sent to arbitration.
But attorneys for employers haven’t given up, and earlier this month asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review of a 2nd District Court of Appe...