Alvarez v. May Dep’t Stores Co., 143 Cal. App. 4th 1223 (2006)

Plaintiffs in this case are 56 current and former Area Sales Managers employed by May Department Stores who alleged that they were improperly classified as exempt administrative employees and that they were not paid statutory overtime that was owed to them. The trial court sustained without leave to amend May’s demurrer based

Prince v. CLS Transp., Inc., 118 Cal. App. 4th 1320 (2004)

Ronald Prince and two other employees filed a class-action complaint against CLS Transportation, Inc., seeking unpaid wages on behalf of more than 500 CLS drivers. CLS demurred on the ground that there was no well-defined community of interest and that a class action was not superior to other methods of adjudicating these particular