Essentially, the Supreme Court declared that California’s Supreme Court had erred in a previous PAGA case and state courts had applied that erroneous decision, involving the division of individual and class action complaints, to Moriana’s case. The case involved Viking River Cruises and one of its employees, former sales representative Angie Moriana. Supreme Court last week declared that some important features are void because they conflict with the Federal Arbitration Act, which encourages civil disputes to be arbitrated rather than litigated. Meanwhile, a case challenging PAGA’s provisions has been winding through state and federal courts and the U.S.
Most likely it will go to voters in 2024. The initiative petitions have been submitted for signature-counting, but probably too late for the 2022 ballot. Ultimately, business interests spent millions of dollars to qualify a ballot measure that would gut PAGA.
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Business and employer groups said it gave greedy lawyers a license to demand big settlements of cases and earn big contingency fees. It enabled workers who had disputes with their employers to file class action lawsuits even if they had signed pre-employment agreements to submit such disputes to arbitration.Īdvocates said it was needed to protect workers’ rights and make up for the state labor department’s inability to keep up with disputes over wages and other working conditions.
Gray Davis handed personal injury lawyers and unions a major victory by signing legislation called the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA).
In 2003, just four days after California voters decided to remove him from office, then-Gov. However, there are many other fronts in tort wars, including one that resulted in a U.S.
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