California Court of Appeal

Lee v. Dynamex, B196235

In a putative class action lawsuit against defendant-parcel delivery company alleging it had improperly reclassified plaintiffs-drivers from employees to independent contractors in violation of California law, denials of plaintiff-employees' motion to compel and motion for class certification are reversed where: 1) the trial court erred in finding the proposed class lacked ascertainability; and 2) the trial court abused its discretion in denying plaintiffs' motion to compel disclosure of the identity of potential class members.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/17/2008
• Published 09/17/2008

Judges

• PERLUSS, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Boudreau Williams and Jon R. Williams;  Pope, Berger & Williams and A. Mark Pope, San Diego;  and Levy, Stern & Ford, Los Angeles, and Lewis N. Levy for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Littler Mendelson, Robert G. Hulteng, Damon M. Ott and Ellen Bronchetti, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents.