California Court of Appeal

In a wage and hour action against a taxicab company claiming that the company's leases wrongfully classified lessees as independent contractors rather than employees, the denial of class certification is affirmed, where the purported class would be unmanageable, and common questions did not predominate over individual issues, given differences among lessees' situations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2009
• Published 08/24/2009

Judges

• McCONNELL, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marks Golia & Finch LLP, Stephen J. Schultz, Bernard F. King, III, San Diego; Initiative Legal Group, LLP, Los Angeles, and H. Scott Leviant, Santa Barbara, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Borton Petrini & Conron LLP, Paul Kissel and Jonathan P. Geen, San Diego, for Defendants and Respondents.