Supreme Court of California

In an action to recover unpaid overtime compensation, plaintiff has failed to state a cause of action against any of the individuals who were officers or directors and shareholders of his former employer.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/11/2005
• Published 08/11/2005

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• The Impact Fund,Brad Seligman, Berkeley;  The Legal Solutions Group, Robert S. Boulter, San Francisco;  Law Office of Jonathan Weiss and Jonathan Weiss, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Ellyn Moscowitz, Oakland, Joanna Mittman and M. Suzanne Murphy, Oakland, for The Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County, The Building and Construction Trades Council of Contra Costa County, The Building and Construction Trades Council of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, The Building and Construction Trades Council of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, The District Council of Iron Workers for the State of California and Vicinity, The Northern California Carpenters Regional Council, The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 11, The Painters District Council Local 36, The Roofers Union Locals 81, 36 and 220 and The Sprinkler Fitters United Association, Local 483 as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, David Borgen, Oakland, Darci Burrell and Joshua Konecky, San Francisco, for The Impact Fund, Asian Law Caucus, Inc., Asian Pacific American Legal Center, California Employment Lawyers Association, The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, La Raza Centro Legal, Inc., and Women's Employment Rights Clinic at Golden Gate University School of Law as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Gus T. May, Los Angeles, and Cassandara Stubbs for Asian Law Caucus, Inc., Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Garment Worker Center, Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates and Sweatshop Watch as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Law Offices of Jeffery K. Winikow, Jeffrey K. Winikow, Los Angeles;  Law Offices of Peter Rufkin and Peter Rufkin for California Employment Lawyers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, Stephen P. Berzon, San Francisco, Jonathan Wissglass and Barbara J. Chisholm, San Francisco, for Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, AFL-CIO, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, Unite, AFL-CIO, State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, AFL-CIO and United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., William G. Hoerger, San Francisco;  Talamantes/Villegas/Carrera and Mark Talamantes, San Francisco, for Miguel Martinez, Antonio Perez Cortes, Asuncion Cruz, Hermilio Mendoza, Jesus H. Mendoza and Catarino Cortez as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Anne Stevason for the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Munger, Tolles & Olson, Alan V. Friedman, Kathleen M. McDowell, Linda S. Goldman, Paul J. Watford, Lynn H. Scaduto and Katherine M. Forster, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Respondents., Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Paul Grossman, Los Angeles, for California Employment Law Council as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Timothy J. Long, Julie A. Totten, Sacramento, and Galen T. Shimoda for Employers Group as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., Palmer Kazanjian Holden and Marcos A. Kropf for the California Independent Grocers Association and the Personal Insurance Federation of California as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., Jonathan L. Block, Camarillo, and Joseph J. Craciun for Association of Corporate Counsel America-Southern California Chapter as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., Knox, Lemmon & Anapolsky and Thomas S. Knox, Sacramento, for the California Retailers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents., William E. Dombrowski as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.