By Andrew Melzer (January 2, 2019, 2:33 PM EST) -- Strauch v. Computer Sciences Corp.[1] is a wage-and-hour misclassification action before the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut involving hundreds of system administrators. The case proceeded to a liability trial on behalf of a nationwide Fair Labor Standards Act collective action comprised of roughly 600 opt-ins and Rule 23 state law subclasses — of roughly 200 hundred employees each — under California and Connecticut law. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the employees on Dec. 20, 2017, holding that defendant Computer Sciences Corp., or CSC, had failed to establish its exemption defenses and that the plaintiffs had proven its violations were willful. Following post-trial motions and rulings from the court, the case is slated to proceed to a damages and remedial phase....