August 18, 2014
Lee Publications Inc. agreed to a $3.2 million class action settlement in a 6-year-old suit brought by home-delivery newspaper carriers who said they were misclassified as independent contractors and weren't properly reimbursed for expenses, the workers told a California federal court Friday.
April 26, 2012
A California federal judge on Monday denied Lee Publications Inc.'s bid to decertify a class of newspaper carriers who say they were misclassified as independent contractors, rejecting Lee's argument that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Wal-Mart v. Dukes doomed the class.
November 22, 2011
Lee Publications Inc. on Monday sought to decertify a class of newspaper carriers for the San Diego-area North County Times who were allegedly misclassified as independent contractors, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court's Dukes decision undermined the rationale behind the court's certification order.