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Chelsea Hamilton v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. et al
Case Number:
5:17-cv-01415
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action
Judge:
Firms
- Gibson Dunn
- Greenberg Traurig
- K&L Gates
- Lauby Mankin
- Law Offices of G. Samuel Cleaver
- Troutman Pepper
- Yoon Law APC
Companies
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February 12, 2020
Walmart Workers Can't Get Retrial In Calif. Meal Break Suit
Workers who staffed a Walmart fulfillment center in Chino, California, lost a bid for a new trial against the retail behemoth after a Golden State federal judge said Tuesday that he saw no reason to upend a $6.1 million jury verdict in the workers' favor.
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January 31, 2020
Walmart Seeks To Undo $6M Verdict In Calif. Meal Break Suit
Walmart urged a California federal judge Friday to toss a jury's verdict that awarded a class of employees $6.1 million because the company discouraged meal breaks by requiring workers to go through metal detectors to leave work, saying the workers didn't prove that they were all discouraged from taking breaks.
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April 12, 2019
Walmart Owes $6M In Meal Break Suit, Jury Says
Walmart must pay $6.1 million to a class of employees for not providing meal breaks when it required workers to go through anti-theft metal detectors every time they wanted to leave the building, a California federal jury decided April 12.
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April 04, 2019
Walmart Metal Detectors Short Workers' Breaks, Jury Told
A former Walmart employee told a California federal jury Thursday she felt like a criminal going through a metal detector before leaving work, a time-consuming process she claims in her class action lawsuit discouraged workers from leaving the center for meal breaks.
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March 05, 2019
Walmart Chips Away At Classes In Wage, Meal Break Row
A California federal judge Monday granted Walmart Inc.'s request to decertify some classes in a lawsuit alleging the store denied workers overtime and meal breaks while declining the retail giant's request to trim claims and the workers' bid for a quick win on some of the allegations.
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November 19, 2018
Walmart, Workers Spar Over Meal Breaks In Wage Suit
Walmart Inc. urged a California federal judge on Friday to pare claims that workers were discouraged from taking meal breaks by security checkpoints at store exits from a wage-and-hour class action, while the workers separately told the court they weren't properly paid for time they spent going through those screenings.
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August 21, 2018
Walmart Workers Win Partial Cert. In Wage-And-Hour Suit
A California federal judge on Tuesday certified several subclasses of Walmart Inc. workers alleging the store denied them overtime and meal breaks, but declined to certify a rest break subclass, finding it would result in too many individualized questions.
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September 15, 2017
Walmart Wants Calif. Wage Suit To Stay Federal
Walmart urged a California federal judge Friday to reject an ex-worker's effort to push her putative wage-and-hour class action back to state court, saying the alleged damages exceed the $5 million minimum for federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act.