In 2001, a handful of Walmart employees filed a class action lawsuit alleging that the store illegally docked workers’ wages and refused to pay overtime or for missed meal breaks.
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Judge van Gestel recently dismissed the claim in Sandoval, et al. v. The Hays Group, Inc., et al., by which former employees of the company were challenging the validity of arbitration provisions in their employment agreements.
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Judge Billings of the Essex Superior Court recently decided a summary judgment motion in Moore, et al. v. Barnsider Management Corp., a case about an allegedly illegal tip-sharing system.
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The phone rings constantly at Davis & Davis, P.C., and several times a day the caller is a potential client who was referred to us by another office or who found us on the web. The most common question we hear each day is: “Do I have a case?” I don’t think there is a more difficult question for a lawyer to answer over the phone.
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