Masco Corp. Secures Favorable Settlement in Employment Class Action

Defended a subsidiary of Masco (NYS: MAS), a major consumer products company, in a class action alleging failure to pay overtime wages and to reimburse travel costs and expenses brought by door installers working throughout Southern California.  After challenging whether common issues of fact existed among the class members, plaintiffs waived deadline for filing motion to certify the class and filed a separate action for 52 other individuals in California Superior Court.  After we successfully removed the state case to the federal district court, 62 individual plaintiffs agreed to a settlement on terms favorable to the defendants (Gallo v. Masco Corp., Southern District, CA).

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