California Federal Court Reaffirms Standard for Establishing Commonality in Rule 23 Certification Under Title VII | Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On March 9, 2021, the United States District Court, Northern District of California issued a ruling in Handloser v. HCL Technologies Ltd., 19-cv-01242-LKH, 2021 WL 879802 (Mar. 9, 2021), applying the 2011 Supreme Court standard established in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 564 U.S. 338, 350 (2011), for individuals to properly assert a Rule 23 class for Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 discrimination claims. The named plaintiffs filed their complaint against HCL Technologies Ltd., an Indian consulting and information tech...