Farmer v. Labor Ready Southwest, Inc. CA4/1
In November 2011, plaintiff Tyler Farmer brought this representative action alleging a single cause of action under the Private Attorneys General Act (Lab. Code, §§ 2698 et. seq.) (PAGA) against his former employer, Labor Ready Southwest, Inc. and its affiliated companies, TrueBlue, Inc. and True Blue Enterprises (collectively "Labor Ready").
Farmer died in July 2013. After learning of Farmer's death, Labor Ready filed a motion to dismiss the case in the trial court. Nine days before the hearing on the motion to dismiss, proposed intervenor Michael Hull filed a motion to intervene in the action. After a hearing on the motion to dismiss, the trial court entered an order in February 2017 granting the motion to dismiss and stating, "Nothing in this ruling prevents proposed intervener Hull from pursuing his own separate PAGA action."
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