A former Piedmont Airlines Inc. worker must pursue her wage-and-hour allegations in a federal forum after a judge rejected her attempt to get the case returned to state court.
The worker sought remand after the American Airlines Inc. subsidiary removed the state-law case under the Class Action Fairness Act. Piedmont’s estimate that there’s nearly $7.4 million at stake satisfies CAFA’s amount-in-controversy requirement, so the suit will stay where it is, the US District Court for the Central District of California said.
Michelle Lujano spent more than six years as a Piedmont customer service agent. She filed a would-be class ...
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