Gray

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff and appellant Austin Gray (plaintiff) filed a class action against defendants and respondents Yellowpages.com, LLC; Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages, Inc.; AT&T, Inc.; and AT&T Services, Inc. (collectively Yellow Pages) that defined a class of employees in 21 different job titles and sought damages for, inter alia, unpaid overtime. After initially certifying the class, the trial court granted Yellow Pages’s motion to decertify and denied plaintiff’s motion to amend the class definition to eliminate certain job titles from the class definition. On appeal from the orders granting decertification and denying leave to amend the class definition, plaintiff contends that the trial court applied the wrong legal standard in ruling on the motion to decertify and abused its discretion in denying her leave to amend the class definition. We hold that because the trial court applied the correct legal standard, it did not abuse its discretion by decertifying the class and that plaintiff has failed to demonstrate that she was prejudiced by the order denying leave to amend the class definition. We therefore affirm the two orders from which plaintiff appeals.

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