Babasa

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

PATRICK BABASA; ROBERT 

BREDENSTEINER, individually, as private attorneys general, and on behalf of all employees similarly No. 07-55880 situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees,  D.C. No.

CV-06-01144-DOC

v. OPINION LENSCRAFTERS, INC., an Ohio Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 9, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed August 16, 2007

Before: Marsha S. Berzon and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges, and James K. Singleton,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Berzon

*The Honorable James K. Singleton, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.

10291 BABASA v. LENSCRAFTERS 10293

COUNSEL

Elizabeth Staggs Wilson and Lauren T. Howard, Littler Men- delson, Los Angeles, California, for the appellant.

Jeffrey Spencer and Dirk Bruinsma, San Clemente, Califor- nia, for the appellees.

OPINION

BERZON, Circuit Judge:

Appellant LensCrafters appeals the…