Bonnette v. California Health And Welfare Agency

704 F.2d 1465 26 Wage & Hour Cas. (BN 152, 97 Lab.Cas. P 34,373 Eleanor BONNETTE, Faye Pryor, Vickie Young, Joanne R. Cardone, Wai Jin Wong Fong, Thet Poy Chung, Elizabeth Tears, Plaintiffs-Appellees, United States of America, 1 Intervenor, v. CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND WELFARE AGENCY and Mario Obledo; California Department of Health and Beverlee Myers; California Department of Social Services and Marion Woods; Solano County Public Welfare Department and Crawford Tucker; San Francisco County Department of Social Services and Edwin Sarsfield; Sacramento County Department of Social Welfare and William Redmond, Defendants-Appellants. Nos. 81-4565, 82-4174. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 14, 1982. Decided May 5, 1983. As Amended June 22, 1983. Scott A. Fink, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees. Joseph Woodward, Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., for intervenor. Winifred Y. Smith, San Francisco, Cal., Thomas H. Gordinier, Fairfield, Cal., Gretchen Nicholson, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before…