Roe
Roe v. Jose Torres L.D. Latin Club Bar, Inc
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division JANE ROE, Case No. 19-cv-06088-LB
Plaintiff,
PRELIMINARY APPROVAL ORDER
v. Re: ECF No. 17 JOSE TORRES L.D. LATIN CLUB BAR,
INC,
15 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION This is a wage-and-hour and employee-misclassification case. It is a putative collective action under the Federal Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., and a putative class action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.1 The plaintiffs, current and former exotic dancers, claim that their employer, defendant Jose Torres L.D. Latin Club Bar, Inc, d/b/a Hanky Panky Club, misclassified them as independent contractors under the FLSA and California law and so failed to pay them requisite compensation. The parties entered into a settlement agreement, and the plaintiffs moved for preliminary approval of the proposed settlement. The court grants the unopposed motion.
1 Second Am. Compl. (“SAC”), Ex A…