Philips
Philips v. Munchery Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOSHUA JAMES EATON PHILIPS, et al., Case No. 19-cv-00469-JSC
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY
v. APPROVAL OF CLASS ACTION
SETTLEMENT
MUNCHERY INC., Re: Dkt. Nos. 54, 58, 60 Defendant.
12 Plaintiffs Joshua James Eaton Phillips and Christina Brooks bring this putative class action under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“WARN Act”), 29 U.S.C. § 2101(a)(2), and its California state law counterpart, California Labor Code §§ 1400 et seq. (“CAL- WARN”) (together, “WARN Acts”), against their former employer, Defendant Munchery, Inc. (“Munchery”). Plaintiffs allege that Munchery failed to provide its employees with written notice 60 days prior to their termination, as required under the WARN Acts. In February 2020, the parties reached a settlement of Plaintiffs’ claims. Thereafter, the parties filed a joint motion for preliminary approval of the class action settlement.1 (Dkt. No. 54.) At the hearing on motion for preliminary…