9th Circuit Upholds Sanctions In Nurses’ Wage Class Lawsuit

(March 22, 2018, 9:17 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 19 upheld sanctions against the attorneys representing two nurses in a wage-and-hour lawsuit against their former employer, finding that under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37, a court may order a party to produce its nonparty expert witness and sanction the party’s counsel if the witness fails to appear (Marlyn Sali, et al. v. Corona Regional Medical Center, et al., No. 15-56389, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS)....