Mealey's (October 4, 2018, 11:24 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge on Sept. 18 denied a motion to remand a laboratory technician’s wage-and-hour class complaint and granted a motion by the defendant to transfer to another California federal court where a similar case is pending pursuant to the first-to-file rule (Rita Garcia v. Praxair, Inc., et al., No. 18-3887, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159413)....