3rd Circuit Upholds More Than $4.5M Verdict For Class Of Exotic Dancers

Mealey's (September 5, 2019, 11:50 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A district court’s rulings finding that it had jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) to try Pennsylvania law class claims by exotic dancers seeking unpaid wages and that the dancers were, as a matter of law, employees were affirmed by a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 30 in a opinion in which the appellate panel also sustained a more than $4.5 million jury verdict for the dancers (Priya Verma, et al. v. 3001 Castor, Inc., No. 18-2462, 3rd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 26391)....