Mealey's (September 12, 2019, 12:06 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 22 affirmed a trial court’s denial of 11th Amendment immunity to a California county in a wage dispute by home care workers but reversed the trial court’s limitation of a putative collective period and expanded it to begin on the effective date of the U.S. Department of Labor’s new rule granting the workers overtime pay (Trina Ray, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, No. 17-56581, Trina Ray, et al. v. Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, No. 18-55276, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 25032)....