California Federal Judge Denies Amazon’s Motion To Transfer Wage Cases

Mealey's (December 17, 2019, 2:36 PM EST) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A federal judge in one federal court in California denied a motion to transfer five consolidated wage-and-hour class lawsuits against Amazon.com Inc. and others to another federal court where a sixth wage-and-hour class complaint was recently filed, opining that Amazon failed to show that the actions overlap and that the impending retirement of a chief judge is not reason alone for transfer (Juan Trevino, et al. v. Golden State FC, LLC, et al., Nos. 18-120, 18-121, 18, 567, 18-1176 and 17-1300, E.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 214571)....