Mealey's (March 17, 2021, 3:11 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 9 affirmed a trial court’s decertification of a class of restaurant workers in a wage-and-hour lawsuit just days before a trial, finding that judgment for the lead named plaintiff on his individual claims did not moot his interest in appealing decertification but that the decertification was justified based on various “shortcomings” by class counsel....