California Appellate Panel Deems Class Certification Order Not Appealable

(July 16, 2020, 7:48 AM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A California trial court’s order partially granting and partially denying a class certification motion in an employee’s wage-and-hour lawsuit is not appealable, the death knell doctrine does not apply due to the partial certification and there has been no showing of extraordinary circumstances that would warrant treating the appeal as a petition for writ of mandate, a California appellate panel ruled July 8 in an unpublished opinion dismissing the appeal (David Meza v. Pacific Bell Telephone Company, No. F077604, Calif. App., 5th Dist., 2020 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4293)....