A California cemetery can try again to show there’s enough money at stake to defend a wage case in federal, not state, court because the district judge wrongly upped its evidentiary burden, an appellate court said.
Rose Hills Co. argued the would-be class action belongs in federal court because there’s more than $5 million at stake based on reasonable assumptions flowing from the workers’ state-court complaint. The district judge “imposed a more demanding evidentiary burden” and needs to take another look using the correct one, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said.
Workers say the funeral ...