SAN FRANCISCO — California’s highest court sounded ready Tuesday to throw out a $15 million overtime class action that employers describe as a poster child for the misuse of statistical evidence.
But the court seemed reluctant to devise broad new rules limiting the use of statistics and sampling, which should come as a relief to plaintiffs lawyers anxious about another blow to employment class actions.
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