FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
MAY 03 2017
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
MARIA DEL CARMEN PENA; ) No. 15-15965
CONSUELO HERNANDEZ; )
LETICIA SUAREZ; ROSEMARY ) D.C. No. 2:13-cv-01282-KJM-AC
DAIL; WENDELL T. MORRIS, )
) MEMORANDUM*
Plaintiffs-Appellees, )
)
v. )
)
TAYLOR FARMS PACIFIC, INC., )
DBA Taylor Farms, )
)
Defendant-Appellant, )
)
and )
)
ABEL MENDOZA, INC.; )
MANPOWER, INC.; QUALITY )
FARM LABOR, INC.; SLINGSHOT )
CONNECTIONS LLC, )
)
Defendants. )
)
MARIA DEL CARMEN PENA; ) No. 15-15966
CONSUELO HERNANDEZ; )
LETICIA SUAREZ; ROSEMARY ) D.C. No. 2:13-cv-01282-KJM-AC
DAIL; WENDELL T. MORRIS, )
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
)
Plaintiffs-Appellees, )
)
v. )
)
ABEL MENDOZA, INC., )
)
Defendant-Appellant, )
)
and )
)
TAYLOR FARMS PACIFIC, INC., )
DBA Taylor Farms; MANPOWER, )
INC.; QUALITY FARM LABOR, )
INC.; SLINGSHOT )
CONNECTIONS LLC, )
)
Defendants. )
)
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of California
Kimberly J. Mueller, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted April 19, 2017
San Francisco, California
Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, and FERNANDEZ and MURGUIA, Circuit
Judges.
Taylor Farms Pacific, Inc. (“TFP”) and Abel Mendoza, Inc. (“AMI”) appeal
the district court’s order1 which granted class certification to a class comprised of
1
Pena v. Taylor Farms Pac., Inc., 305 F.R.D. 197 (E.D. Cal. 2015) (hereafter
Taylor Farms I).
2
current and former employees who allegedly did not receive the meal breaks
required by California law while working at TFP’s produce and food processing
facilities in Tracy, California.2 The representative members of the certified classes
are Maria Del Carmen Pena, Consuelo Hernandez, and Wendell T. Morris.3 We
affirm.
For the reasons set forth in its order,4 we affirm the district court’s grant of
“[c]ertification of the mixed hourly worker subclass . . . as to meal break claims,”
and its “[c]ertification of the waiting time subclass . . . [to the extent it] is
derivative of the mixed hourly workers subclass.”5 We express no opinion about
the district court’s determinations regarding the other subclasses.6
AFFIRMED.
2
Class certification was sought on a number of other grounds, but the issues
before us involve only a meal break subclass certification and a derivative waiting-
time subclass certification.
3
Morris is a representative member of the meal break subclass only.
4
See Taylor Farms I, 305 F.R.D. 197.
5
See id. at 224.
6
See id. at 207–11, 223–24.
3