August 14, 2026
A California federal judge gave final approval Friday to a $12 million settlement resolving a 12-year-old class action accusing San Francisco Hilton Inc. of withholding portions of service charges from 1,152 banquet servers and bussers at its Union Square hotel.
August 07, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a former NBA announcer's wrongful termination suit against a radio station. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
March 20, 2026
In the next week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit en banc oral arguments in a jurisdictional dispute involving two unions, the National Labor Relations Board and the precedent known as Kinder Morgan. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
April 19, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a potential ruling on whether a class of hotel banquet event workers can continue together with wage claims against San Francisco Hilton Inc., in a long-running case that paid a visit to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
January 31, 2024
A Hilton hotel in San Francisco has failed to produce "responsive and highly relevant" documents during discovery in a suit accusing the hotel operator of pocketing tips meant for banquet servers, workers said in a motion to impose sanctions filed in California federal court Wednesday.
December 05, 2023
A California federal judge will not allow Hilton Management LLC to immediately appeal his decision preserving claims that the hotel operator pocketed tips bound for banquet servers, ruling Tuesday that another court would not likely rule that service fees charged to customers weren't tips.
August 09, 2023
A California federal judge will continue overseeing banquet servers' long-running challenge to a San Francisco Hilton's tipping policy even though the lawsuit no longer contains federal law claims, saying he's exercising supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state law claim after "substantial work" was invested in the nearly decade-old case.