Aboudara v. City of Santa Rosa (May 10, 2019, Case No. 4:17-cv-01661-HSG)
May 10, 2019OUTCOME: Settled for $976,672.28., 2019
A wage and hour collective action for 129 Santa Rosa Fire Fighters.
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David Emilio Mastagni's Legal Cases (27)
Sacramento, CA
Class action Lawyer at Sacramento, CA
Practice Areas: Class Action, Constitutional ... +3 more
Cal Fire Local 2881 v. California Public Employees' Retirement System (2019), ---P.3d---, 2019 WL 1008413
Mar 04, 2019OUTCOME:
Filed amicus curiae brief in support of the Court's decision to preserve the California Rule.
Quiroz v. City of Ceres (E.D. Cal., Mar. 1, 2019, No. 117CV00444DADBAM) 2019 WL 1005071
Mar 01, 2019OUTCOME: Settled for $150,000.
A wage and hour collective action for 20 public safety employees.
Valentine v. Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District (E.D. Cal., Feb. 15, 2019, No. 217CV00827KJMEFB) 2019 WL 651654.
Feb 15, 2019OUTCOME: Settled for over $1.376 million.
An FLSA action over exclusion of holiday pay and cash in lieu of heath care benefits from fire fighters' overtime.
Englert v. City of Merced (E.D. Cal., Dec. 21, 2018, No. 118CV01239LJOSAB) 2018 WL 6727995
Dec 21, 2018OUTCOME:
Won a 12(b)(6) ruling holding that holiday pay must be included in fire fighters overtime rate of pay.
Seguin v. County of Tulare (E.D. Cal., Apr. 24, 2018, No. 116CV01262DADSAB) 2018 WL 1919823,
Feb 24, 2018OUTCOME: Settled for over $190,000.00.
An FLSA action on behalfof 135 deputies and fire fighters over the failure to include holiday pay and cash in lieu of heath care benefits in overtime.
Slezak v. City of Palo Alto (N.D. Cal., June 22, 2017, No. 16-CV-03224-LHK) 2017 WL 2688224
Jun 22, 2017OUTCOME: $165,00.00 recovery
Settled FLSA (Flores) collective action for on behalf of 8 plaintiffs and 83 putative plaintiffs.
City of Palo Alto v. Public Employment Relations Board (2016) 5 Cal.App.5th 1271, review denied (Mar. 15, 2017)
Mar 15, 2017OUTCOME: Obtained ruling ballot measure violated the MMBA
Obtained appellate Opinion holding the City of Palo Alto failed to consult in good faith with firefighters' union over city's vote to repeal city charter provision requiring binding interest arbitratio ... n upon impasses in wage negotiations.
Ketchum v. City of Vallejo, 523 F. Supp. 2d 1150 (E.D. Cal. 2007)
Jan 01, 2012OUTCOME: The claims were resolved through a bankruptcy settlement for for an aggregate claim of $659,880.00, a portion of which was discharged in bankruptcy.
At the time the opinion was issued Ketchum was/is the only published case holding that mounted unit officers must be paid overtime for time spend feeding, grooming, transporting and training horse main ... tained at the officers' residence but used for ancillary mounted patrol duties. The Court overturned a DOL Opinion letter to the contrary in finding liability against the City of Vallejo and rejected the City's good faith defense. The action was filed on behalf of 2 Vallejo Police Officers.
Horton et al v. County of Sacramento (2:09-cv-00806-FCD-KJN),
Jan 01, 2011OUTCOME: $210,000.00 settlement.
An action brought under the FLSA and grievance for vioaltion of MOU on behlaf of Sacramento County Probation Officers.