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Ninth Circuit Clarifies Employers’ Obligation to Accommodate Religious Objections to Vaccines 

The recent hantavirus outbreak linked to an international cruise ship has once again put infectious disease risk, and mandates aimed at mitigating that risk, in the public spotlight. While health officials emphasize that the risk to the general public remains extremely low, the outbreak has triggered a familiar legal question:  how far must…

CA Supreme Court — Employees Have Broad Discovery Rights in PAGA Actions

Yesterday, in a unanimous 7-0 opinion, the California Supreme Court held in Williams v. Marshalls of CA that plaintiffs suing employers in Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) are entitled to broad discovery rights.  Specifically, the Court held that PAGA plaintiffs can force an employer-defendant to turn over the names and…