They clearly weren’t prepared for the bitter cold of late March in Washington, D.C., but the California businessmen and women standing on the marble steps of the Supreme Court seemed positively thrilled to be there.
Inside, attorneys delivered their oral arguments in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana. The issue: a California supreme court decision called Iskanian and a unique law called the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Attorneys for the Viking River Cruises say that the California court’s Iskanian decision violates their federal right to bring employee grievances to an arbitrator. Attorneys representing plaintiff Angie Moriana would prefer to use PAGA to address such grievances, which might create a windfall for the State of California and the plaintiff’s attorneys.
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