Ho Representative Cases

• Chau v. Starbucks, No. GIC 836925 (Superior Court, San Diego County) (trial counsel winning $105 million judge verdict and injunction for certified class of over 120,000 baristas who alleged that Starbucks violates California law by allowing its “agents” to share in a tip pool with baristas)

• Mousai v. E-Loan, Inc., No. 06-01993 SI (N.D. Cal.) (co-lead counsel in $13.6 million settlement in overtime class action for mortgage salespeople approved in May 2007)

• Lin v. Siebel Systems, Inc., No. CIV 435601 (Superior Court, San Mateo County) (final approval of $27.5 million class action settlement granted in May 2007 in overtime case for certified class of over 800 software engineers)

• Butler v. Countrywide, No. BC 268250 (Superior Court, Los Angeles County) ($30 million class settlement for over 450 misclassified account executives approved in 2005)

• Savings and Loan Overtime Case (co-lead counsel in $900,000 class action settlement for 111 underwriters for claims of unpaid overtime and annual bonus)

• Chinese Progressive Association v. Anna Wong, et al., Case No. A11568 (California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District) (successful counsel for appellant in appeal of fee award against non-profit community organization for bringing UCL claims on behalf of garment workers who were denied any payment of wages for hours worked)

• Tokar v. GEICO, No. GIC 810166 (Superior Court, San Diego County) (class of over 3,000 telephone center workers seeking overtime pay; filed May 5, 2003; final approval of $3.3 million settlement granted on July 9, 2004)

• Cruz, et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, et al., No. C01-00892 CRB (N.D. Cal.) (representing putative class of WWII era braceros for return of “savings fund” wages)

• Gentry v. Superior Court (Circuit City Stores), No. S141502 (Cal. 2007) (counsel for amici curiae in overtime case involving class action waiver in arbitration agreement)

• In Re: Sepulveda v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Litigation, No. 2:04-cv-01003-DSF-E (9th Cir.) (counsel for amici curiae in case involving class certification in wage and hour case)

• Sav-on Drug Stores, Inc. v. Superior Court, 34 Cal.4th 319 (2004) (counsel for amici curiae in case involving class certification standards in California)

• Morillion v. Royal Packing Co., 22 Cal.4th 575 (2000) (counsel for amici curiae in case involving definition of “hours worked” under California Labor Code)

• Earley v. Superior Court, 79 Cal.App.4th 1420 (2000) (counsel for amici curiae in case involving California’s one-wage fee shifting statute for overtime wage claims)

• Cuadra v Millan, 17 Cal. 4th 855 (1998) (writ proceeding successfully challenging DLSE’s practice of calculating back wages from date of hearing rather than date of filing of claim)

• Bureerong v. Uvawas, 922 F. Supp. 1450 (C.D. Cal. 1996) (group action for wages and other damages for Thai sweatshop workers held in virtual “slave” sweatshop)

• Sale v. HCC, 509 U.S. 155 (1993) (unsuccessful challenge to U.S. policy of interdicting on the high seas Haitians fleeing from Haiti and returning them to Haiti without determining whether those returned are refugees as defined under international law)

• HCC v. Sale, 823 F. Supp. 1028 (E.D.N.Y. 1993) (successfully challenging U.S. policy of indefinite detention of Haitian refugees who tested positive for HIV)