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The court granted final approval of an $11.85 million class action settlement between plaintiff Linda Scheid and PNC Bank, N.A., resolving wage and hour claims under California Labor Code and PAGA. The settlement includes individual payments to class members, a $10,000 service payment to the class representative, $3.95 million in attorney's fees, and $67,471.78 in litigation costs.
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Disability discrimination perceived prima facie transitory and minor. A plaintiff claiming disability discrimination cannot make out a prima facie case of being perceived as disabled if the plaintiff's injuries are transitory and minor — defined under federal law as an impairment with an actual or expected duration of six months or less. Although plaintiff-employee had been placed on disability leave after breaking bones in both hands, her injuries healed and she returned to work in six weeks. The court did not err by directing a verdict in favor the defendant-employer because the plaintiff's injuries were thus transitory and minor, excluding her from a "perceived as" disabled discrimination claim.
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