Exclusive Concurrent Jurisdiction Comes for PAGA #2

Shaw v. Superior Court, No. A163263 (D1d4 May 3, 2022)

PAGA case #1 is pending in LA. This case, filed in Contra Costa County is PAGA case #2 about the practice by the same employer. After JCCP coordination was denied, the court stayed this case under the doctrine of exclusive concurrent jurisdiction—essentially a rule that you can’t have the same lawsuit in two different courts at the same time. (In a PAGA clam, the plaintiff stands in the government’s shoes.) Although Plaintiff #2 makes some arguments that the doctrine doesn’t apply to PAGA cases, they aren’t very convincing. So her case was properly stayed.

Affirmed.