{"id":363003,"date":"2026-06-16T17:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363003\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:21:29","slug":"san-francisco-giants-guards-wage-case-returned-to-state-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363003\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Giants Guard\u2019s Wage Case Returned to State Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants must face a former ballpark security guard\u2019s wage-and-hour claims in state court after failing waiting too long to shift the case to a federal forum, a district judge in California said.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Baseball Associates LLC\u2014the organization behind the Major League Baseball team \u2014failed to seek to remove the proposed class action within the allowed 30-day window, according to a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/ALLAN_SWEARINGTON_Plaintiff_v_SAN_FRANCISCO_BASEBALL_ASSOCIATES_L?doc_id=X8C8V700000N\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruling<\/a> in the US District Court for the Northern District of California granting the worker\u2019s remand motion.<\/p>\n<p>Theteam had argued that the case belonged in federal court because federal labor law preempted the worker\u2019s state-law &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco Giants must face a former ballpark security guard\u2019s wage-and-hour claims in state court after failing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[113299,7684,147518,14959,17526,8851,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-363003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-business-expense-reimbursement","tag-class-actions","tag-collective-bargaining-agreements","tag-preemption","tag-preliminary-and-postliminary-activities","tag-removal","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}