Div. Five of the First District Court of Appeal has held that a trial judge erred in ordering judgment to be entered in favor of The Salvation Army in a putative wage class action based on a determination that participants in the group’s rehabilitation program, who were required to perform “work therapy” relating to the entity’s collection and sale of donated goods, were exempt volunteers solely because there was no compensation agreement between the parties.

Commissioner Benjamin Cassady oversees a high-volume, late-day criminal calendar far removed from the sitcom that shares its name.

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Div. Five of this district’s Court of Appeal has rejected a criminal defendant’s assertion that a court commissioner was not authorized, absent his stipulation, to preside over a bail review hearing, saying that such matters qualify as “subordinate” actions under the California Constitution even in light of the liberty issues at stake.