(Subscription required) A Los Angeles judge ruled that a former Manhattan Beach employee may proceed anonymously in a hostile work environment suit, citing concerns about reputational harm, mental health and future career prospects.

The Sixth District Court of Appeal yesterday reinstated an action based on alleged Labor Code violations, finding that a judge erred in dismissing it as a sanction for filing a frivolous lawsuit, with a dissenter maintaining that  his collogues were improperly reversing a judgment based on a theory that was not argued on appeal.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that an outside salesperson qualifies as an “exempt employee” under a Labor Code provision setting forth calculation methods for determining the appropriate sick leave compensation for different categories of workers, declining to adopt the contrary position taken by the Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement in an opinion letter dated October 2016.

The California Supreme Court held yesterday that the appropriate response to remedy a trial court’s abuse of discretion in granting a defense motion to dismiss an allegation that the defendant has suffered a qualifying offense under California’s “Three Strikes” law is an open-ended remand for reconsideration of the request and not to order the automatic reinstatement of the enhancement.