Court Opinion

ID: 9725944
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 12:21:55.170812+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:21.665802
License: Public Domain

PUGLIA, P. J.
I concur in the result and in the reasoning upon which it is based. However, I wish to disassociate myself from any implication in the court’s opinion that there may be circumstances in which the provisions of the ALRA preempt the penal statutes of this state, specifically the criminal trespass laws. In the face of the ALRB’s claim to exclusive jurisdiction over this controversy, it is enough to point out, as we do, that farm labor contractors are not agricultural employers and are therefore excluded from the scope of the ALRA. The observation that “the ALRA apparently incorporates into California law the general features of the preemption doctrine” (majority opn., ante, p. 205) is gratuitous, unnecessary, and of questionable validity.