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U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Lower Burden for Employer to Prove FLSA Overtime Exemption

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 1/30/2025

The Supreme Court recently clarified that an employer seeking to prove an exemption from overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) must meet the “preponderance of the evidence” standard, and not the...more

Settlement of Wage Claims Under FLSA Must Now be Approved by the Court

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 9/8/2015

A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that parties may not stipulate to dismiss cases brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act without court approval. This ruling may make it more...more

Supreme Court to Decide Class Action Issues Involving Settlement Offers to Named Plaintiffs, Statistical Sampling and Class Member...

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/17/2015

I’ve been delayed a bit in reporting on this, but the October 2015 term of the U.S. Supreme Court is shaping up to be a blockbuster one for class action law. Perhaps even bigger than the October 2010 term, which brought us...more

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Addressing Scope of Wage and Hour Class and Collective Actions

BakerHostetler on 6/11/2015

It’s hard enough to predict what the Supreme Court will do on a given case even after it has been briefed and oral argument has been heard. It’s even harder when all we have is the decision accepting certiorari, but this one...more

Dukes Of Hazard: Uniform Auto-Deduct Meal/Break Policy Insufficient to Establish 23(a)(2) Commonality

BakerHostetler on 7/18/2013

The Supreme Court’s Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes opinion has once again played Bo and Luke to a plaintiff’s Boss Hogg. ...more

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