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25A682 Medical Staffing of America, LLC, dba Steadfast Medical Staffing, a Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lori Chavez-Deremer, Secretary of Labor Fourth Circuit 2025-12-10 Application economic-realities-test employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor statutory-interpretation worker-status Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires courts to apply a uniform, predictable test for distinguishing between employees and independent contrac…
25-559 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. v. Andrew Harrington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-07 Pending Amici (1) circuit-split collective-action fair-labor-standards-act joinder notice-authorization similarly-situated Whether a district court may authorize notice inviting joinder to an FLSA collective action before a plaintiff shows by a preponderance of the evidenc…
25-534 Andrew Harrington, et al. v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-03 Pending collective-action fair-labor-standards-act forum-state nonresident-defendant opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court that has taken personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action mus…
24-1309 East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor Third Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split compensable-time fair-labor-standards-act preliminary-activities principal-activities statutory-interpretation Whether time spent on 'integral and indispensable' activities is measured based on reasonable duration or actual duration
24-1210 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. First Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act fifth-amendment rule-41-dismissal Does the Fifth Amendment require appellate courts to rule on a petitioner's briefed arguments and alleged facts rather than unraised theories and fact…
24-1171 Nursing Home Care Management, Inc., dba Prestige Home Care Agency, et al. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor Third Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied department-of-labor employee-compensation fair-labor-standards-act notice-requirement portal-to-portal-act willful-violation Whether an employer's single prior interaction with the DOL is sufficient to establish notice of FLSA provisions for future alleged willful violations…
24A1064 Robert Mayfield, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-02 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act exempt-status fair-labor-standards-act legislative-vesting-clause minimum-salary-requirements nondelegation-doctrine Whether the Department of Labor exceeded its statutory authority under the Fair Labor Standards Act by imposing minimum salary requirements as a condi…
24-785 Kristen Silloway, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California Ninth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Response Waived exemption-requirements fair-labor-standards-act helix-energy-solutions hourly-rate-employees overtime-pay salary-basis-test Whether employees paid an hourly rate applied to the number of hours worked each pay period can satisfy the salary-basis requirement in 29 C.F.R. 541.…
24A609 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. First Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process fair-labor-standards-act judicial-procedure res-judicata rule-41 Whether a federal appellate court can dismiss a plaintiff's claims by mischaracterizing their legal arguments and failing to address substantive due p…
24-6179 Steven D'Agostino v. Gary A. Ashworth, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Third Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals fair-labor-standards-act federal-employee-wages jurisdictional-transfer minimum-wage-calculation tucker-act Whether the Third Circuit erred in jurisdictional transfer and federal employee wage calculations under the Tucker Act and FLSA
24-626 F.W. Webb Company v. Vincent N. Micone, III, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor First Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied administrative-exemption employment-law fair-labor-standards-act judicial-interpretation labor-regulations regulatory-compliance Whether the First Circuit's 'relational analysis' improperly determines FLSA administrative exemption by focusing on employer's business instead of em…
24-515 Baltimore County, Maryland v. Michael A. Scott, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment-classification fair-labor-standards-act government-custodian inmate-labor public-works-project wage-regulation Whether inmates working in public works projects for their government custodian may qualify as 'employees' under the Fair Labor Standards Act
24A206 Baltimore County, Maryland v. Michael A. Scott, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete employment-status fair-labor-standards-act inmate-labor minimum-wage statutory-interpretation work-detail Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires compensation for inmate labor performed at a government-operated recycling facility outside of a detenti…
23-1077 Mark Wilson v. Schlumberger Technology Corporation Tenth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied administrative-exemption executive-exemption fair-labor-standards-act professional-exemption reasonable-relationship salary-basis Whether an employer who pays an employee a guaranteed weekly amount that exceeds the salary level test and who is also paid additional compensation on…
23-954 Precision Drilling Corp., et al. v. Rodney Tyger, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split detrimental-effects donning-and-doffing employment-compensation fair-labor-standards-act job-specific-hazards labor-law preliminary-or-postliminary-activities protective-clothing wage-and-hour Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to compensate employees for donning and doffing generic protective clothing
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials Whether state officials are subject to liability as employers in their individual capacity for violations of the FLSA
23-706 Brent Hebert, et al. v. FMC Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response Waived 29-usc-216b collective-action employment-law exemptions fair-labor-standards-act overtime-pay procedural-joinder salary-basis wage-exemption whether an employee is paid on a salary basis for purposes of the EAP exemptions to the FLSA and its implementing regulations, 29 CFR. § 541.604(b), i…
23-557 Shirley Carter v. Community Living Case Management, et al. Oregon 2023-11-22 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act attendant-care-services disability-discrimination discrimination fair-labor-standards-act home-and-community-based-services medicaid medicaid-agency person-centered-plan rehabilitation-act social-security-act Whether the Medicaid agency Nullified or ignored its Federal and State statutory requirements
23-473 James E. Bachman, et al. v. John Q. Bachman, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-labor due-process employment employment-retaliation equitable-defenses fair-labor-standards-act labor-law retaliation standing wage-dispute Whether a case can be dismissed for plaintiffs' refusal to answer questions related to past and current employers in a deposition related to a wage an…
23A322 Medical Transportation Management, Inc. v. Isaac Harris, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete class-certification commonality-requirement fair-labor-standards-act general-contractor joint-employer wage-and-hour-laws Whether a class of employees can satisfy Rule 23(a)(2)'s commonality requirement by alleging violations of the same wage-and-hour laws against a contr…
23-343 Donald Martin, Jr., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2) anti-deficiency-act fair-labor-standards-act federal-employees government-employee-fair-treatment-act minimum-wage overtime overtime-compensation wage-obligations Do the Anti-Deficiency Act or the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act displace, modify or require a special narrower interpretation of the FLSA obl…
23-217 E.M.D. Sales, Inc., et al. v. Faustino Sanchez Carrera, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-08 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) burden-of-proof circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence employment-law fair-labor-standards-act flsa-exemptions overtime-pay preponderance-of-evidence wage-exemption Whether the burden of proof that employers must satisfy to demonstrate the applicability of an FLSA exemption is a mere preponderance of the evidence …
22-1034 Lackawanna Recycling Center, Inc. v. William L. Burrell, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-contemnors civil-rights due-process fair-labor-standards-act human-trafficking involuntary-servitude trafficking-victims-protection-act work-release work-release-program Whether lawfully incarcerated civil contemnors have a claim under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
22-918 Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-role economic-reality fair-labor-standards-act federalism joint-employment overtime-wages social-services-program suffer-or-permit-to-work Whether a county may be deemed a joint employer under the FLSA when it plays a mere administrative role in a State's social services program by legisl…
22-869 Signet Builders, Inc. v. Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas Seventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agricultural-exemption agriculture-exemption encino-motorcars-v-navarro fair-labor-standards-act guest-worker h-2a-visa h2a-visa narrow-construction-rule overtime-pay secondary-agriculture Whether the FLSA's agriculture exemption applies to H-2A visa workers performing secondary agriculture activities
22-396 Christa Fischer, et al. v. Federal Express Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bristol-myers bristol-myers-squibb collective-action due-process due-process-clause fair-labor-standards-act opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction service-of-process Whether a federal court has the authority, absent general personal jurisdiction over the defendant or the defendant's consent, to maintain a Fair Labo…
21-1538 Cleveland County, North Carolina, aka Cleveland County Emergency Medical Services v. Sara B. Conner, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) agency-interpretation fair-labor-standards-act minimum-wage overtime-pay skidmore-deference skidmore-v-swift statutory-interpretation straight-time-wages whether-the-fair-labor-standards-act-allows-an-employee-to-sue-for-unpaid-straight-time-wages
21-1192 Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc. v. John Waters, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated First Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-civil-procedure personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(1)(a) service-of-summons standing Whether out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to opt into an FLSA collective action pending in federal court must demonstrate that the forum state's courts …
21-1107 FTS USA, LLC, et al. v. Edward Monroe, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived class-certification collective-action damages due-process fair-labor-standards-act representative-sample representative-testimony seventh-amendment Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Due Process Clause permit a collective action to be certified and tried to verdict based upon testimony f…
21-1098 Laura Canaday, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. The Anthem Companies, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure collective-action due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-court opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction wage-and-hour Whether a federal court has the authority, absent general personal jurisdiction over the defendant or the defendant's consent, to maintain a Fair Labo…
21-984 Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., et al. v. Michael J. Hewitt Fifth Circuit 2022-01-11 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 000 each year is entitled to overtime pay because daily-rate-compensation executive-duties fair-labor-standards-act highly-compensated-employee highly-compensated-employees overtime-exemption overtime-pay regulatory-exemption regulatory-interpretation salary-basis Whether a supervisor making over $200,000 each year is entitled to overtime pay
21-640 Five Star Automatic Fire Protection, L.L.C. v. Department of Labor Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied burden-shifting civil-rights class-action due-process evidentiary-rule fair-labor-standards-act overtime-pay representative-testimony wal-mart-v-dukes In light of Dukes and Tyson Foods, is this an important decision of a federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court?
21-296 AMN Services, LLC v. Verna Clarke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) employee-reimbursement fair-labor-standards-act overtime overtime-compensation per-diem-allowance per-diem-allowances regular-rate statutory-interpretation traveling-expenses Whether per-diem allowances for traveling expenses, which are reduced when the employee fails to work a contractually required shift, are excluded fro…
20-1500 Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius v. American Public University System, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process education-program employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act flsa-interpretation free-labor-system labor-exploitation student-employee student-rights thirteenth-amendment At what point does a student become an 'employee' for an employer, due to the various types of abuses and exploitation of a free labor system, in an e…
20-1414 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ali Razak, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split economic-reality employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor question-of-law right-to-control summary-judgment third-circuit Whether application of the FLSA's 'economic reality' factors to undisputed facts is a question of fact that can preclude summary judgment
20-1305 Douglas J. Holdings, Inc., et al. v. Joy Eberline, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Amici (2) all-circumstances discrete-tasks employee-classification employee-status employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act intern-status labor-law student-intern-trainee workplace-rights Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires a court to consider all the circumstances of the parties' relationship, or only those discrete tasks ide…
20-1093 Just Energy Marketing Corp., et al. v. Davina Hurt, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Amici (1) christopher-v-smithkline-beecham circuit-split employment-law fair-labor-standards-act outside-salesman regulatory-approval sales sales-exemption Whether Petitioners' door-to-door solicitors are exempt 'outside salesmen' under the FLSA
20-712 Leonid Burlaka, et al. v. Contract Transport Services, LLC Seventh Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce intrastate-transport shipper-intent statutory-exemption transportation-jurisdiction transportation-regulation Are drivers subject to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Transportation, and therefore exempt under 29 U.S.C. §213(b)(1)
20-660 Employer Solutions Staffing Group, LLC, et al. v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied contribution contribution-liability fair-labor-standards-act flsa-requirements joint-and-several-liability joint-employer notice-of-flsa-requirements overtime-wages wage-compliance willful-violation willfulness-standard Whether the FLSA's willfulness standard requires actual knowledge of non-compliance
20-257 Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., et al. v. Maxcimo Scott, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-01 Dismissed Amici (4)Relisted (5) civil-procedure class-certification collective-action district-court employment-law fair-labor-standards-act material-question opt-in-plaintiffs similarly-situated Whether a district court may consider factors other than the presence of a single material question of law or fact common to a group of employees when…
20-15 Pennymac Financial Services, Inc., et al. v. Erich Heidrich, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1738 enforcement-of-agreement fair-labor-standards-act federal-arbitration-act federal-substantive-law individualized-arbitration state-court-decision state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of an arbitration agreement as applied to Fair Labor Standards Act claims where the parties' …
19-1296 Helix TCS, Inc. v. Robert Kenney Tenth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied controlled-substances controlled-substances-act fair-labor-standards-act federal-drug-crime federal-drug-crimes marijuana-trafficking minimum-wages private-right-of-action tenth-circuit-ruling uniform-application-of-federal-law Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., confers a private right of action to recover minimum wages for conduct that violates t…
19-1274 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process electronic-filing equal-access-to-courts fair-labor-standards-act federal-holiday federal-holidays legal-opinion state-government subject-matter-jurisdiction wage-compensation Whether the State of Tennessee Attorney General's legal opinion denying earned wages for a substituted federal holiday violates federal labor laws
19-1210 Harry's Nurses Registry, et al. v. Claudia Gayle, et al. Second Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-enforcement condition-precedent employment-law fair-labor-standards-act private-right-of-action section-206 section-207 section-216(b) statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour Is the finding that the employer has violated Section 206 or Section 207 of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et. seq, a condition precede…
19-8202 Linda Gough v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company Fourth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied IFP civil-rights-act employee-classification employment-classification equal-pay-act fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor outside-sales-exemption title-vii-civil-rights-act wage-and-hour-law Whether Bankers Life properly classified Gough as an independent contractor and not an employee?
19-8012 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship fair-labor-standards-act government-agency governmental-agency governmental-investigation labor-code retaliation retaliation-claim statute-of-limitations unlawful-termination Shall the District Court toll the statute of limitations under the FLSA
19-856 Los Angeles County, California v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-preemption labor-law non-enforcement-policy overtime-wages sovereign-immunity state-action state-agency Whether a county, which acts as an agent of the state in administering a state social welfare program, is an arm of the state entitled to sovereign im…
19-6866 Sheila Jackson v. Garda CL East, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeco employment-discrimination fair-labor-standards-act gender-discrimination overtime-pay retaliation standing workplace-rights How can I be terminated for something that wasn't even at work when it occurred and the lower court say isn't discrimination?
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases
18-1541 Yassine Baouch, et al. v. Werner Enterprises, Inc., dba Werner Trucking, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied circuit-conflict employee-reimbursement employment-law fair-labor-standards-act internal-revenue-code minimum-wage per-diem per-diem-payments reimbursement wage-classification wages Under what circumstances do per diem payments to an employee constitute wages, rather than reimbursement, under section 207(e)(2) of the FLSA?
18-1419 Andrea Hirst, et al. v. SkyWest, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied ashcroft-v-iqbal context-specific fair-labor-standards-act iqbal-standard pleading-requirements rule-8 wage-violations workweek workweek-averaging Must an employee protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act always allege wage violations averaged across a specific seven-day workweek, or may an empl…
18-8736 Juan Espinoza, et al. v. San Benito Consolidated Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied IFP 5th-circuit civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act genuine-dispute-of-material-fact inferences-in-favor-of-non-moving-party standard-of-review summary-judgment trial-court wage-violations Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the trial court's grant of summary judgment on FLSA-wage-and-hour-violations
18-1154 Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., et al. v. Jesse Busk, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-court circuit-split employment-law exertion fair-labor-standards-act portal-to-portal-act security-screening work work-definition Whether the Portal-to-Portal Act modified the FLSA's broad, pre-1947 definition of 'work'
18-389 Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui…