| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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… |