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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 Question not identified.
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 evid…
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 1. Whether time spent on "integral and indispensable" activities is measured based on reasonable duration (as three circuits have held), or actual dur…
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 1. Does the Fifth Amendment require appellate courts to rule on a petitioner's briefed arguments and alleged facts rather than unraised theories and f…
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 1. Whether under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") an employer's single unrelated prior interaction with the Department of Labor ("DOL") is suffic…
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 Question not identified.
24A990 East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor Third Circuit 2025-04-16 Presumed Complete de-minimis-exception fair-labor-standards-act integral-and-indispensable portal-to-portal-act preliminary-postliminary-activities steiner-v-mitchell Question not identified.
24A946 Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas v. Signet Builders, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-04 Presumed Complete bristol-myers-squibb collective-action fair-labor-standards-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-4 opt-in-plaintiff personal-jurisdiction This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, not a petition itself. It does not contain a "Questio…
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.…
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 1) Did the Third Circuit err by failing to transfer the appeal to the Federal Circuit, even though the Tucker Act was irrefutably involved in the Dist…
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 Question not identified.
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 The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) creates an overtime exemption for "administrative" employees as that term is "defined and delimited from time to t…
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 furtherance of public works projects for the government charged with their custody and care may qualify as "employees" unde…
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 Question not identified.
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 1. Whether an employer who pays an employee a guaranteed weekly amount that exceeds the salary level test and who is also paid additional compensation…
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, which exempts from required compensation all activities that are "preliminary" or "postliminary" to employees' p…
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 This case presents a clear conflict among the circuit courts regarding the interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et…
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 1. whether an employee is paid on a salary basis for purposes of the EAP exemptions to the FLSA and its implementing regulations, 29 C.F.R. § 541.604(…
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 by withholding attendant care service payment that were …
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 1) 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…
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 Question not identified.
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 either the Anti-Deficiency Act or the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act displace, modify or require a special narrower interpretation of the o…
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 1. Whether lawfully incarcerated civil contemnors that voluntarily chose to participate in a discretionary work release program have a claim under the…
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 there is any room for a rule interpreting the FLSA's exemptions narrowly, rather than fairly, after this Court's decision in Encino Motorcars,…
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 1. Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act allows an employee, who has been paid at least the required minimum wage and overtime pay at a rate that is at…
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 1. Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Due Process Clause permit a collective action to be certified and tried to verdict based upon testimon…
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 because the standalone regulatory exemption set forth in 29 C.F.R. §54…
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 1. In Wal-Mart v. Dukes, this Court rejected "Trial by Formula" in disapproving the use of representative testimony for certification of Rule 23 class…
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, under the FLSA, per-diem allowances for traveling expenses, which are reduced when the employee fails to work a contractually required shift,…
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 1. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States court of ap…
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 This Court has long held that whether a worker is an employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") turns on the "economic reality" of…
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, as the Second Circuit held, Petitioners' door-to-door solicitors are exempt "outside salesmen" under the FLSA or, as the Sixth Circuit held, …
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), because some of the produ…
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 The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides a 2-year period for recovery of back wages, which may be increased to 3 years if the employer's failure t…
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 In this case, the State of Tennessee Attorney General and Reporter issued a legal opinion which affected the civil action of Edward Bonny Arnold v. Bo…
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 preced…
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? Whether the "outside sales" exemption applies to Lin…
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 1) Plaintiff worked as a Monitor Technician observing cardiac monitors at Alameda Health System in 2013. Plaintiff was fired from Alameda Health Syste…
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 Respondents, on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated home care workers in the State of California's In-Home Supportive Services ("IHSS") …
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 1. How can I be terminated for something that I wasn't even at work when it occurred and the lower court say isn't discrimination? 2. How can I be te…
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 generally and/or for Title VII and/or 42 U.S.C. 1983 and/or ADA, with regards to pro se parties If a Defamation per se claim is bl…
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 1. The 5th Circuit erred when it affirmed the trial Court's granting of Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment against all Petitioners on the issue …
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 The last time this case was here, the Court unanimously held that time spent by employees in post-shift security screenings is not compensable worktim…
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…