Plaintiffs brought this action against Defendant, the Board of Public Education for Bibb County, to recover for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the Board, and this appeal followed. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the district court's decision in part and reverse in part.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs are D

This appeal presents two related issues under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et. seq.: (1) whether a domestic service employee, employed by a third party employer rather than directly by the family of the person receiving care, is exempt from the overtime requirements of the FLSA pursuant to the companion services exemption, and (2) what level of deference is due to

Traci Otto, on behalf of herself and all other employees similarly situated sued Pocono Health System and Pocono Medical Center alleging that Pocono had failed to comply with the technical requirements of federal law in implementing its "8 and 80" overtime pay system. Otto also alleged that Pocono's pay practices violated the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act and the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and

Plaintiff Jacqueline Davis (Davis) appeals the district court's order dismissing her action and compelling arbitration under 9 U.S.C. § 4 based upon an arbitration agreement with her former employer, Defendant O'Melveny & Myers (O'Melveny). On appeal, Davis challenges the enforceability of the arbitration agreement, contending that it is unconscionable under California law. The merits of

Plaintiff, Carla Mutchler, appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment to Defendants, Dunlap Memorial Hospital and Kathy Loede, on her claim that Defendants violated the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq. Plaintiff's appeal rests on two claims: first, that she met the "hours of service" requirement for purposes of FMLA eligibility; and second, that

Susan Knapp appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment to America West Airlines on Mrs. Knapp's claims alleging violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we AFFIRM.

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Mrs. Knapp was a pilot for America West. In 1995, she and her husband noticed that their eldest son, born in 1986, d

Current and former store managers of Family Dollar Stores claimed Defendant misclassified them as exempt employees under the "executive exemption to the FLSA. Plaintiffs maintained that because their primary duty was not management and that they spent 80-95% of their time unloading trucks, cleaning the store and stocking shelves that they were nothing more than salaried labor workers, i.e.,

Plaintiffs, 35 former union employees of Kowa Printing Corporation, brought an action under the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act (the Wage Act) (820 ILCS 115/1 et seq. (West 2004)) against defendants, Kowa Printing Corporation, Thomas W. Kowa, and Huston-Patterson Corporation. Plaintiffs alleged that they were owed unpaid vacation time and severance pay and that all three defendants wer

Plaintiff Davis Shikles appeals from a district court order granting summary judgment to Defendant Sprint/United Management Company ("Sprint") in Shikles' lawsuit alleging that Sprint violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq., by denying him promotions and terminating him. (Aplt. App. at 12-13, 485, 510.) This appeal presents three important legal i

Alemayehu Getachew, proceeding pro se, appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment to his former employer 7-Eleven, Inc. in this action alleging national origin discrimination and harassment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17 (Title VII). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

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Mr. Getachew was born in

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Cingular, a provider of wireless telecommunication services, is headquartered in Atlanta , Ga.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., an employer may not employ a person for more than 40 hours per workweek unless the employee receives overtime compensation of at least one-and-a-half times the regular hourly rate for hours exceeding 40. Id. at § 207(a)(2)(c). The FLSA creates an exemption to its overtime requirement, however, for people "employed in

Plaintiffs are paramedics and emergency medical technicians ("EMTs") (collectively the "EMS workers" or "EMS employees") employed by the City of Houston Fire Department. The Daley Plaintiffs are a subset of a group of approximately 2,600 fire department employees consisting of fire suppression,1 telemetry, dispatch, and arson investigation personnel (the "Vela Plaintiffs"). The Vela Plain

Appellants in these consolidated appeals are law enforce-ment officers of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety ("DPS") who filed actions against both the Navajo Nation and the United States claiming violations of the Fair Labor Stan-dards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219. The district court dismissed the claims against the Navajo Nation, holding that law enforcement was an intr

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In this class action for unpaid overtime, Farmers Insurance Exchange (FIE) has filed separate notices of appeal from a judgment awarding the plaintiffs' class $90,009,208.12 for unpaid overtime compensation, plus prejudgment interest of $32,303,048 and from a series of postjudgment orders that inter alia adopted a plan of distribution and awarded common fund attorney fees and costs. We reve

An employer is not required to pay overtime to an employee who provides companionship services to the aged or infirm in a private home. The plaintiff employees here provided services to developmentally disabled persons in a variety of living arrangements. In determining whether these living arrangements qualified as private homes, the district court analyzed the various living arrangements as a

Roy Hillstrom, then age 42, was terminated from his job at the Best Western TLC Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts in April 2002. His boss, Matthew Phipps, said it was for poor job performance. Hillstrom sued, alleging he had been discriminated against because of his age and gender. He also claimed that Best Western violated the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., by c