Plaintiffs are a putative class
of unionized nurses who sued their employer in state court for
unpaid wages and overtime pay for work performed outside their
approved shifts. Their employer removed the case to federal court,
citing the doctrine of complete preemption, under which claims
requiring interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement
("CBA") are reclass... More...    $0 (08-23-2016 - MA)

The facts of the case are quite straightforward. GNC
sells health and wellness products through company-owned stores
throughout the United States. Lalli was a store manager at a GNC
store in Massachusetts. As a store manager, Lalli earned a
guaranteed weekly salary regardless of the hours worked that week
and a non-discretionary sales commission that varied based upon <... More...    $0 (02-14-2016 - MA)

On certified interlocutory
review under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), we hold that a rejected and
withdrawn offer of settlement of the named plaintiff's individual
claims in a putative class action made before the named plaintiff
moved to certify a class did not divest the court of subject matter
jurisdiction by mooting the named plaintiff's claims.
I. Background
ACT, Inc., is a... More...    $0 (08-21-2015 - MA)

The plaintiff, Donna Vitali, worked as a bookkeeper for the defendant, Reit Management and Research, LLC (company), a property management firm. She was paid by the hour and, pursuant to both statute and company policy, she was to be paid overtime at one and one-half times the regular rate for any
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work done in excess of forty hours in a given week. See G. L. c. 151, § 1A. She broug... More...    $0 (08-22-2015 - MA)

Appellants Crystal Litz and
Amanda Payne ("plaintiffs") claim unpaid overtime wages for their
work as project managers for The Saint Consulting Group, Inc.
("Saint Consulting"). The district court concluded that plaintiffs
were "highly compensated employees" and thus exempt from the
overtime pay protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA").
29 U.S.C. § 213(a)(1); 2... More...    $0 (11-04-2014 - MA)

Appellee Flight Services fired Appellant Joseph Travers as he pursued a lawsuit against the company under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). Flight Services says it terminated Travers for violating company policy. Travers says he was fired in retaliation for his FLSA lawsuit. Because a reasonable jury could return a verdict for Travers without relying on improbable inferences or unsupported s... More...    $0 (12-12-2013 - MA)

Plaintiffs Elizabeth Manning, Lisa Rivers, Rhonda Williams, and Reva McCarthy bring this wage-and-hour action against defendants Boston Medical Center Corporation ("BMC"), Elaine Ullian, and James Canavan. Current and former BMC employees, plaintiffs allege that defendants deprived them of their wages through the use of timekeeping policies and employment practices that required them to work thro... More...    $0 (08-01-2013 - MA)

This appeal embraces two of the many private lawsuits brought against healthcare providers throughout the country by a single law firm. These two suits, like others of the same pattern, allege that various hospital employees who work for the particular hospital or hospital group have been deprived of compensation for work performed during their meal break, for work performed before and after shift... More...    $0 (04-18-2012 - MA)

Christine Hines originally brought this action in Massachusetts state court against the State Room, Inc., where she formerly was employed. In the amended complaint, which was before the district court following removal, Ms. Hines and her coplaintiffs sought unpaid overtime wages that they claimed were due under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSAâ€�), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219, and related... More...    $0 (11-29-2011 - MA)

A.S.A.P. Fire & Safety Corporation and its owners Joseph Sheedy and Brian Cote (collectively "A.S.A.P."), appeal from a district court judgment. Fryer v. A.S.A.P. Fire & Safety Corp., No. 1:09-CV-10178 (D. Mass. Jan. 25, 2010) (Final Judgment). The district court awarded damages against A.S.A.P. for violating the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, 38 U.S.C. §§ 4311 et seq... More...    $0 (09-09-2011 - MA)

This case under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") raises an issue about whether a city or town must give notice to its public safety officers as a matter of federal law before the municipality takes advantage of a special statutory exemption for these officers from usual overtime requirements, 29 U.S.C. § 207(k). We hold no such notice is required.

Plaintiffs are police off... More...    $0 (03-23-2010 - MA)

This interlocutory appeal requires us to determine whether defendant-appellant Andrea Cabral, the duly elected Sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, is entitled to qualified immunity in connection with her decision to strip several jail officers of their commissions as deputy sheriffs, allegedly in retaliation for their support of her opponent during the 2004 election cycle. The district court... More...    $0 (03-12-2009 - ma)

Two managers brought a class action suit against their former employer, Dynamics Research Corporation ("DRC"), for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), ... More...    $0 (12-03-2007 - MA)

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 ch... More...    $0 (01-05-2004 - MA)

Plaintiff-appellant Stephen J. Kearney, a police officer, repeatedly took issue with his employer, the Town of Wareham (the Town), over the extent of the Town's obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219 (FLSA). He asserts that the Town and its hierarchs, angered because he had prevailed in those disputes, cashiered him. Claiming illegal retaliation, he sued the Town, its... More...    $0 (12-11-2002 - MA)

Plaintiffs-appellees, Karen Lynn Bienkowski, David Eberle, Delia Ann Hoye, and Edward McDonald, were at all relevant times employed as police officers for the defendant, Northeastern University, and were compensated on an hourly basis. Defendant-appellant Northeastern University (Northeastern) is a private not-for-profit university located in Boston, Massachusetts. As a condition of employme... More...    $0 (04-12-2002 - MA)