Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the district court did not abuse its discretion when it decertified a plaintiff class it had earlier conditionally certified
• stating that “[bjecause the court has minimal evidence [at the first tier], this determination is made using a fairly lenient standard”
• finding that “[bjecause the court has minimal evidence, [the notice] determination is made using a fairly lenient standard”
• stating that direct evidence of discrimination is that which shows that the employer in question “actually relied on [the forbidden factor] in making its decision”
• noting that similarity is a fact question under Lusardi that “lends itself to ad hoc analysis on a case-by-case basis”
• finding that the ADEA “explicitly incorporates section 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act” meaning an “ADEA action follows an ‘opt-in’ rather than an ‘opt-out’ procedure”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).