A. B. Kirschbaum Co. v. Walling

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that maintenance workers in a building that did produce goods for interstate commerce were covered under the FLSA
• holding that maintenance workers of clothing manufacturer were covered under the FLSA
• elevator operators employed by owner who leased his building to tenants, some of whom manufactured goods shipped interstate, were directly engaged in commerce by carrying in elevators the finished products
• privately employed fire fighters guarding a manufacturing plant involved in interstate commerce
• broad interpretation to include maintenance workers in loft building where goods for interstate commerce were manufactured, approved in Senate Report No. 145, 87th Cong., 1st Sess., U.S.Code Cong, and Admin.News, pp. 1620, 1662 (1961)
• unlike other APA proceedings that involve an administrative record, the “[FLSA] puts upon the courts the independent, responsibility of applying ad hoc the general terms of the statute to an infinite variety of complicated industrial situations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).