Abushalieh v. American Eagle Express, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that FLSA collective action on behalf of delivery drivers in several states including Pennsylvania was not duplicative of earlier filed class action seeking relief under Pennsylvania wage and hour laws on behalf of Pennsylvania delivery drivers
• same, where the first action was filed over a year before the second, duplicative action
• the first-filed rule applies when two actions “purport to represent the same group of injured parties against the same defendant”
• the first-filed rule applies when two actions “purport to represent the same group of injured parties against the same defendant”
• “Where each set of named plaintiffs intends to represent the other set, the underlying principles of the first-filed rule [apply.]” (emphasis added)
• “While in a typical civil action the presence of different defendants or different plaintiffs may result in cases that are not ‘materially on all fours’ with each other, such is not the case with two collective actions against the same defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).