Alvarez v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• providing that a collective action may be inappropriate if “determining whether any given plaintiff ha[s] a viable claim dependfs] on a detailed, faetspecific inquiry”
• explaining that collective actions may be decertified at step two if the court finds that alleged similarly situated individuals actually represent separate classes or individual claims
• “When a collective action is decertified, it reverts to one or more individual actions on behalf of the named plaintiffs.”
• “When a collective action is decerti- fied, it reverts to one or more individual actions on behalf of the named plaintiffs.”
• “When a collective action is decerti- fied, it reverts to one or more individual actions on behalf of the named plaintiffs.”
• “The [FLSA] gives employees the right to bring their FLSA claims through a ‘collective action’ on behalf of themselves and other ‘similarly situated’ employees.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).