American TCP Corp. v. Shell Oil Co.

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• ruling that failure to file a provisional precertification alone is not a basis for sustaining objection
• objecting party must submit affidavits or other evidence demonstrating specifically how discovery is overly broad or burdensome
• declining to limit discovery to the same department or facility where the plaintiffs were employed and noting that collective actions “require a broader scope of discovery in order to identify those employees who may be similarly situated”
• “Other lower courts addressing whether to permit discovery of the names and addresses of other similarly-situated employees in section 216(b) FLSA actions have almost universally permitted discovery of this information.”
• \Other lower courts addressing whether to permit discovery of the names and addresses of other similarly-situated employees in section 216(b) FLSA actions have almost universally permitted discovery of this information.\
• “The familiar litany of general objections, including overly broad, burdensome, oppressive will not alone constitute a successful objection to an interrogatory nor will a general objection fulfill the objecting party’s burden to explain its objections.”

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