Anderson v. Sara Lee Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the FLSA preempts state law claims that \depend on establishing that [the defendant] violated the FLSA\
• recognizing that “plaintiffs could not enforce their FLSA rights by way of a § 1983 action”
• holding that plaintiffs’ state-law claims were barred by obstacle preemption because “Congress prescribed exclusive remedies in the FLSA for violations of its mandates”
• concluding that “FLSA-based contract, negligence, and fraud claims are precluded under a theory of obstacle preemption,” and noting that other courts have found “state claims to be preempted by the FLSA where those claims have merely duplicated FLSA claims”
• noting that plaintiffs cannot enforce their FLSA rights by way of a § 1983 action
• stating that the FLSA \expressly allows states to provide workers with more beneficial minimum wages and maximum workweeks than those mandated by the FLSA itself\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).