Barnhill v. Robert Saunders & Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employer was not liable for late payment penalties where it erroneously believed it was legally entitled to set off from the employee’s final wages amounts that the employee owed to it because the state of law on the matter was unclear
• disallowing setoff of employee's exempt wages against debts owed to employer
• “Ja]s used in section 203, “willful” merely means that the employer intentionally failed or refused to perform an act which was required to be done”
• Defendant “intentionally failed ... to perform an act which was required to be done.”
• employers do not need an 19 intent to defraud to violate section 203
• legal ambiguity is a valid basis for a good-faith defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).