Bates v. American Building & Loan Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]t is not possible for anyone to accurately ascertain whether an employee in fact worked off-the-clock simply by comparing the transactional data with that employee’s timekeeping records.”
• plaintiffs met burden for conditional certification of collective action where they alleged widespread though varied off-the-clock work
• “Section 216(b) of the FLSA provides for an opt-in class action on behalf of employees who are ‘similarly situated’ to the plaintiffs.”
• “[T]he standard of proof at this stage typically results in certification.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).