Beard v. District of Columbia Housing Authority

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \an otherwise valid accord and satisfaction cannot be a defense to [an] FLSA claim\
• denying plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment because ‘“Rule 56 does not contemplate a motion for partial summary judgment of the sort [plaintiff] has filed[,]” and judgment “may not be entered as to a fact or an element of a claim”’
• “Here, an otherwise valid accord and satisfaction cannot be a defense to the FLSA claim.”
• \It is a long-held view that FLSA rights cannot be abridged or otherwise waived by contract because such private settlements would allow parties to circumvent the purposes of the statute by agreeing on subminimum wages.\
• “It is a long-held view that FLSA rights cannot be abridged or otherwise waived by contract because such private settlements would allow parties to circumvent the purposes of the statute by agreeing on subminimum wages.”
• “It is a long-held view that FLSA rights cannot be abridged or otherwise waived by contract because such private settlements would allow parties to circumvent the purposes of the statute by agreeing on sub-minimum wages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).