Belinda Faye Lyle v. Food Lion, Incorporated v. Wayne Tew, Third Party Wayne Tew v. Food Lion, Incorporated

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• concluding that “it was an abuse of discretion for the district court . . . to forgo the lodestar approach and to calculate reasonable attorney’s fees by adopting instead the attorney’s customary contingent-fee arrangement”
• concluding that “it was an abuse of discretion for the district court . . . to forgo the lodestar approach and to calculate reasonable attorney’s fees by adopting instead the attorney’s customary contingent-fee arrangement”
• finding that the FLSA “simply will not allow” an indemnity claim by an employer against an employee
• finding that the risk of counsel not being compensated in a case taken on a contingent 10 fee basis, standing alone, was not a sufficient ground for enhancing the lodestar fee
• affirming dismissal of an employer's counterclaim and third-party complaint for indemnity against the plaintiff for the plaintiff's FLSA claims
• affirming dismissal of an employer’s counterclaim and third-party complaint for indemnity against the plaintiff for the plaintiff’s FLSA claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).