Betty A. Simpson v. Merchants & Planters Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a violation of the Equal Pay Act is willful if the employer “act[ed] knowingly or with reckless disregard of whether the contested conduct was prohibited”
• stating that “if an employee can show that the employer willfully violated the Equal Pay Act, the statute of limitations is three years, rather than the presumptive two-year statute of limitations”
• rejecting defendant’s argument that percentage of attorney’s fees awarded should reflect the percentage of relief obtained versus the relief sought
• affirming finding of willfulness in a case brought under the Equal Pay Act, to which § 255(a) also applies
• detailing job capabilities of female employee in comparison to job capabilities of higher-paid male employee
• discussing attendance at after-hours events, in which both employees represented employer, in finding that the positions involved equal effort

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).