Eagle Rock Timber, Inc. v. Teton County

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “within the tests of coverage fashioned by Congress, the [FLSA] has been construed liberally to apply to the furthest reaches consistent with congressional direction”
• non-professional employees of defendant held to be “engaged in commerce” as that term is used in 29 U.S.C. §§ 206, 207 (Supp.1975)
• “To determine [whether employees are engaged in commerce], we focus on the activities of the employees.”
• a prisoner who did odd jobs for the town’s Mayor was not engaged in commerce
• “the [FLSA] has been construed liberally to apply to the furthest reaches consistent with congressional direction”
• exemptions from FLSA’s reach must be narrowly construed against the employer in order to further Congress’ goal of affording broad federal employment protection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).