Fasanelli v. Heartland Brewery, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that it is permissible to rely on “pleadings and affidavits, which necessarily contain unproven allegations”
• finding that declarations of nine employees, including plaintiff, was sufficient to infer common off-the-clock policies
• noting that it is permissible to rely on “pleadings and affidavits, which necessarily contain unproven allegations”
• noting that “the appropriate inquiry at this pre-discovery stage is whether the putative class alleged by Plaintiffs is similarly situated based on the pleadings and any affidavits”
• noting that employees can maintain a collective action against an employer where the employees are (1) “similarly situated,” and (2) consent to become a party in writing
• noting that “the appropriate inquiry at this pre- discovery stage is whether the putative class alleged by Plaintiffs is similarly situated based on the pleadings and any affidavits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).