Guillen v. Marshalls of MA, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that store manager’s evidence provided “virtually no basis on which to conclude” that he was similarly situated to all store managers nationwide
• denying conditional certification where plaintiff lacked personal knowledge about employees’ compensation at stores other than those at which he worked
• requiring plaintiffs to show more than “extremely thin” evidence of plaintiffs’ and the proposed class’s similar job responsibilities
• “Orders authorizing notice are often referred to as orders ‘certifying’ a collective action, ever! though the FLSA does not contain a certification requirement.”
• at the conditional certification stage, plaintiff must make “a modest factual showing sufficient to demonstrate that they and potential plaintiffs together were victims of a common policy or plan that violated the law.”
• denying certification at the first stage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).