Jeremy Rashad Riding v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), which originally had the authority now conferred by the MCA on the Secretary of Transportation, possessed the power to regulate the hours of loaders
• observing that “[i]t is the character of the activities rather than the proportion of either the employee’s time or of his activities” that controls
• observing that “[i]t is the character of the activities rather than the proportion of either the employ ee’s time or of his activities” that controls
• stating that “it is the intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act to give full recognition to the safety program of the Motor Carrier Act”
• noting that courts do not quantify “how frequently employees must engage in the sort of work that would qualify for the [MCE]”
• explaining that the “[MCA] exemption was adopted . . . to avoid any problems that might arise if two government agencies had overlapping jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).