John A. Allen v. Atlantic Richfield Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that language in complaint that plaintiffs sought to represent “other similarly situated Atlantic Richfield employees” not dispositive on question of collective action
• concluding that FLSA collective action procedures are inapplicable when “each claimant is a named plaintiff” and thus the whole lawsuit “consists of a number of individual actions, not a collective or class action”
• distinguishing between a collective, subject to § 216(b) standards, and joined plaintiffs, subject to the Rule 20(a) standard
• allowing 22 people to join FLSA suit as named plaintiffs, but emphasizing that the case never became a collective action because no unnamed plaintiff ever opted in to the suit
• “This suit consists of a number of individual actions, not a collective or class action subject to sections [216(b) ] and 256.”
• “This suit consists of a number of individual actions, not a collective or class action subject to sections [216(b) ] and 256.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).