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· 5/9/2006

Joseph Thorne v. All Restoration Svcs. Inc.

Citations

  • 448 F.3d 1264
  • 11 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 773
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 11469
  • 2006 WL 1228863

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an employee who purchases items from Home Depot is not engaged in commerce even if Home Depot purchased the items from an out-of-state wholesaler
  • holding that, for an employee to be “engaged in commerce” under the FLSA, “he must be directly participating in the actual movement of persons or things in interstate commerce by (i
  • holding that an employee’s purchases of goods and materials for work using an employer’s credit card did not show that the employee was “engaged in commerce”
  • holding those “working for an instrumentality of interstate commerce, e.g., transportation or communication industry employees” are covered individually by FLSA
  • finding that a plaintiff did not fall within the FLSA where he “did not produce evidence that he corresponded with merchants outside the state ... using the mail, phone, or fax”
  • doubting that credit card transactions alone could constitute an instrumentality of interstate commerce

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Judges: Birch, Marcus, Nangle

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