Laroque v. Domino's Pizza, LLC

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the merits of plaintiffs’ claim are not at issue in a motion for conditional certification”
• noting that plaintiffs have a minimal burden of showing they are similarly situated to the potential class members
• denying conditional certification of a class including employees at other locations because the plaintiffs’ support for the class was merely “a hearsay state ment that ha[d] been rebutted by the declar-ant”
• “The standard in this circuit is clear; the merits of plaintiffs’ claim are not at issue in a motion for conditional certification”
• “Although plaintiffs’ burden at this stage of the proceedings is modest, the court cannot justify certifying a class of plaintiffs, likely numbering in the hundreds, on the basis of such thin factual support”
• “after discovery, a second inquiry begins, generally precipitated by a defendant’s motion for decertification, in which the court examines with a greater degree of scrutiny whether the members of the plaintiff class-including those who have opted in-are similarly situated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).