Leroy F. Thomas, Jr. v. Howard University Hospital Howard University

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• holding that “[l]iability for liquidated damages follows, unless the employer has a certain kind of excuse—a reasonable belief that its acts or omissions did not violate the law”
• the district court was required to address arbitrability of the plaintiff’s claims as a threshold question prior to considering the plaintiff’s motion for class certification
• “A court cannot evaluate the ‘reasonableness’ of an employer’s belief that its ‘act or omission was not a violation’ without first identifying the ‘act or omission.’ ”
• “In most instances an employer will be able to satisfy [the FLSA’s] ‘reasonable grounds’ requirement only if it has relied on a reasonable, albeit erroneous, interpretation of the [statute] or of the regulations issued thereunder.”

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