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· 5/14/1984

Louis Carter v. Dutchess Community College

Citations

  • 735 F.2d 8
  • 26 Wage & Hour Cas. (BNA) 1239
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 22485

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that prosecutorial immunity applied to prosecutor’s 14 “conferring with potential witnesses for the purpose of determining whether to initiate 15 proceedings”
  • noting that payment of minimum wage to inmates by a community college employer “results in the elimination of unfair competition, not only among employers, but also among workers looking for jobs”
  • testifying that if he was the one there he would pay the employees
  • borrowing factors from Bonnette v. Cal. Health & Welfare Agency, 704 F.2d 1465, 1470 (9th Cir. 1983)
  • declining to find “ultimate” control as dispositive but rather asking “who exercises substantial control over a worker”
  • setting forth the “economic reality” test for determining whether an employment relationship exists under the FLSA

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Judges: Timbers, Kearse, Pierce

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