Merriweather v. Western Union Telegrah Co.

How courts have described this case

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• collecting Eighth Circuit cases finding no preemption of state common law claims and that FLSA does not provide the exclusive remedy for its violations
• “To the extent Plaintiffs rely on Defendant's employee handbook as creating the contractual rights they claim … the Supreme Court holds that the exception to the well-pleaded complaint rule does not apply to breaches of individual employment contracts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).