Molina v. First Line Solutions LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “similarly situated” standard under § 216(b) is “less stringent” than the requirements for joinder of parties under Rule 20
• holding that the \core elements of [a] federal promissory estoppel\ defense to an FLSA exemption, include reasonable, detrimental reliance by the proponent of estoppel
• explaining that Section 216(b)’s “similarly situated” requirement “has been held to be less stringent than that required for joinder of parties under [Rule 20]”
• limiting the opt-in notice to the Chicago area because the evidence was limited to Chicago territory employees
• declining to skip first step where parties did not yet have all the information that would be available to them once they knew who would opt in to the case
• declining to skip first step where parties did not yet have all the information that would be available to them once they knew who would opt in to the case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).