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Court of Claims· 7/24/1989

Nerseth v. United States

Citations

  • 17 Cl. Ct. 660
  • 29 Wage & Hour Cas. (BNA) 639
  • 1989 U.S. Claims LEXIS 146
  • 1989 WL 81648

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that plaintiffs in an FLSA case were not entitled to equitable tolling where plaintiffs received paychecks that did not contain the overtime compensation required by law
  • “Application of th[e] doctrine [of equitable tolling] requires that a plaintiff [be] excusably unaware of the existence of his cause of action at the time it accrues.”
  • “There is nothing in the language of the Act that would support plaintiffs’ belief that the pursuit of administrative relief is a prerequisite to bringing an action in this Court.”
  • plaintiff must remain ignorant without fault or want of diligence on his part

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Judges: Napier

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