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· 11/27/1945

Pentland v. Dravo Corporation

Citations

  • 152 F.2d 851
  • 1945 U.S. App. LEXIS 3174

How courts have described this case

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  • characterizing the FLSA collective action as a form of permissive joinder or a spurious 23 class action rather than a “true class suit”
  • in a collective action, the plaintiff, whose individual claim was dismissed at summary judgment, could not show that she was similarly situated to other potential § 216(b
  • “It may be admitted that the terminology shocks the aesthetic sense and the succession of adjectives before the noun shows the poverty of imagination in choice of terms characteristic of the legal profession.”

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Judges: Albert Lee Stephens, Goodrich, and McLaughlin, Circuit Judges

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